kate louise youson
im 27 years old i like lamb chops,yorkshire puddings and praun coctail flavoured crisps. i have a cat called erick and one called luigi and one large iguanna called mylo who likes to sleep in my wardrobe. im currently traveling scurriying from one place to another. i like guinea pigs called steve.shrimp
Travel Blog Posts
hiding in a tree whilst being charged at by wild rhinos..interesting!!
Published: December 6th 2009Asia » Nepal » Chitwan
April 16th 2008
Well what an experience!!! We took 2 guides and went walking through the Chitwan national park, the advice when we got off the canoe and into the scrub land was this..... "If a rhino charges at you run in a zig zag and try find a tree to hide behind" "If you see a tiger which is rare (but one killed 3 cows nearby the other day) don’t run, face the tiger and don’t look away" "If you see a bear there’s no point climbing a tree they can climb too stand back to back to each other" "Walk flat footed as there are many poisonous snakes and if one bites you then it can be a problem" ok ....so I’m basically walking through the jungle and scrub shitting myself that a tiger is going to ... read more
April 15th 2008
Oh god trekking again! So anyway since the snow capped mountains were miles away from Pokhara I talked jade into coming on a 4 day trek which is part of the Annapurna circuit to Poon hill. Now on the posters and postcards the views are stunning of the Annapurna range and the mountains are right in front of you. Our quest was to see the snow!!!! After researching the trek we discovered you could ride a pony there of ride one some of the way.......true kind of if you have 100 us dollars to spare for one day!!!! so we walked all the way, to be honest I don’t actually think a pony could take you all the way up the mountains as its really 2 and a half days solid uphill step after step mountain ... read more
April 3rd 2008
We only came here to see the rat temple really, id seen it on TV ages ago, isn’t really worth the 6 bus journey but it was fascinating to see hundreds and hundreds of cute little ratty’s scampering round the temple. The Indians believe they used to be story tellers and were reincarnated into rats after death, they put out lots of food for the little creatures.... read more
April 2nd 2008
Oh my god it’s so boiling hot here in the desert, so hot I slept on the roof of our room one day. We stayed her for 4 days in this huge sandcastle like fort. Rajasthan is a very different place everything is so old and ancient it’s like being in a fairy tale sometimes (apart from all the rubbish and shit everywhere). We made a friend who had a shop opposite our hotel he rented us a turban for our camel safari and all of the locals were highly amused at my magic...this magic invested in is defiantly a winner! We went on a camel safari, the first part of the day was rubbish to be honest, wandering through scrub land in the blistering heat on a camel that is way too wide for comfort. ... read more
holy festival and splattered in paint
Published: February 18th 2010Asia » India » Maharashtra » Mumbai
March 22nd 2008
Well I’ve finally got myself sort of clean, we have been at the holy festival which celebrates the coming of spring. Basically you get covered head to toe in powder paint, everyone is throwing the powder and water at you, and I got totally multicoloured all over and look like a cyber kid come my little pony moonshine! It was all good fun me and jade managed without knowing it to gatecrash someone’s private holy party, the ladies in their saris were throwing the colourful powder round whilst the guys were busy drenching everyone with jugs of water, lots of great fun however I will be having this cyber tinge for the rest of the week I think as it doesn’t wash out that easily. ... read more
March 20th 2008
We stayed at Tara's for a few days, Tara lived with Jill in her uni days and now lives at the international school for riding. I loved staying at this place, there were about 100 horses in the stables some were race horses, event horses and riding horses. Tara took me out a few times and it was great to be back in the saddle, the horses were amazing and really well looked after. It was really nice just to chill out too in the hammock and eat some normal food, had a great time here, Tara's mum was visiting and was amused by my magic tricks, and even more amused at the fact I managed to break one of them. Word spread between the maids and before you know it everyone wants to see this ... read more
March 19th 2008
Spent our time here mainly eating actually, it’s the first place in ages we found that served western food, the homemade chocolates are to diefor! It was quite amusing when we first arrived as we went to the YHA hostel however we were stood outside the food hall and at the back entrance so all we saw was food being hurled out of the back door and loads of rubbish, it wasn't until later we found the actually reception and found the room to be quite nice, we shared with a Canadian girl called Romy that we met on the steam train on the way up to Ooty. The train ride was good however we had to get up so early so unfortunately we all fell asleep half way through, it was great chugging through the ... read more
March 18th 2008
The bus ride up here was fantastic probably one of the best I’ve been on so far, literally scaling the huge mountains there were fantastic views across the valleys, and thank god we didn't have a lunatic bus driver. After traipsing round for hours looking for some good old western food (as advertised in the lonely planet) we found nothing, so palak pannier again for me (spinach and cheese curry) and painfully hot masala pad pads (popadom's). I got me and jade lost on one of my short cuts on the first night and spent the next day in bed sleeping as felt a bit ill. Jade on the other hand decided to go out and got stuck in some sort of monsoon with her trusty my blobby pack a Mac. We spent the night in ... read more
March 17th 2008
Ha ha ha I'm in the land of teletubbies, yes that's right rolling hills of tea plantations that look like green spongy carpets you could just dive into. Had a real laugh here met Stevie and Mary who were staying next door and spent a couple of nights chatting about this that and everything else. Went to the tea plantations and visited a damn, echo point and had chance to chat with the ladies that worked in the tea plantations. Was completely drawn in my Stevie and Marys magic tricks that they got from Ooty, will have to visit the magic man!!! ... read more
March 1st 2008
We found the most beautiful guest house here owned by anub a crazy eccentrick owner. Anub took us to his family village out in the forrest, we walked through,rice paddy fields and farmland to a natural spring where we filled up all the water containers. After we went to one of anubs houses and ate dinner, then went for a short treck through the forest to soak up the quitness and relax. We stayed one night outside of madikeri so we could go trecking, an israili girld ola joined us, the walk was up to the top of some massive hills the view were excellent. After we went to a waterfall and was glad of the cold fresh water to dunp my hot body in. We spent the afternoon trying to charm a rather good looking ... read more
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