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Belonging neither to India nor Myanmar
For me Uttar Pradesh is a very intense and quintessentially Indian experience. Since I first visited a year and a half ago, the State’s hot dusty planes, the crowds of people, the worshipping in places...
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Myanmar – The Tiger’s Last Hope?
photo by Stephen Mills Today I smelled a tiger, saw numerous footprints, and heard one growl very nearby. I had never imagined myself to be so much of a wildlife-tracking fan, but this morning’s walk...
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The Gurkha Connection
One of our favourite places to eat in Yangon is a little Nepali hole-in-the-wall restaurant on a small road just behind the apartment on Mughal Street. Only open until about 8pm, by when the food has...
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Rains, Rough Roads and Repairs…
A quick update after a rather hectic week! The best-laid plans are no match for Very Severe Cyclonic Storms, so we have found out. On October 12 Cyclone Phailin made landfall in the Southern Sate of...
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On The Roads
When one is traveling over roads for such a long time, spending many hours every day looking out over what is sometimes a long straight stretch of well used tarmac, at other times a deserted track...
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Into India’s Northeast: Nagaland
Leaving Bhutan to re-enter vast India yet again is a bizarre experience. After weeks of mountain driving, you encounter a few last mean hairpin bends, then suddenly drop down into the Indian plains at...
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Time for Tea
There were various things we had associated with Nagaland before setting foot there, but one thing we certainly hadn’t was tea plantations. It was therefore a surprise to find out that Nagaland is a...
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India’s Separatist Movements
Throughout this trip, and in particular in the North East of India, we have come across armed separatist movements. As we elaborated in the previous three posts, Nagaland and Manipur are buzzing with...
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Taking off
Leaving from Nizamuddin East, Delhi, for Agra, via the very new Yamuna Expressway. The riding will not be this easy again!
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Stuck in Shangri La
Those of you who know Andy will not be surprised to hear about the numerous Excel sheets and other documents that started appearing in our shared Dropbox folder (yes, romantic partners get the same...
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