Dealing with touts in Egypt’s tourist hotspots
It’s a sad fact that tourism in Egypt is in desperate straits at the moment. The global financial crisis and the recent revolution in Egypt have made people unwilling and afraid to go play meet the...
View ArticleTrekking the Himalayas: advice
If you haven’t seen my posts about our trek to Everest Base Camp, you can see them here: parts one, two, three, four and five. Believe me, those posts are more interesting than this one. This post is...
View ArticleGetting a Myanma visa in Bangkok
This is an advice post, for anyone wanting to visit Myanmar and trying to figure out how to get a visa. If that doesn’t apply to you, don’t blame me if you get to the bottom of the following wall of...
View ArticleScootering around South-East Asia: advice
Scootering into the Mekong Delta from Ho Chi Minh City Observant (or perhaps I should just say ‘persistent’) readers may recall that a while ago, I made fun of the traffic situation in Vietnam. As you...
View ArticleGalápagos Islands: advice and costs
tl;dr: We spent twelve days in the Galápagos for less than $US2000 per person including flights from mainland Ecuador – and about a quarter of that was my prodigious eating efforts, so you can...
View ArticleMachu Picchu
Machu Picchu. As seen shortly after you enter, with Huayna Picchu on the right Machu Picchu is one of those destinations. An iconic fixture of bucket list itineraries the world over. And yet, this...
View ArticleBolivia travel advice
Another of those random straight-from-the-unsorted-chaos-of-my-memory-to-the-unsorted-chaos-of-the-intertubes advice/tips-and-tricks posts. Feel free to skip if you don’t have a trip to Bolivia...
View ArticleGetting a Brazilian visa in Puerto Iguazú
This is an especially boring advice post, even by my standards, but I’m putting it up in the hope it saves someone some trouble figuring out what they need to do in order to travel to Brazil – or,...
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