Well, I officially failed at updating my blog at all during my stint in southeast Asia, and for that my deepest apologies. I just got off a 17 hour journey from Ko Phi Phi by boat and bus and am feeling a little knackered (great word, I am bringing it to North America). In my delusional half-awake state I am watching endless Caruso one liner's - http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=6497706401&h=98Nx3&u=lzZ8E. Ridiculous in any state of mind. So working backwards, we spent the past 10 days on Ko Phi Phi enjoying the beach, sunshine and hanging outside of 7-11. But really. B and I me [View Full Entry]

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At long last I decided to sit down to write a new entry. Of course today happens to be the day I choose the computer with the faulty keyboard, so advance apologies for typing errors. So since the last entry I've done 3 main excursions in Nepal: a 2 week hike up to Everest base camp (EBC); a few days in the second biggest city in Nepal called Pokhara; and a couple of days spend in the Chitwan National Park where I went on a jeep safari and washed a elephant. First off, the EBC trek. We flew to Lukla (elevation [View Full Entry]

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EVEREST! We are leaving tomorrow from Kathmadu to take on the base camp of Everest. Should be epic. We fly to Lukla in the early morn and after that it is a 15 day hike to base camp and a look out in the area, somewhere around 5350m of elevation. The guide book says that because there are so many valleys we will end up walking 9000m of elevation. I have pack as close to nothing as is possible when accounting for cold weather. Luckily the whole train is dotted with guest houses so we don't have to carry tents or [View Full Entry]

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I always knew I was a star. The fact that I can't sing, dance or act was never going to stop me from being an international sensation. And lo and behold, I found the perfect job... being an Extra! No acting required, just sit and make sure you don't look into the camera. Needless to say I excelled and am now one set closer to having MY picture splashed all over the tabloids. Back to the beginning then, lest the writers of my future biography (unauthorized of course) get it wrong. The week prior to Mumbai was spent in Goa on [View Full Entry]

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A sufficient amount of time has passed to make me feel guilty for neglecting my blog so here we go. I am back in Delhi after almost 3 weeks, many kilometers and many more forms of transit. I just uploaded a few pictures to this and the previous entries, it took forever and not I don't really feel like writing very much. So in a nut shell: Agra : The Taj everything and more than I could have ever expected, it blew me away. We also met some really funny Indian guys who seemed to be there for the sole purpose [View Full Entry]

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It's been a few days since my last entry and we have covered quite a bit of ground since then, so this is going to be quite long, apologies if you are trying to read this discreetly at work. After chilling in Pondi for 2 days (we went to check out Auroville which was pretty strange - some interesting philosophy but the giant gold orb in the middle freaked me out a bit) we took a bus to Mamallapuram. The bus was 2 hours and along the East Coast Road (ECR) which is a toll highway that runs along the Bay [View Full Entry]

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After spending a week in Varkalla on its amazing beach set against red cliffs LN and I decided it was time to move on with the "real India". Welcome to the overnight sleeper train, which might as well have been sold under the title coffin. I don't think I had ever experienced the chest-tightening fear known as claustrophobia before last night. After a few seconds of deep breathing I got over it, but the next 10 hours were anything but relaxing. No, at 3:30am I don’t appreciate being woken up and asked if I want some chai. Was it my earplugs [View Full Entry]

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I am in Alleppey at the moment, which claims to be the Venice of India because of the 900km of back water canals which it connects to. Not so much. It is still quite a cool city, lots going on but not overwhelming as I expect the big cities are going to be. Definetly not Venice though! Something about the rickshaws, total disregard for traffic laws and burning garbage everywhere tipped me off. We are now a party of 4 as LN has appeared, deciding on India over Peru at the last minute. We are staying at this homestay with two [View Full Entry]

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I arrived in Kochi Saturday morning after spending a lovely night in the Bangalore airport, met some interesting people including a girl who was about to do a 10 silent meditation retreat where you have to sit for 10 hours straight a day with a 5 minute break. Sounds hellish to me. A guy from Germany also gave me the name of the hostel his parents own in Varkala which was very useful. At the airport in Kochi I met two British Indian guys who shared a cab with me to the main jetty from which we took a ferry to [View Full Entry]

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So I'm standing at the airport in KL on enroute to India. I left Bali this morning coming off the first 2 straight days of sun. Go figure, pretty sure I bring bad weather to places. Apparently it was 15 degrees in Busan this week. All in all Bali was amazing, so beautiful and insteresting. Central and eastern Bali (we stayed in Ubud and Ahmed were my favourite. Ahmed had black sand beaches which I had never seen before and even though it rained most of the time I really enjoyed it. And the book I was reading, The Poisionwood Bible, [View Full Entry]

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