Thimphu - Bhutan. Bhutan is certainly the kind of country that will keep your average mountain goat entertained. There is an abundance of trekking to be had although you cannot scale their highest mountain as it is strictly forbidden (as is any peak over 6,000m in the country), thus making it one of the highest …
Dhaka to Paro. All too soon it was time to leave Bagerhat and head back to Dhaka. This time our mode of transport would be by train and would take no less than ten hours which would be a similar time to taking the boat and nearly twice as long as driving along an unfinished …
Dhaka - Bangladesh. As with India, tell people you're off to Bangladesh and everyone becomes an expert on travel health with the overriding assumption that anyone who visits these countries will see their guts explode before the ink is dry on their passport stamp. The following weekend they order a curry from the local Indian …
Quebec - CanadaI still vividly remember the first time I took off down a runway. I was fifteen and had somehow managed to convince my cash strapped parents to send me on a school ski trip in Quebec, Canada. As the plane turned onto the runway the pilot immediately opened up the engines and we …
Manama, Bahrain. It's quite interesting the difference a bridge makes. Granted, the King Fahd Causeway stretches across 25km of the Arabian Gulf and granted, you could see marked differences between two countries by just crossing a land boarder a little further down the coast but let's just forget about these minor discrepancies for the purpose …
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