Yaks for Tea & Tibetan Temples Living the high life in Shangri-la Mountains of New Zealand Wonderfully Wild North to Cape Reinga Remoteness, Isolation and Peace The Zen Gardens Our First Days in Kyoto New Zealand Feels like coming home Mount Wudang The Meaning of Life The Day I Met the Buddha and killed him... Laos P.D.R. Mekong Meanderings Tuk Tuk in the Dark A Journey into Varanasi Laos The Gem of Indochina Cambodia Devils and Angels Varanasi City of the Hindus Agra Home of the Taj Mahal Northland New Zealand the Beautiful Kyoto, Nara & Himeji Green Tea and Finding Inner Peace China’s National Treasures Pandas and the Terracotta Warriors Bodh Gaya The Tree of Enlightenment
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The American War

They say the better part of travelling is meeting the people from the countries you visit.  They do not say how much that meeting will affect you, neither how heartbreaking such encounters can be.  The first time I met a one legged man in Laos, while visiting COPE – the charity for the war injured, I asked him how he lost his leg? “The American’s took it,” he replied.

Singapore: Gateway to SE Asia

The hottest cold One of the first things that hits you on arrival to Singapore airport is the intense cold.  Litres of Icy cold air is blasted at you from almost all directions from a myriad of air-conditioning machines the size of skyscrapers and it is quite nice to get outside and experience a little heat for a while.  Air-conditioning has been taken to new heights by the Singaporeans, indeed the entire Tube system is frosty cold conditioned, as is every single mall and many of the pavement steps surrounding them.  To walk around Singapore is to be blasted by heat and cold at such extremes you wonder if you have wandered into a new form of torture.

Welcome to New Zealand

New Zealand is a country Cesca and I have longed to visit for many years. Tales speak of this island and its seemingly unique people. That they are more friendly than the most sociable of Australian’s, more “outdoors-loving” than even Scottish highlanders and more into extreme sports than anyone outside Cirque-de-soleil! Moreover, all of the “Kiwis” I have met have been the most persuasive of ambassadors as they have a deep and abiding love of their country, a great love of sporting life and and all of them stand a pint.

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