India From North to South (Kolkata & Goa): Cheats & Liars, The Virgin, Sex & Other Tales of India From the northeastern states of Assam and Nagaland where I...
Kerala: God’s Own Country & Farewell To India I am now in Male, capital of Republic of Maldives. I have just flown here yesterday from Thiruvananthapuram...
Dear friends, MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR! I am now in the coastal city of Al Mukalla, southeast Yemen in the Middle East. Have been having a good time...
Yemen: Manhattan Meets Grand Canyon in Dagger Land What would you do when you get into a taxi and found your driver wore a curved dagger and kept a Kalashnikov...
Trinidad and Guyana: Oil Island and the Lands of Many Waters Dear All, Over the last week or so, I have been travelling through parts of the Caribbean and the...
Suriname & French Guiana: Would you exchange Manhattan for Suriname? From Georgetown, I flew to Paramaribo, capital of Suriname, the Dutch-speaking country...
Island-Hop the Eastern Caribbean: Tales of Survivors, Migrants, Revolutionaries and Queens To most people, the volcanic islands of Eastern Caribbean are...
Please check out my numerous African photos at http://twcnomad.blogspot.com Dear All, Greetings from Abidjan, Cote dIvoire (formerly known as Ivory Coast,...
Soon: Ouagadougou or Bust - Beggars with Guns & Other Rough Travel Tales in Ex-War Zones, Semi-Failed States & A Few Paradises Greetings from Bamako, capital...
Now in Ouagadougou (Ouaga in short), capital of Burkina Faso. Exotic sounding name, huh? Arrived here yesterday from Mali. We had wanted to spend a few days...
Timbuktu Finally! Timbuktu the very name evokes images of a far away place which is very difficult to get to. Most of us have heard of it as school kids...
The Sahara Motorcycle Diaries; On to Ethiopia in the Horn of Africa Greetings from Bamako, Mali. Over the past week or so, I have travelled through Mali, the...
Djibouti Now; Ethiopia: Mad Max, Freak Show, Nude Photography & Visiting Great Grandma Now in the small port city state of Djibouti, at the strategic southern...
Greetings from Somaliland, a country you cant find on any world map, but has been in existence with its own flag, government, army and vibrant livestock...
Eritrea - Anatomy of War and Peace Part 1 Flag of Eritrea Since I last wrote from Djibouti, I visited Eritrea, a small country of 4 million people on the...
Kenya now; Northern Ethiopia: Ancient Land and Corpses Now in Nairobi, capital of Kenya. Over the last two weeks, I was mostly in northern Ethiopia, visiting...
Mad Rush Through East Africa C A Summary Now at Dubai Airport lounge on my way to Libya, my 170th country! Since I left Ethiopia, I have made my way very...
Libya: To The Devils Mountain in the Golden Sahara Kaf Ajnoun: The Devils Mountain. Located in the deepest Sahara of southern Libya, this 1281-meter...
Sudan: Looking for Pyramids in War Zone; Short Updates on the UAE; Now in Iran Sudan for holiday? Isnt this country plagued by civil war and coups since...
<Note: Some names and incidents in the essay, as with my past essays, have been changed to protect the privacy of those involved.> Iran Part 1: Searching for...
Iran Part 3: The Iran of Ayatollahs and Mourners I got onto a morning bus to Tehran. Ali, an English speaking Esfahani, sat beside me on the bus. We spoke...
Lebanon: The Eternal Battleground That is Paradise For many years, before the term failed state began to be applied on countries...
During the last 2 weeks, I visited parts of China, Thailand and Indonesia in rapid succession. I have posted a number of short blog entries and hundreds of...
The New Paper published a 2-page report on my travels yesterday (2 Feb 09), followed by a short summary on Straits Times Interactive Breaking News: He's the...
When a group of Spanish conquistadors arrived on the northern coast of the South American continent in 1499, they saw natives living in houses on stilts over...
The island of Hispaniola, or the “Spanish Island”, was so-named by Christopher Columbus when he discovered the island in 1492, during his first voyage to...
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