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Pokhara, Nepal · Day 17 · 76 momos · 4 samosas
Traveling for:
Currently in: Pokhara, Nepal
Next stop: Lumbini, Nepal
Samosas eaten: 4
Momos eaten: 76



Mandalay - Jan 8, 2013 Chain link

Imagine you're walking down the street in an unknown town at night and everything is closed and you come upon a small plastic stool about 2 meters into the street with two water bottles and a small elephant light illuminating them but no one around, no signs, nothing. Do you approach? No! You know there's some sort of pit/net/swinging log trap.
Myanmar double strong and onion salad
Caged fire hydrant
Sign outside the royal palace in mandalay
Entrance to mandalay hill
Pointing buddha on the way to the top of mandalay hill
Monk taking a picture of somebody
Pillars on the way up to mandalay hill
Tourists atop mandalay hill
Two young monks on top of mandalay hill
Our monk friend on top of mandalay hill
Dinner our monk friend ordered
Myanmar stoplight
Mandalay firetruck
Monk holding a cigarette
If I knew a young boy I would have totally stolen this sign for the door to his room.
Woman carrying a tray of pineapple on her head
Woman biking through village outside of mandalay
U bein bridge
Printer hooked up to car battery
Fisherman with helmet on
Homemmade skateboard
A traditional mandalay massage
Temple outside mandalay
Three boys in village outside mandalay
Ox drawn plow by u bein bridge
Umbrellas in bags
Burmese woman with traditional face painting
Rum cola
Brad and i enjoying some beers while hitchhiking to bagan
Junction bathroom

Hitchhiking to Mandalay - Jan 7, 2013 Chain link

Stack of cash in bank lobby
Four guys in asian crouch
Sugar juice press
Me on the bus before it was full
Me hitchhiking in yangon
Boy at tire repair shop at am
Brad sleeping in the back of a truck
Brad in the back of a truck hitchhiking to mandalay
Woman refilling gas enroute to mandalay
Burmese gas station attendant and her son
Cute burmese boy
Temple in mandalay outskirts
Ox cart on the way to mandalay

Shwedagon - Jan 6, 2013 Chain link

Shwedagon
Shwedagon
Shwedagon
Shwedagon bell
Temple neighboring shwedagon paya
Inside of the temple in the next picture of the temple next to Shwedagon Paya
Cool buddha statue
Interesting buddha statue
According to the official Myanmar customs document it is also illegal to enter the country with Fire Arms

Yangon - Jan 6, 2013 Chain link

Dogs sleeping on chairs
Myanmar payphone
Me and a shop keeper in yangon market
An American I met in Indonesia said he once saw a picture depicting a world traveler and it showed him doing something adventurous and said: this is how my friends and family think I spend most of my time and then showed him waiting for a bus and said: this is how I actually spend most of my time
Watermellon sales lady on the circular train
Smiling kid with makeup on circular train
The railway was the only place I saw garbage in Yangon but it was everywhere... and sometime on fire
One of the many sales-people who boarded the Circular Train in Yangon was selling betel nut which is something that deserves a whole blog post
Pushing the physically and socially accepted limit to the amount of avocado you can put on a slice of bread.

Phnom Penh - Jan 2, 2013 Chain link

Fish drying on the streets of phnom penh
Skulls from the killing fields
Stupa at killing fields
S prison room
Statue outside wat phnom
Wat phnom
Wat phnom
Old chinese chamber of commerce in cambodia building outside
Staircase in the old chinese chamber of commerce in cambodia building

Puerto Princesa - Dec 28, 2012 Chain link

Funny sign in puerto princesa
Trees in harbor puerto princesa
Kids playing on dock in puerto princesa

El Nido - Dec 26, 2012 Chain link

Me on palm tree at el nido
Entrance to el nido lagoon
Peaceful lagoon in el nido

Donsol - Dec 23, 2012 Chain link

Sunset in donsol
Donsol friends
Retro karaoke machine

Batad - Dec 18, 2012 Chain link

The bus terminal to banaue
Me and my danish friends in a tricycle taxi
Trike driver with NYPD tshirt
Breakfast at our guesthouse overlooking the batad rice terraces
Batad rice terraces
Batad rice terraces
Stone walls of the batad rice terraces
Batad rice terraces
Waterfall outside batad
Batad rice terraces
Batad city inside the rice terraces
Batad rice terraces
Batad rice terraces
Our hike out of batad
Me on the roof of a jeepney on the way from batad to banaue
Tricycle taxi text

Sagada - Dec 16, 2012 Chain link

In the lower you can see coffins hanging off the cliff
My foot after walking through some switchgrass
Coffins shoved in a cave
They were blessing a new house at the homestay I was at the night we arrived
Barber shop slash shoe repair
Old church in sagada
Me rock climbing
Me rock climbing
Me rock climbing
Hanging coffins

Baguio - Dec 15, 2012 Chain link

View from bus to baguio
Bus stop slash roadside fruit stand
Most chickens ive seen one guy carrying at once
View from bus to sagada
Boy standing on edge of mountain
People selling things at bus stop

Vigan City - Dec 14, 2012 Chain link

Charming vigan street
Charming vigan street
Charming vigan street
The common public transport in the Philippines is called a jeepney and most of them look like they belong in the movie Death Race.
The tricycle taxis in the Philippines are often made up to look like Roman chariots.
Like northern Borneo, the Philippines seems built to grind.
The upstairs common area in the place I stayed in Vigan.
Park in vigan

Philippines - Dec 13, 2012 Chain link

The most beautiful thing you can see in any country: your luggage on the baggage carousel at the airport.

Brunei - Dec 11, 2012 Chain link

Field and mosque in brunei
Mosque in brunei
Geometric architecture in front of mosque
Sign in brunei youth hostel
Sign in brunei bathroom
Brunei hostel inside compound
Brunei hostel compound from outside
Brunei old village
Brunei modern village

Niah - Dec 10, 2012 Chain link

Niah boardwalk
Pole left over by birds nest harvesters
Niah cave by paintings
Water falling in niah cave
Broken boardwalk at niah
Insect covered handrail at niah

Sibu - Dec 9, 2012 Chain link

Sibu night market
A Christmas tree made out of water bottles
Roosters wrapped in newspaper
Rice selection at sibu market
Littering sign at sibu park
Building at sibu park
Buildings at sibu park
Garden at sibu park

Kapit - Dec 7, 2012 Chain link

Some people look for Agoda or TripAdvisor stickers on a place to stay. I look for signs like this. After staying at that place I'm gonna start looking for ones with "No cockroach" signs as well...

Bako - Dec 3, 2012 Chain link

Proboscis monkey sitting
A proboscis monkey sitting in a tree
Exposed roots
Bako overlook
Me sitting by bako overlook
My fee over rocks
Bako view from lookout
I had a nasty fall down these stairs
Bako path
Bako steps
Pitcher plant
These plants paralleled and crossed the path the whole second day.
A good portion of the big loop in Bako was like this
Several carnivorous pitcher plants
Beach rocks at bako