Tag: backpacking
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Trips are getting booked. Thank goodness. I could never sit still as a kid, and I still can’t as an adult. Porto for a long weekend at the end of this month. Hong Kong at the end of January into…
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I’m sitting in my small room, fan whirring to circulate air, window open with the sounds and smells of Chinatown intoxicating. It’s very hot, and there seems to be no escape from heat and humidity aside from guzzling water or…
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Arriving in Bukit Lawang, immediately a couple of guys were ready to pounce enquiring if accomodation was needed or a tour. Mistake no. 1 was not saying I already have a tour booked, because they decided to escort me to…
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Arriving after a forty minute hop from Penang, that took a bit longer due to a go around landing, myself expecting to land any minute and suddenly being thrust upward and back over the sea, no explanation!

