I’m sitting on a bus to Dalat next to a cheerful Czech professor of construction who speaks perfect Polish. He’s travelling with his friend’s wife, ekhm. We go uphill and can finally breathe normally as the temperature drops suddenly; it’s a sign that Dalat, an old French hill station, is near. There are stretches ofContinue reading “Guerrillas in the Mist”
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Vietnamese Motorcycle Diaries
1/11/2011, 5:30am: our sleeping bus arrives in Hekou, a border Chinese town with a distinct Vietnamese influence. The Chinese-Vietnamese border opens at 8am, which means we have to kill some time in the early hours when everything is closed. Only elderly Chinese, or maybe Vietnamese, cannot sleep and do their morning jogging and stretching atContinue reading “Vietnamese Motorcycle Diaries”
Cormorants Under the Blue Sky of Yunnan
The last Chinese province on our itinerary waiting to be explored after Hong Kong and Macau was Yunnan. There was a brief thought of my other half to skip it and head off to Vietnam, but that would be clearly a deadly sin we would never forgive ourselves. For some travellers, Yunnan with its 25Continue reading “Cormorants Under the Blue Sky of Yunnan”
Mt Emei: Stairway to Heaven
Having explored Chengdu in Sichuan province for a day, we needed to decide how to spend the next 3 days before we caught our train to Guilin just before the Golden Week (the first week of October), which is the annual biggest migration of the Chinese not counting the Chinese New Year. Emeishan, the holyContinue reading “Mt Emei: Stairway to Heaven”
Room with a View of the Great Wall
The plan was to hike along the unrestored part of the wall from Jiankou to Mutianyu in 5-6 hours and get to Gubeikou, but it was verified by the weather and our hike with a night stay on the Wall extended up to 24 hours. The beginning was quite smooth, we reached Huairou, a nearbyContinue reading “Room with a View of the Great Wall”
M&M’s hiking & camping in Gorkhi-Terelj NP
Exploring Russian Land-Brainscape
As one of my friends commented on our photos that every second picture shows us drinking beer, we decided to do something physically challenging for a change. The challenge involved hiking with our backpacks from Listvyanka to Bolshie Koty village along Lake Baikal shore. It is a 25-kilometre trek which we hoped to do inContinue reading “Exploring Russian Land-Brainscape”
M&M's let loose 