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| 9th July 2009 savannah | - From: Aruba - Desert in an Island These rock formations are made by tourists and it is said if you make a tower, come back and find it, you will have good luck forever. |
| 19th October 2008 Travel'n On Radio Show | - From: Wadi Rum - red sand, red rocks and red faces Excellent account of your experience. We should talk off-line about having you on our show. www.traveln-on.com |
| 25th August 2008 Brian Miller | Strange Rock Formations - From: Aruba - Desert in an Island The strange rock formations that you comment about , are simply markers. Local fishermen would come to that part of the island and if they caught good fish , they would leave stones there to mark the spot. Eventually tourists like your self and I saw these strange formations and many visitors replicated it. Imagine how hard this made it for the local fishermen. |
| 19th March 2008 Thomas O'Brien | Rock piles - From: Aruba - Desert in an Island Hi, I saw these rock piles in Peru myself. From whatI recall they were built as prayers to mother nature....kinda like lighting a candle in a Christian church. I've seen the little rock piles in a few places though - like Cambodia and China. |
| 19th February 2008 Remski | - From: Amsterdam in a day FYI: Amsterdam lies also in the province of North Holland, just like Zaandam and Zaanse Schans. |
| 10th February 2008 Gezunda | - From: Amsterdam in a day Excellent story Kit_t. I like pictures of food too. Most people think I'm nutz zooming in on the food on the table. Pain in the backside at the time, but a great memory for the future. Thanks. |
| 2nd October 2007 dave t | good grief! - From: Horsing around in Inner Mongolia sheesh, this sounds like a terrible time!! Teach you to go on an organised tour :) I'm sure you had fun anyway though. |
| 30th August 2007 Muyassar | - From: Tashkent - so where are the Uzbeks? vouvvv our Chorsu Bazar...thanks a lot for beautiful fotos..i am missing so much our simple people....mocking is not uzbek culture...it doesnt belong to our culture...i see it for the first time ..only singers do so.. |
| 28th August 2007 Muyassar | i miss my motherland - From: To Samarkand - Capital of the Romantic Silk Road hi!! u have taken a lot of beautiful pictures , although i am not from samarkand ..(I am from tashkent,capital) i was there only one time..it is amazing..i am missing my motherland.... u have right ..shashlik tastes really good.... |
| 27th August 2007 Wang | Taliban - From: A short stop in Hyderabad Yeah...Anything that says Taliban is good is a terrorist. Btw, you can see a lot of people with Asiatic (or mongoloid ) features even in Poland , Slovakia and even in Greece. That is courtesy to Ghengis Khan. He paved his seeds till Eastern Europe.. :) |
| 20th August 2007 kit_t | re: tourist vs locals - From: Samarkand - Daniel's tomb, mosques and of course more food just to clarify (see my comment inline of the blog as well) - I perfectly understand to inflate prices for tourists, but a 40X hike for a single building that can be seen in 5 mins is a bit steep. If you were talking about something like the Taj Mahal, maybe its justifiable. |
| 20th August 2007 Dave T | tourist vs locals - From: Samarkand - Daniel's tomb, mosques and of course more food I'm embarrassed that you didn't understand why they needed to rip off the tourists while keeping it cheap for the locals. As a tourist, paying the fees to the local tourist authority is a good thing, as it goes towards the upkeep. It also keeps the price low for the poor people of the country who can't really afford it. |
| 19th August 2007 JimBoCash | tourist fee - From: Samarkand - Daniel's tomb, mosques and of course more food enjoyed your 1st day travelogue. As for tourist feeling ripped off: one has to be forgiving during travels to these impoverished countries, who depend on the tourist currency not only to feed their families but in a large number of cases, upkeep the sites, when the govt. doesn't pay. |
| 26th July 2007 adrian | there just haters - From: Its a truly Great Wall of China they are just hating on the fact that you are black and are with someone perrity like her |
| 29th May 2007 Sherita | Ha - From: Airport Escapades Urumqi to Tashkent Height and smell advantage....classic! |
| 17th May 2007 David Teo | Are you a Location Scout? - From: To Samarkand - Capital of the Romantic Silk Road My company is in need of good location scout. Maybe with your camera in hands, I could use you next time...hehehe... Uzbek huh... I think the VISA is worth the wait... |
| 17th May 2007 Bridget | Wanna go..... - From: To Samarkand - Capital of the Romantic Silk Road Well, another exciting read. Kit are you working for Lonely Planet Guides? Perhaps you should send in your CV? This is somewhere that I have always wanted to go and really want to visit now! It looks and sounds amazing! Thanks for the info guys!! |
