GETTING IN As mentioned here, after receiving a spiritual battering courtesy of Nicaragua’s chicken buses and El Salvador’s pervasive noise pollution, I booked myself onto an expensive shuttle to go directly from La Unión to Antigua, Guatemala. By this point, I’d deemed my reserves of time and patience more precious than my ever-dwindling budget – and I […]
I’ve been fortunate enough to have suffered a whole array of near-death experiences at this stage in life. And of all those, summiting Kilimanjaro is the one that featured the most prolonged physical agony – but it’s also the one that I cherish most, and perhaps the only one that I look back upon with
It had taken over three decades of existence, but by early 2019 I’d gotten myself to a stage where I’d stepped foot on every inhabited continent bar one: South America. Aka the one that was most logistically difficult and financially taxing in relation to my home location of Shanghai. But I was scheduled to begin