Winter in summer-land

In my previous post the Nepali connection, I mentioned that my hosts in Kuala Lumpur had invited me to join their trip to Cameron highlands and that I had agreed…

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The Nepali connection… in Kuala Lumpur

“Malaysia truly asia, the mountains and the sea”, the ad from tourism Malaysia jungles. India has 7,500 kilometers of coastline and the mother of all mountain ranges – the mighty…

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Backpacked

As many of you know, I backpacked through Malaysia, Bali, Australia and New Zealand starting mid-September. I’m going to write about how I prepared for this trip in this post. In…

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Cambodian Adventures – Part 4 – The wedding at Kampong Thom

In Part 3, my tuk-tuk driver in Siem Reap (Angkor Wat) offered me to take to his friend’s wedding in central Cambodia near Kampong Thom. I had agreed. This post…

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Cambodian adventures – Part 3

One of the difficulties in exploring the Angkor Wat and allied temples is that they are spread out over a large area. So one of the first things I did…

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Cambodian Adventures – Part 2

This is going to be a short one – about how I got to where I was in Part 1. A brief note on footnotes: if you are interested in…

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Cambodian adventures – Part 1

I’ve been meaning to write about the experiences I’ve had on a backpacking trip to Thailand, Cambodia and Singapore that I did late last year. By some accident of history…

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