When I first decided to come to Ladakh, it was only to avoid the rain. Monsoon is hitting Asia pretty hard now, and believe me, it's grim :O/ If it wasn't for the rain, I'd have headed down to South East Asia and never discovered this place......what a shame that would've been. When the time came, I was ready to leave Nepal.......in fact I couldn't wait! I hadn't really given any thought to the 12 hour stopover I had in Dehli on route. On the plane, the prospect of 12 hours in Dehli airport hit home. I had a good book, [View Full Entry]

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Hello! Wow, been a while since I updated this. Still, better late than never I guess! So Nepal……mmmm. Bit disappointing in the end to be truthful. Had high hopes when I got there, but was pretty glad to leave a couple of months later. I went trekking for a couple of weeks at the end of May…..up to Llangtang, which is just north east of Kathmandu; West of Everest in the Himalayan range. It was pretty good, but not quite as good as I’d hoped. Originally, I was going to go without a guide. The paths around that area are pretty [View Full Entry]

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Hello from Nepal!! Wow, what a journey. I set off from varanassi assuming a 6 hour train journey, followed by 3 hours bus to the border and then a 5 hour bus the other side to Kathmandu. Funnily enough, it didn't quite work out like that! The train from Varanassi was supposed to leave at 12.30 am, but didn't turn up til 2.30 in the morning and then took about 8/9 hours. I met a load of Koreans on the train and shared a jeep with them to the border, which was relative luxury compared to the rest of my trip! [View Full Entry]

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Unfortunately, the Andaman's didn't last as long as planned. The weather moved in and turned the paradise into a washout and it was time to go. It was fantastic while it lasted though. I got my Padi open water and advanced courses and got to do a few fun dives to which were great. The diving there is fantastic. I even saw turtles which was one of my dreams. The biggest one was I guess not quite a metre and a half long and almost a metre wide and the smallest one was a baby, about half a metre long. The [View Full Entry]

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Hello again! Just a quick entry because the internet here is dial up only and hence v v slow! Bit like life in general on the andamans.... It's all back to basics! Things here are really expensive too, including the internet, so if I don't mail anyone in the next few wks, it's only because I'm trying to cut down the amount of time I spend on here......emailing take three times as long and you're paying about 3 times the price for it! Things in the shops are more expensive here too. I've been told it's because everything is imported over [View Full Entry]

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Hello guys! How u all doing? Not long since the last entry I know. Didn't I do well! I'm going to make a concerted effort to do this more regularly so I don't have to write a book each time! My last week in Hampi flew by. I'd seen most of the sights already, so I was really just chilling out. I hired a bike to go to the lake for a swim, which I think I mentioned before, but that was fab. Really necessary too, as it was getting so hot, and the lake was a fab way to cool [View Full Entry]

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Hello! How is everyone?? Been a while again. Not sure where the time goes over here. It just flies by from one wk to the next. All good though. Having a fantastic time. Last time I wrote, I was in Pondicherry. I only spent a few days there in the end. One of the days I cycled up to Auroville. That's an amazing place. It's got such a lovely peaceful feel about the place. I can see why people leave their everyday lives in the western world to go and live there. I think I mentioned volunteering there. It turned out, [View Full Entry]

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Hello again! Cochin proved to be a good choice......not the main town, but Fort Cochin which is one of the islands of the coast there. I say Island, I think Fort Cochin is actually connected to the mainland, unlike Wellington and Viper Island which are only reachable by boat. The bus ride there was also pretty hair raising. They have some busses over here which they call 'superfast', which basically means they're stopping for no bugger. It certainly was a 'superfast' ride and you could certainly feel the breeze on this one! Luckily they had quite tall seats in the bus [View Full Entry]

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Hello again! Haven't written again for a little while.....oooops! but there is a reason for that this time! ........... Verkala Syndrome! You'll be glad to hear I'm fully recovered now and actually managed to escape this morning! I'm not exactly sure when I picked it up....but i had it bad! I was only going to stay there for a few days initially, (being that I'd spent most of the last 2 months on a beach already) but something strange happened! Made my landlords laugh a lot though....think they thought I was completely bonkers! It was a homestay this time....ie renting a [View Full Entry]

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Hello again! Wel, here I am back in India once more after a month in Sri Lanka. I have to say, sri lanka was fab. What a country, it has everything. Ancient cities and history, beautiful hill countries and tea plantations, amazing culture, beaches, jungle and wildlife parks....oh and plenty of really nice tea! Anything you could want really. It's also really English!! You can realy see the signs of the English colonisation there...from the food in the supermarkets to the architecture! It was really nice in that respect. It's also really green.....probably something to do with all that rain we [View Full Entry]

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