After a couple of days driving including a very lackadaisical border crossing we arrived at Royal Chitwan National Park.
You're Not From Around Here, Are You?
A travelogue covering travelling, living, working and volunteering in over 90 countries
After a couple of days driving including a very lackadaisical border crossing we arrived at Royal Chitwan National Park.
From Panna we drove to Varanasi, a holy city on the Ganges.
There don’t seem to be many tigers at the Panna Tiger Reserve
Drove to a town called Orcha – a tranquil little place full of ornate temples. A bunch of locals appeared from nowhere out and helped me cook dinner then settled in to watch us getting remarkably drunk on very cheap punch made with moonshine and fruit juice. Those who made it out of bed by [...]
I rather rudely read over one of the other passengers shoulders as they wrote an email home about the very exaggerated hardships they were facing on the trip
Got up at 5 to reach the Taj Mahal for sunrise, when it apparently turns orange, but thanks to the appalling amount of smog it stayed pretty much grey. Close up it was amazing though and well worth the visit. To get there we’d hired a tuk-tuk for the whole day so pottered around a [...]
Since leaving corporate life in London in 2006 I’ve travelled, worked, volunteered and lived in over 90 countries.
Highlights so far would be driving along the Silk Road from Beijing to Istanbul, a complete circuit of South America and volunteering with Habitat for Humanity in Costa Rica. I’m currently back in Beijing, as a base to visit more of Asia and attempt to learn Mandarin.
© 2013 - All content and images copyright You're Not From Around Here, Are You? unless otherwise stated. All Rights Reserved.