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Hello everyone! We are now in the holy town of Rishikesh which is where the boys from Liverpool in the late 60s came to meet the Guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to do a bit of meditation and spiritual stuff by the sacred Ganges.

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We started our visit to New Zealand in Christchurch (with our pirated Lonely Planet from Saigon, one of a few photocopied books we bought from street vendors) on the South Island and it felt a bit like being in Cambridge, with its very traditional bu..

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We stayed one night in Topiza in quite a nice hotel but next to a deafening disco with some maniac on a microphone! The next day we caught a bus to Uyuni. Uyuni is not the sort of place tourists would stop at if it wasn´t for the extraordinary Salar ..

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Hello to everyone from the Mystical Kingdom of Nepal! We arrived in the capital, Kathmandu, and instantly fell in love with the place. I know we've said that about every single country we've gone to, but this time it's real, true love. In fact we lov..

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My trusted taxi driver and I set out from Pondicherry to the town of Thiruvannamalai, which is one of the great temple towns of South India as well as the site of various Ashrams, such as Ramanasramam.

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There is a popular book on the backpacker circuit at the moment. Written by an American journalist about Phnom Penh during the 1990s, its subtitle says it all - Guns, Girls and Ganja. Although it's nowadays a safer and more accessible place, and has ..

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Before leaving San Francisco, I picked up E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India, as a silent editorial companion to accompany me on my solo Indian journey. The city I’ve called home for the last week, Bangalore, is most apropos as the novel's setting.

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Pondicherry (Pondy) was a French colony until 1954. There is plenty to do here although there are no beaches in the town. The restaurants are great and there is a lot of choice including many French restaurants. The main tourist part of Pondy contain..

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We arrived in Chennai, the capital of the great Dravidian state - Tamil Nadu, after a surprisingly comfortable train journey. Chennai was, like Kolkata, full of homeless people and terrible poverty and somehow managed to smell even worse - the main r..

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To get to Chiang Mai, Paul had the bright idea that we should travel as the Thais do and get the train from Ayutthaya. Well it usually takes 12 hours, so we opted for an overnight journey in a sleeper compartment.

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