feat. Central, East, South, and Southeast Asia + transcontinental straddlers
BACKGROUND The Pamir Highway is one of the intrepid adventurer’s holy grails. A 1200km road trip through the Pamir Mountains – sometimes referred to as the ‘roof of the world’ thanks to their often exceeding 7000m in height – it takes in two countries (mostly Tajikistan, a little Kyrgyzstan), spends a significant chunk traversing the […]
I’ve been missing Cambodia a lot lately. Obviously, I left a big part of me behind upon departure in 2015. But my early years in China were filled with positivity and endless excitement, as well as a significant amount of travel both domestic and international, so it’s not a loss that I dwelt upon
Made a typically eleventh-hour decision to climb Mount Fuji last week. It was actually my second choice for a July getaway (hopefully I’ll have reason to post about my first choice in a couple of months), but finances and social obligations rendered it the better option. Luckily, it didn’t disappoint! I first visited Japan ten
WHY? ‘Why Kazakhstan?’ was a constant question from friends as well as locals in the country itself when I rolled up in 2018. Tourism was still a nascent industry, so bemused (but very friendly!) Kazakhs would always ask me what the hell I was doing there and, upon finding out that I was a mere
I’ve forever been a guy who swings between ridiculous extremes, so after years of living modestly in the bustling but relatively small-scale tourist hotspot of Siem Reap, I decided that it was time to experience life on the complete opposite end of the spectrum. Cue Shanghai, China – an economic powerhouse whose population was over
It all began in Cambodia. Actually, it began many years earlier – I’d had a tome called Wonders of the World as a kid, which I studied meticulously from beginning to end. There were many ‘wonders’ in that book, but the most fascinating of all to my curious young mind was Angkor Wat: the architectural apotheosis