At the airport this morning, I experienced yet another “first” – I had to be weighed while holding my luggage!
You see, only 15kilos (approx 15lbs) of baggage is allowed and the plane’s weight has to be evenly distributed. As you can guess, this was a much smaller plane ! The plane ride was 45 minutes,over Read More »
the first thing i noticed about san cristobol was the women. no, not that they are beautiful, because i´ve found mexican women everywhere to be beautiful. rather, i found them strong. just walking down the street, one has the feeling that as a man, one had better step off the narrow sidewalk when a woman is coming Read More »
This final day under the wing of Dr. Ko was spent learning more about traditional Sundanese culture.
Almost 30km to the North of Bandung, the third biggest city in Java, stands Tangkuban Prahu, a still active volcanic crater and a part of local Sundanese lore. It’s a curious Oedipius style tale of a separated son coming Read More »
The Gibbon Experience
400m zip lines 100m above the trees
Journey There (1-2 days)
We woke up at 6am and should have realized from the torrential rain that it was going to be a long day. The weather was so bad that the bus very nearly didn’t leave due to flooding. It was at this point that we Read More »
The more heated the situation becomes in Lhasa, Tibet, the more fervent the demonstrations here in India. China claims that they have not acted irrationally in Tibet, but there are posters all over town depicting the dead and wounded there. Now China is blaming the Dalai Lama for the uprising in Tibet. The Dalai Lama Read More »
Greetings from the warm beach west coast of India, where the Arabian Sea catches the sun to set every evening. I am at guru Amma’s huge ashram. the hugging saint that i spent 3 days conference in Tacoma at last June! she has hugged over 24 million people, donated $23 million to Read More »
Woke up early (well early for us lazy bums) to be ready to meet up with Mark and Paul at 10 for a busy day ahead. Mark used to be a guide, for a few years in Indonesia and then last year in Rajastan so was good at asking people what we sould be doing, Read More »
So, deterred from snowboarding slightly by the lack of snow and pricey lift passes (they’re getting a little cheaper as the Kiwi dollar slides but still, more expensive than Whistler for a resort with 2 lifts? what?) we decided to set about seeing some of the sights the south island of NZ had to offer.
On Read More »
