Tag Archives: backpacking
-
Random questions and anecdotes from my trip – Part 2
Posted on December 9, 2015 by noflytri in Top Experiences.At least some people read Part 1 of my random list of travel anecdotes, so, as punishment, here is part 2… Weirdest place you slept The arrivals room after immigration at Aktau port. Having docked at the port at 1am they let us kip there till day light. Made slightly more weird by the fact that before […]
Continue Reading... 3 Comments. -
Random questions and anecdotes from my trip – Part 1
Posted on November 18, 2015 by noflytri in Top Experiences.I decided to ask myself some of the questions people seem to like to ask me about my trip, plus a few random ones of my own. Any you think I missed? Well they might be in Part 2, but ask them in the comments anyway! What was your favourite country to visit? This is […]
Continue Reading... 1 Comment. -
What’s it like being back?
Posted on November 9, 2015 by noflytri in Travel tips.I’ve not written one of these for a while, but having been back now for 3 entire months and finding myself somewhat tired of seemingly spending all my time writing out numerous different versions of my CV, I thought it might be rather healthy to try to write something else, something I actually enjoy writing […]
Continue Reading... 1 Comment. -
Dan and the Chocolate Factory
Posted on June 7, 2015 by noflytri in USA.Ok so Dan doesn’t quite scan as well as Charlie, and as I actually visited the Chocolate Factory on National Doughnut Day perhaps I should have tried to find a Doughnut Factory to visit instead. That said given the amount of donuts, chocolate and pie that I ate that day, I have probably greatly increased […]
Continue Reading... 6 Comments. -
I want to ride my bicycle (amongst the temples of Bagan)
Posted on January 30, 2015 by noflytri in Burma/Myanmar, Photoblog, South East Asia.Bagan, is Burma/Myanmar’s famous city of 100’s of temples, some dating back almost 1,000 years and, in Burmese terms, a tourist mecca, with 100’s of tourists carrying around thousands of dollars of expensive camera equipment around in the hope of catching the perfect sunset or sunrise shot of their own. But this blog post didn’t […]
Continue Reading... Comments Off on I want to ride my bicycle (amongst the temples of Bagan) -
Wat this way…
Posted on December 21, 2014 by noflytri in Cambodia, Photoblog, South East Asia.I’m going to let the photos do most of the talking for this post. For Ankor Wat and its surrounding ruins I will just say the following: They are amazing! There are many tourists – BUT – there are also many temple, so it’s perfectly possible to find sites with few, if anyone else there […]
Continue Reading... Comments Off on Wat this way… -
Phnom Penh without the Killing Fields
Posted on December 11, 2014 by noflytri in Cambodia, South East Asia.Having thoroughly enjoyed my time in Vietnam, I was sad to leave, and spent my time on the bus to Cambodia thinking about how quickly I could travel the around the rest of South East Asia to give me as much time possible back in Vietnam when I return to China. Like most of South […]
Continue Reading... Comments Off on Phnom Penh without the Killing Fields -
Entering Vietnam and getting back on the backpacker trail
Posted on November 12, 2014 by noflytri in Museums, Photoblog, South East Asia, Vietnam.I’ve been in Vietnam almost a week now. It feels both similar to China and a whole world away. It’s still cheap, the food is still tasty (and I continue to get to show off my chopstick skillz) the flags are still red and the museums still seem to exist primarily for dubious patriotic education […]
Continue Reading... 2 Comments. -
Landscapes of China Part 1 – Kashgar to Xi’an
Posted on November 2, 2014 by noflytri in China, Photoblog.So I am finally ready to leave China after two months after which I still feel like I have barely scratched the surface. There is clearly much more to see and do, but I feel its time to move on. Updating this blog from behind the Great Firewall has been difficult, so posting has been […]
Continue Reading... 1 Comment. -
An unexpected gem…
Posted on October 8, 2014 by noflytri in China, Photoblog, Top Experiences.First impressions of Hotan (or Khotan, or Hetain…it seems to have a million transliterations…) were the kind that make you question why on earth you had come there. It is a Uighur town in western China that has been subject to increased migration of Han Chinese in recent years as road, rail and economic links to […]
Continue Reading... 3 Comments.
