If you wondered just how beautiful the mountains of Kyrgyzstan could be, well here's a photo I took that shows you. Taken in a place in the mountains called Altyn Arashan.
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Bishkek – Culture and Character
As Central Asia week continues, I bring you a little photo journey though he capital of Kyrgyzstan, little Bishkek. Not as big as the other regional capitals, Bishkek has a charm of its own and is actually a quite attractive city with some beautiful parks, lots of theatre, a strange museum which suggests that Kyrgyzstan …
Why visit Central Asia?
Hey folks, you know I've written a fair bit on Central Asia over the last year and a half, about my time in three amazing countries there – Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, but today I wanted to address why you should go there. Firstly – the thrill of the unexplored. Okay, you’re not going to …
Sunday Spotlight – Krakow
Poland has a number of great cities, but I think it’s pretty hard to go past Krakow in the country’s south as the best city going around. Which is why the Sunday Spotlight is shining straight at this lovely city, filled with alleyways and hills, with a stunning central city square where everyone congregates and …
West African Memories – Niger into Burkina Faso
Continuing on with my flashback to 2006, we start this week in a country many people don't know much about - Niger, a giant, desert-like country north of Nigeria. Tuesday, February 07, 2006 A way away Well a post has disappeared.... It wouldn't save a few days ago and now it's gone.... I noticed In …
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Scammed in India – Mumbai
How quickly would it take on my second visit to India to be in strife again? Well, as it turned out, not long! The flight from London was, to say the least, ‘bouncy’. I’d taken dozens of flights in 1999, but somehow I must have missed any sort of decent turbulence. Not so in 2000-01, …
Travel Video : Dubai
Hi everyone! It's occurred to me that I have never really introduced my travel videos to you, so I thought over the next however-many Mondays it was time to do just that! Along with travel and taking photos, I have also done a lot of amateur videoing in my life. I've managed to take videos …
Sunday Spotlight – Cluj Napoca
Today the spotlight is back and it’s shining Romania-way to a university town in the westish northish part of a country that has most of its international reputation built on the back of a dude who inspired the legend of Dracula and vampires and fast forward a few centuries and we have the awesome TV …
West African Memories – Benin
Monday, January 30, 2006 Snakes alive... hey everyone I just lost my post so here goes. Again. Yesterday took share taxi from Lome to Cotonou, Benin. If you are interested in these countries I thoroughly recommend the destination guide at www.lonelyplanet.com Anyways I have a damn nice room which I am pretty happy about, but I …
Bountiful Bulgaria
Today I thought I would have a bit of a reflection on a country I wrote on a couple of weeks back and was in my thoughts. Bulgaria was my first step into Europe proper back many years ago now in my journey across Asia to Europe. I was not sure what to expect, but …
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