http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Andy-Mac/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Andy Mac en-us Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:10:52 +0000 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:10:52 +0000 Hello Herersquos my August news update from India then. Staying in Dharemsala where I came back in July I ended up attending a meditation course. I wanted to relax a bit after coming through Kashmir and doing some pretty intensive traveling. The course turned out to be really intense you start your day at 4AM it lasted 10 days and it was completely silent. No distractions your not allowed bo http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Uttarakhand/blog-435049.html HelloThis could be the start of a routine here maybe. Julyrsquos been a busy month over here Irsquove spent it in the North of India avoiding the worst of the heat whilst the plains and the South cool now the monsoon rains have arrived. The start of July I was in Manali saying goodbye to the last of the wedding folks going back home. As I mentioned last time I bumped into an old school frie http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-424061.html Hi guysI hope your all well Been awhile but this seems as good a time as any for a little update on what Irsquom up to. Irsquove been in India for 2 weeks now and Irsquom really enjoying it. Irsquod heard so much about what to expect the massive culture shock the sore stomachs and the searing midsummer heat Irsquove been very lucky so far I have to say Irsquove managed to avoi http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Himachal-Pradesh/Manali/blog-414461.html first of all merry christmas. I'm in Laos at the moment and just had a fantastic christmas in Luang Prabang. The internet is really bad here which has been really nice actually because I've hardly spent anytime online I've been able just to get away from everything. I'm afriad I have no photos to put up I'll tell you about that later but i just wanted to copy and paste quickly some stuff I had http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Anlong-Veng/blog-357510.html its 18.31 and I'm already snuggly aboard the top bunk of my sleeper to Da Nang. It leaves at 19.00 and won't arrive till midday tomorrow. I've been dreading this journey it's my second train journey in Vietnam the first was awful I got ripped off when buying my ticket from the Tourist Information place. I was sleeping 8 foot off the ground on what felt like a plank of wood literally a foot and http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-347030.html Hey Update time again I'm having a lovely relaxing day so it's quite nice to collect my thoughts of the last 10 days or so. Firstly I've met some interesting people so far. This evening an Irish guy checked into the dorm and we got chatting for a couple of minutes and after him hearing my Scottish accent he said he did the West Highland Way earlier in the summer. I asked him if he went into th http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Yunnan/blog-341251.html Hi GuysI hope your all well and the weathers not as bad as it is here.That's right it's actaully raining here. Two nights ago I crossed theTropic of Cancer on the overnight bus and it hasn't stopped rainingsince It's been hard to catch up on news here apart from the stockmarkets in HK so thanks for some of those updates i head Andy Murraydid well and Celtic got gubbed in the Champions League http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guangdong/Guangzhou/blog-341238.html Hi everyonesorry for the impersonalness of this but I just don't have the time to write individual emails im afraid. I've only been gone 5 days now but it seems so much longer Arriving into Hong Kong reminded me so much of New York I think the skyscrapers are the biggest parallel but also this will probably be my biggest adventure since then. So far it's gone pretty smoothly with only a coup http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Hong-Kong/blog-341235.html