| 17th May 2007 Bridget | WOW! - From: Airport Escapades Urumqi to Tashkent Well, that was a fun read! Thanks for all the laughs Kit! Sounds like you and Mel have some stories to tell the grand kids! It is fun to read about other people's airport experiences! After living in China for 2 years we can all relate to the "granny with her trolley" and the "loudly snoring guy on aeroplane" and many more like that. |
| 8th April 2007 kairouan Gladiator from the hearts of the U.Kingdom | A total ignorant person. - From: Mosques and stuff Why do you have to go to a holy place and spell your curse and ignorance on its land?It is useless to educate you now.You did go there to buy and haggle not looking for a holy city.Because your are impure,you found the same.You were there just as a mistake.Get a guide next time,or i think you better not go again as you might get hurt...ignorant travellers really,Australian my ar ss. |
| 24th November 2006 I will pay mucho dinero | Kill baby pandas - From: Going gaga over the giant pandas My wife tickled me 10 times, and I threatened I would hire someone to kill 10 baby pandas for each time she tickled me. I will pay $100 per baby panda head. Any takers? |
| 12th November 2006 kit_t | Mongoloid people - From: A short stop in Hyderabad We actually did realise that there were mongoloid people in the north of india, however, the comment in this blog was a passing joke intended for friends and family that would understand. I'm sorry this offended you. |
| 30th September 2006 Xian | LOoser - From: A short stop in Hyderabad You really need to do some background check before visiting a place. Infact there are quite many mongloid inidans in India. But ofcourse, you like most whites think that you are supereior and in reality just ignorant. So yeah they are indian...and go to HEll. Trust me you would do the world justice!!! |
| 2nd July 2006 anonymous | Dooood - From: A Day in the Life of a Beijing Alien yo dood we r trying to find info on you for mag |
| 21st June 2006 Tenzin | - From: Snooping around the Dalai Lamas house Now, when I comment on how monks ought to behave, I am not trying to defend their behavior. In fact, I'm just trying to offer you an insight into what their life must be like. A very wise woman (my mother) told me once that they are just humans with very human weaknesses and desires. Life is a constant struggle in that they have to try and suppress their wants and needs. Life is a temptress. In his human form even His Holiness admits to fighting temptations and these guys are just amateurs on a long journey to nirvana. So grant them some compassion and understanding. I hope your journey to Tibet was otherwise fun. And hey, you never know. He could be text debating another monk somewhere...or texting his girlfriend as you suspect. I hope not the latter because that by default is not monkhood. Enh! Sometimes I don't understand my own culture, but I know for the most part it is beautiful and very likeable. Anyway, on behalf of the six, five, four (??) million Tibetans, my utmost apologies for the shock factor. I hope you enjoyed Tibet and please come again! :) Tenzin |
| 25th April 2006 Varonica | Sucks - From: Highlights of India He's right this website does suck I asked for sites to see in India not for things to do. If this is things that you should see. This is dumb thats like saying oh yah MacCdonalds you have to see it, it's so historical!!! |
| 29th March 2006 bobby | this - From: Wow look at all the Yaks This is very NOT useful. ok it is |
| 7th March 2006 Arina | ... - From: Highlights of India ...what!? |
| 2nd February 2006 harry | rude - From: Mosques and stuff I totally agree with the last comment, when you visit other countries try and show some respect and be open minded to other cultures, if you cannot manage even this small thing stay home in your own little world. Having visited Tunisa i found it a fasinating country with some of the most friendly people i have had the pleasure of meeting. |
| 31st January 2006 who cares | w/e - From: Its a truly Great Wall of China I dont really care about your trip to china. it isnt helping me on my english homework at all. |
| 27th January 2006 karina | Why? - From: Its a truly Great Wall of China No offense but I asked the computer 4 "why the china wall was builtt?'' Not about your trip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Well anyway " NQV"NADA QUE VER |
| 29th December 2005 I don't have guts for this | comments - From: A short stop in Hyderabad wtf, just cause they say Muslim.....I bet you made all the shit up about the whole conversation.....then again there are some "people" that are idiots like that, that think terriosim is good. As a muslim born and raised in Dallas,TX, most of the muslims are not like that. I can say however mainly the Middle East are like that. Of course Muslim does not equal terrorist! Peace |
| 22nd December 2005 anonymous | - From: Mosques and stuff I FOUND YOUR DESCRIPTION TO BE VERY OFFENSIVE. AT THE VERY LEAST YOU COULD SHOW RESPECT FOR SOMEONE ELSES CULTURE. YOU SHOULD PROBABLY STAY HOME AND NOT VISIT ANYWHERE AS YOU CANNOT APPRECIATE ANYTHING.YOU FOOL. |
