Nothing can prepare you for arrival in India. No matter how many stories you have read or experiences you have heard no preparation can really help for what can await you in this amazingly diverse and huge country. Our arrival to Bangalore airport was without much hassle and we were surprisingly greeted with a chilly night and cool breeze passing through. In the city centre it was difficult to find much around at night so we settled for the nearest hotel we could find even though it was quite a dump for quite a lot of money. The first thing to [View Full Entry]

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Occasionally on my many travels, plenty of travellers would ask me curiously what is the best place I have been to. Of course, this is a question that is extremely difficult to answer for many reasons. For one, you may have had an amazing experience in a place due to the people you happened to be with or just bump into. Perhaps it was due to your particular state of mind you were in at the the time or even something simple as that the weather was amazing that could even turn a dreary city into paradise. You could say it [View Full Entry]

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We powered down the Pacific highway towards our next destination of Sydney at lightning speed. The wide open Australian road made it easy to drive quickly and with little hassle (Apart from the odd speed camera!) There is an indescribable feeling of freedom and power that comes with having your own car. The ability to go wherever you want whenever you want to with one arm hanging out the window, the stereo blazing there is nothing quite like it. With my hair blowing back in the wind it almost felt as if something was wrong. This was all too easy, [View Full Entry]

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It had been a long and eventful day before I even realised I was on my way back to Australia after so long being out of the country. Four years had past in an almost similar fashion to the past few days in transit, a tornado of flighty, transient memories of great sceneries, interesting people and world ever full of mystery. It was only now a few minutes before touchdown in Darwin, memories from a further distant past came flooding back. I was home. Darwin is not my home city as it is still thousands of kilometres away in this vast [View Full Entry]

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"We are not trying to selling the tour. We are only give information on how to enjoying our country. Many people will trying to offer better price, but we can giving happy good time and looking after important tourist. We looking after you like family so have to paying higher price, we respecting the tourist so please taking the tour with us..." It had been almost a week of a whirlwind of travel. Intermixing between dusty polluted over crowded cities like Lima, Peru. Then heading westward and north visiting my cousin in cold and chilly San Francisco before finally touching down [View Full Entry]

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We were awoken on New years day when the sun was barely rising over the horizon. It was dim and grey with a slight patter of rain tapping on the old tin roof that gave us shelter. Pekon Soi had arrived early looking bright and cheery as he always does and I started to wonder if he even sleeps at all. We were all still a bit dreggy from the previous nights festivities which concluded with some celebratory new years eves cheers and beers, effigy burning and even an alcohol induced fist fight amongst the locals showed that even in [View Full Entry]

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Can you imagine a place in this world today where money is no longer needed, where a endless varieties of fresh fruit trees are growing surrounded by crystal clear water filled with ample fish that are swimming around your ankles? It almost sounds like a dream to find a place where we are not caught in the endless monetary trap of buying a selling and worrying about bills and car payments working in a job we don’t even like. We thought we found this place in San Francisco yet the local people here are heading the other way. They want all [View Full Entry]

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Pucallpa is in the heart of Peru. It lies about 1500kms from the coastal capital of Lima and is known as the gateway to the Amazon. It is on the river Ucayali which connects to Brazil and the mighty Amazon River. My main reason for coming to this area has been due to my long time curiosity with medicinal plants that come from this area and shamans that use these plants to cure apparent life threatening diseases and to gain knowledge directly from the deep states of mind some of these plants supposedly induce. Other bloggers such as Joel Harri [View Full Entry]

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After crossing the border of Bolivia and entering Peru I passed the usual passport formalities without any hassle. I board a camioneta and head out towards the city of Puno. The area is dry and arid and there are low lying mountains spreading out towards the horizon. The air is cool and crisp and rather thin due to the extreme altitude almost reaching 4000 metres. I’m surprised that it has not affected me a great deal apart from feeling like I have smoked a pack of camel cigarettes after merely walking up a small hill. To my right spans the grand [View Full Entry]

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I couldnt really understand what was going through my mind when I decided to hand over the cash to the tour agency operator "cheap and nasty" tours. Bells were ringing relentlessly in my head and I was even hearing the voice of the robot from Lost in space saying "Danger, danger Will Robinson" But I just wasnt listening, surely I should have investigated this further, asked more questions and found out more information but they were good sellers convincing me that this trip would be the best ever. In a matter of hours me and six hour couragous crew members were [View Full Entry]

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