Now I am not one who usually complains, honest. But I occasionally find myself and my travel companions subjected to certain treatments that I feel deserve to be complained about, and I am not afraid to approach them and make others aware. For a lot of my travel life I have refused to take guided tours, the wealth obtained from ahieving such ventures on your own generally far exceed those where you are constricted to anothers schedule. I do think of the benefits ...

3 day hike from Dimaluo on the Nu Jiang river to Cizhong on the parallel Mekong river (across the Biluo snow mountain which summits at 4652m). It has been a mere 3 days and 2 nights on the mountainside and I have learnt so much about myself, Prue, our relationship, my relationship with a guide, the amount of respect I can hold for a mule and the exact reason why I have lugged a bloody sleeping bag a third the way around the globe. A late start after a gr...