| 22nd December 2005 Prateek | Knowledge Add-on - From: Udaipur and Ranakpur Well the yellow stuff that has been mentioned above isnt really made of cow dung or something like that. It is actually made from the paste of Sandal wood. Our traveler would have been really unlucky if he got pasted with something otherwise. And thanks for considering the temple beautiful, it really is :-) |
| 21st October 2005 poo bum wee head | your website sux - From: Highlights of India i would like 2 say that u'r website sux and u should accually put in sights to see in india not wat is good 2 do in india i have pretty much made myself clear '~your website sux loser!!!!~'from the bestest chick in the world!!!!!!!!:) |
| 25th September 2005 paul | enjoy - From: Snooping around the Dalai Lamas house i don't know how i came across your journal, but have really got a kick out of your delightful commentary (no b.s.....my kind of people!) also came across another site w/ some heavy duty reading material that might be of interest. it goes into a 'dark side' of tibetan buddhism that some germans wrote that were formerly into that stuff until they 'learned too much'. you think the statues can get scary...breeze through some real scary stuff: http://www.trimondi.de/SDLE/Index.htm boy, i wouldn'tve lasted...i hate walking...but i do love food! happy trails, paul |
| 3rd September 2005 chris | embarrassed for you - From: Terracotta warriors and steamed buns Your travel blog made me upset to know that such an uneducated person had the experience to travel to such an amazing place as China. |
| 25th August 2005 tom | chinese people - From: A short stop in Hyderabad I am surprised at ur lack of knowledge in regards to the presence of people from the northeast of india who have mongoloid features and not everyone in this world who has mongoloid features is chinese. the dance performnace that u saw in the film studio was from them and not the chinese |
| 23rd August 2005 oli b | yo yo - From: Terracotta warriors and steamed buns yo yo, check it out this is oli b in da usaaaaaaaaaai!!!!! |
| 30th July 2005 jubal fernandes | - From: This city smells and by the way, i've read your equally biased comments about tunisia. is there any place in the world that you like? apart from where ever it is that you live now. it seems to me that your one heck of a traveller, by your comments you work as a food and safety inspector right? |
| 30th July 2005 jubal fernandes | - From: This city smells ridiculously biased comments, but just what one would expect from a first generation australian. :) thambi, how long has it been since your oh so clean ancestors migrated to a developed country? |
| 6th July 2005 quintessential | amazing ! - From: Holy Cow its Holy Varanasi Hi, its amazing to know that you could make most of it in Varanasi in just few Hrs of time.. ! I really enjoyed the description and Thankx for the nice pictures and hilarious ( some ) captions to them :) |
| 9th May 2005 anonymous | Could it be they were staring because... - From: Racist Beijing taxi drivers!! you are such a good looking brother-in-law :) - Dige |
| 7th May 2005 anonymous | Nightlife - From: A short stop in Hyderabad Not only the beautifull history is worth the trouble the nightlife is very good also. It is dirty cheap and very much fun in the crowded and awesome designed places! - anonymous |
| 24th April 2005 anonymous | - From: Way too close to the crocs Enjoyed reading your blog. Very well written. Some suggestions on taking elephant pictures: 1. Elephant with both front legs in the air 2. Elephant with both rear feet in the air and the best 3. Elephant with all 4 in the air!1 Can you do this? If you have missed it, you can have another chance. You can do this in good old Sri lanka Dad |
| 22nd April 2005 anonymous | The Rat children rule - From: Tajjing the Taj Mahal Love your commentary...makes my day...I know, I am easily amused and have no life. Plus now you can feel popular because you have 1 comment - Desiree |
| 8th April 2005 anonymous | The beauty of hyderabad - From: A short stop in Hyderabad It seems like you`ve missed a lot in hyderabad. Having stayed for 22 years in hyderabad and coming to the USA after that, I still feel hyderabad has a lot to see than many of the major cities in USA. If you search for you can find a lot in a city that is 550 years old, untouched by the british and ruled by the nawabs for centuries. Hyderabad is the best showcase of the nawabian culture. The charminar, built by one of the nawabs, is like the statue of liberty for NYC. The old city, which is the older part of hyderabad has the chudi bazaar, where you can find some of the best jewellery in the world, everything made with hand to perfection. The birla mandir, a temple midst of the city is a quiet place to spend an evening. Hyderabadi food is one of the best you can find in the world. Hyderabad biryani, pani puri, chole batura...to name a few are mouth watering hyderbadi dishes. I bet you would find hyderabad interesting if you dig deeper. You can contact me at muralipadala@yahoo.com if you want to know more. Murali - Murali |
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