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Connemara Market Trivandrum

Thiruvananthapuram, Capital of Kerala

Posted in India
Carrie

Thiruvananthapuram (try saying that at 5:30am at the airport check-in desk) is the largest city and gateway to the state of Kerala. We just stayed a few days, but found…

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Varanasi

Life and Death in Varanasi

Posted in India
Carrie

“Don’t go to Varanasi.” That’s what we’d been told by a few people we’d met on our trip. “You’ll either love it or hate it,” others had said. It’s certainly…

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Alipura

Alipura and the Kama Sutra Temples of Khajuraho

Posted in India
Carrie

Alipura is a small rural town in Madhya Pradesh. Around eighty percent of the Indian population live in small towns and villages like this one and it was a breath…

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The Taj Mahal

Posted in India
Carrie

One of the new seven wonders of the world, the Taj Mahal is high on everyone’s list when visiting India. Out of everything to see in the country it wasn’t…

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The Pink City of Jaipur

Posted in India
Carrie

Jaipur, the capital of India’s Rajasthan state, is an amazing, colourful city, with chaotic streets and lively bazaars. Camels and elephants share the roads with scooters and cycle rickshaws. In…

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Chai tea seller

New Delhi and No Signs of a Bad Belly

Posted in India
Carrie

Namaste India! This one has been on the bucket list for a long time. We arrived to an extremely smoggy New Delhi late at night and the next day set…

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Rice Terraces and Hill Tribes in Sapa

Posted in Asia, Travel, Vietnam
Carrie

Sapa is a town in the mountains of North Vietnam, originally a hill station for the French in 1922, now a base for trekking in the surrounding countryside through cascading rice…

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Back in Hanoi Where it all Began

Posted in Vietnam
Carrie

In May 2014 we set off on our first long-term adventure, 7 months travelling through South East Asia and on to New Zealand. We started that trip by flying straight…

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Vang Vieng – The Former Party Capital of Asia

Posted in Laos
Carrie

The tubing haven of Vang Vieng in central Laos is an example of tourism gone wrong. This sleepy town on the Nam Song River became a famous party mecca for…

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Visiting COPE in Vientiane, Laos

Posted in Laos
Carrie

We missed out Laos on our last trip, it was monsoon season and we decided to go to Myanmar instead, so we were happy to get the time to fit…

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Mexico City: Street Food, Lucha Libre and Teotihuacan

Posted in Mexico, South America
Carrie

What better way to finish off five months in Latin America than a few days in Mexico City. We had three things to tick off the list – sampling the…

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Popocatepetl and the Great Pyramid of Cholula

Posted in Mexico, South America
Carrie

Puebla was just a quick two night stop on our way to Mexico City, although we had a lovely little hostel in the centre of the city and wished we…

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San Cristobal de las Casas and Shamanic Rituals

Posted in Mexico, South America
Carrie

San Cristobal de las Casas is a small colonial town up in the mountains of the Chiapas region of Mexico. It sits at an altitude of 2200 metres so can…

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Valladolid and Chichen Itza

Posted in Mexico, South America
Carrie

Valladolid is a pretty little colonial town in Mexico’s Yucatan region. It doesn’t see that many tourists but is a great base to visit Chichen Itza which is only 45…

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