The Tourists That We Are

29Mar07

We couldn’t pronounce her name in Nepali, so we just called her by her nickname, Lady Luck. We were introduced by one of the park naturalists at the safari tour office. She was enormous, an absolute giant with a sagging belly and thighs like tree-trunks. She had tiny, beady eyes that were sunk into her [...]

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“Kimchi!”

24Mar07

“Pay go pa?”
“Ung, chokumb. Dha pay go pa?”
“Na chincha pay go pa! Bring on the food!”
Twelve days of daal bhat later, we sit on the sunny step in front of our hostel. Twelve days of aching legs, blistered feet and daal bhat. Not that I have anything against daal bhat, in fact it was an [...]

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“Welcome In Nepal!”

11Mar07

After a full day of traveling in an excruciatingly uncomfortable bus, we arrived at the Nepali border. The ride took longer than is should; apart from the driver stopping for a chai every hour at his friends’ restaurants, we also had a two hour wait while we waited for a new tyre to replace the [...]

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In India…

05Mar07

We have been in India a week shy of two months. 7 weeks in these vast and intense lands, 53 days of experiences and emotions. And make no mistake, every day of life in India is an adventure! Every moment a new stimulation and a new reaction! In the Land of Contrast, our beliefs and [...]

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Vipassana

02Mar07

I awoke suddenly to the sound of an echoing bell and lay slightly confused for a few seconds, we are in different accommodation every few days so i stared upwards at another unfamiliar ceiling and wondered where i might be, but it quickly came back to me. I made the decision just two days before [...]

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