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The flight from Karachi to Tehran was 6 AM in the morning, with 11 hours of connection waiting in Doha by Qatar airway, a cheap flight by USD 150, so Madeeha and her mother took me to the airport at 3 AM, so basically I didn't sleep that night, so my plan was to sleep in Doha airport during my 11 hours of waiting time, but I couldn't because I met a Chinese guy going to Chile with the connection in Brazil, he hadn't the return ticket, so the Brazilian custom didn't allow him to board, later I knew the Brazilian custom is asking for the return ticket because a lot of people go and stay in Brazil, my lovely country! Anyway, the Chinese guy didn't get the connection flight to Brazil at first moment and ... read more

Now I am back to my journey, I went to Xinjiang, the province of China from extreme west, gateway to Pakistan. Xinjiang province has huge area, also a Muslim province, so people there are different from Han ethnic, they are Uyghur, and the most of them look like western people, even some of them has green eyes. This time I went there with Hao, a friend from last company where I was working in China, she got a 9 days vacation, we got a train from Shanghai to Lanzhou, then tried to get a train from Lanzhou to Turpan, but that was impossible, because of holiday so many Chinese were moving, there was no train ticket for next 5 days, so we had no choose, only by bus for a 22 hours of journey. Just to ... read more

My passport is back from Brazil with Pakistan visa, now just waiting for a better weather in Xinjiang, my plan is to restart my journey after March 15th, maybe 20th depending on the weather. So now I am going to Malaysia and Philippines for 10 days with my wife. Our goal was only Boracay of Philippines, but the air tickets was really cheap, so we decided to stop in Kuala Lumpur for couple days. Malaysia is a Islamic country, but with a strong religion and ethnic mix, there are a lot of Chinese and Indian, you can see Bhudism and Hinduism beside the Islamism there, because of that cultural mix, the Malaysian language skill is also very strong, for a example, the Malaysian guys, Chris and Weng, who I met in Laos, they are Malaysian Chinese, ... read more

Crossing the border from Sunauli (India) to Bhairawa (Nepal), everything was fine, officer from Nepal was very friendly to make our visa on arrival, and no bribe. Our plan was to stay one night in Bhairawa, but we got a night bus to Kathmandu, and that wasn't sleep bus, the road was horrible, so we didn't sleep well, and we arrived in Kathmandu at 4 AM, we didn't print out the Kathmandu map, but there was a guy from Norway in the same bus, he had a guide book, so we went to a hotel together sharing the taxi, that guy from Norway is very different, he looks like army people, and carrying a locked metal box with him, that was a first time I saw a backpacker with metal box putting the important things inside. ... read more

Before I start the Myanmar story, I will write something about Bangkok first, after Laos I stayed only 2 nights in Bangkok, just for transit, but there were some interesting things to describe. Actually my main goal in Bangkok was to fix my Swatch watch, that had too much rain in Vietnam, and completely stopped in Cambodia. Actually I found a Swatch maintenance center, but they said they can't fix my watch, because there is no way to open it, and I can keep it as collection if I want it... Well, I will keep it for a while. Bangkok was still flood in some places, really flood, and I met a interesting guy from Australia, named Jason, he have been travelling for 11 years, a lot of stories, he will go to Brazil by boat ... read more