So from Nepal it was onto India. First stop - smelly Delhi !! Here, I was joined by Clive and we spent a couple of days exploring the sights and smells of Delhi before joining a group to travel around Rajasthan. Stopping first at Agra, we visited the Taj Mahal and Red Fort (as well as the baby Taj). We travelled onto Bharatpur where I was in my element in the Keoladeo Bird Park. The park was full of birds, monkeys, deer and a few rather large turtles -who mad...

Spent a couple of lazy days in Kathmandu sampling the great Nepalese cuisine, German bakeries and, as usual, the excellent shopping. Also visited Pashupatinath with its cremation ghats along the Bagmati river, and Swoyambu (the monkey temple). Joined up with a group to travel through Tibet, so on to Lhasa we flew. First day or so was good and then I fell to altitude sickness which made me feel pretty grotty for a couple of days until I acclimatised. Ma...

Hello all - below is a poem written by one of my travelling companions through Thailand, Loas, Vietnam and Cambodia about the group we travelled with. Enjoy and thanks Eleanor - I think you depicted us all pretty well. 28 Days: written and performed by Eleanor Rose Ball. All copyrights to E.Ball 2006!!! 28 days, 28days 28 days in Indochine, 28 days of amazing memories, the wondrous things we've seen. From Kayaking and jumping off the boat,...

Long time no update......been pretty busy and computers here can sometimes be so painfully slow that it puts me off updating. Anyway, this is what happened in south east asia. Arrived in Bangkok on 14th May where I met up with Gemma (who was looking well after her trekking in Nepal). Saw a few of the sights of Bangkok - floating market, Wat Po (where an old man read my palm, naturally telling me I was going to be very wealthy when I reach my 40's and 50's!...

Long time since my last posting. From Etosha I moved onto Swakupmund in Namibia where much fun was had quad biking and horse riding through the sand dunes. Waking at 4am one morning we drove to Dune 45 in the Namib Nakluft National Park and scrambled to the top for a sunrise view across the dunes. Fish River Canyon was the next stop with amazing views of the sunset and moonrise at opposite ends of the canyon. From here I crossed the border into South Afri...