and 24 hours and 2 buses, one minivan, and 1 long shared jeep ride back up into the mountains, and we’ve arrived in Darjeeling. The new motto, as it was forcefully impressed upon us by our guesthouse owner, Lama, is ‘beat the heat’. Stay in…
Almost three weeks into Nepal, and we are about to head off on our second trek, this one to the Langtang Valley. Baffled at how nothing in Kathmandu’s bpacker district has any breakfast or even a tea shop open before 7am. Bleary eyed Nepalis, c’mon!…
A few highlights of the last month: Smoggy, sumptuous Saigon: where we sampled all forms of transport and movement – rowboats and speedboats down the Mekong, high speed slides at a waterpark on the outskirts, public buses to war museums and art galleries, and dark…
From Hanoi upwards, and downwards, here’s a quick highilght reel of the last three weeks in Vietnam… – Trekking to the H’mong villages in Sapa. Lucked out finding the clearest, bluest day to see the Vietnamese Alps on a slow trot down a hilly, undulated,…
