For the past week I’ve been holed up in the delightful Thoulasith guest house, situated in downtown (so to speak) Luang Nam Tha, Laos. LNT is a wonderful base for trekking to the surrounding hill-tribe villages, some of which lie in the nearby Nam Tha National Protected Area. At least that’s what I’m told. I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘trekking’
OK, it wasn’t *exactly* a brothel
Posted in Laos, SE Asia, tagged Laos, Luang Nam Tha, tourism, traveling, trekking on August 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Bagged my first peak
Posted in Mongolia, tagged Bayan-Olgii, hiking, Mongolia, Olgii, Tavan Bogd, trek, trekking on August 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I never would have imagined myself going to a place called “base camp” by my own choice and on my own dime. Base camp means cold, and I like warm. Base camp means mountain, and I like sea. Base camp means uphill, and I’m more of a coaster. But there I was, trudging along the [...]
What the hell….? #2
Posted in SE Asia, Uncategorized, tagged Bangkok, Kalaw, Myanmar, trekking on May 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hello! I’m safe and sound, back in Bangkok. My flight to Phnom Penh, Cambodia leaves at 15:15. I’m crouched over a pubic interrnett kiosk, paying 10 baht/20 mins to use the crappy keyboard, no seat, and a very low keyboad height. 50 eet away there’s a proper internet cafe that charges an outrageous 300 baht ($10!) per [...]
What the hell have you been *doing*?
Posted in SE Asia, Uncategorized, tagged bamboo, Kalaw, Myanmar, Pathein, Pindaya, Pindaya caves, trekking, umbrellas on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Now that all my political blustering is done for the moment… —————- OK. Myanmar! Believe it or not, there’s a country that exists in addition to the typhoon, absurd repressive government, and sham elections. And I’ve been visiting it! Ages ago, the last time I blogged about my trip, I said that we took a [...]
Safe & hot w/aching butt in Mandalay
Posted in SE Asia, Uncategorized, tagged cyclone, Inle Lake, Mandalay, Myanmar, trekking, typhoon, Yangon on May 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here we are in Mandalay after a long (9-hour), bumpy bus ride on painfully hard seats. For the people here, it’s as if there was no cyclone/typhoon. It’s hot and sunny and there’s electricity and (painfully slow yet working) internet. As I mentioned in my brief post yesterday, we really had no idea how big [...]
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