Afghanistan? What? Where? You mad?! Most of our travels within the country were through central and northern Afghanistan. The trip was quite exhausting and security concerns increasingly played a part especially during the elections with the risk of rocket attacks, suicide bombs or IEDs. However, I did think that the security forces were over enthusiastic in [...]
Archive of posts tagged holiday
Malaysia Holiday – August 2008
I recently returned from a holiday trip to Malaysia in August 2008. It was a fun trip as I did some cave exploring in Mulu in the Malaysian state of Sarawak in Borneo, and also travelled to other parts of Malaysia such a Kuala Lumpur, Cameron Highlands, Penang Island and Langkawi Island where I attempted a bit of swimming, [...]
New York City! Woohoo!
Just spend a few days (23 May – 27 May) in New York City for a reunion with fellow travellers from the 2007 Antarctica trip. The weather cooperated too! The motley crew consisted mostly of this lot (showing our first tentative steps at building a snowman in Antarctica): Anyway, the views from our host’s apartment were [...]
Upcoming trip to Atacama and Patagonia
Well, it’s come to that time of the year that I’ve been waiting for. I’ll be spending next week somewhere in the Atacama Desert (northern Chile) and then flying south to travel around Patagonia for two weeks (both Chilean and Argentinean parts). If you have time, have a look at my Home Page for some [...]
