Mandalay
11 марта 2015 г., Мьянма ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
Well, Mandalay is not quite as exotic as it's made out to be. In fact it's a dusty, dirty, polluted, busy, smelly grid of streets. And it's pushing 40 degrees (the picture below sums up the mood inЧитать далее
Kunming
12 марта 2015 г., Китай ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Third time in China and it keeps getting better and crazier each time. Having checked into the hostel, I went for a walk through Green Lake park (feels like a smaller version of central park) beforeЧитать далее
Lijiang
15 марта 2015 г., Китай ⋅ ⛅ 4 °C
One word - Disneyland. Lijiang Old Town had been somewhat ruined by the consumerism of tourism. The old cobbled streets with rickety wooden buildings are an enchanting place to walk around in theЧитать далее
Tiger Leaping Gorge
17 марта 2015 г., Китай ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Tiger Leaping Gorge is one of the deepest Gorges in the world and has a famous trail to tackle. The bus dropped us off at the beginning and the driver pointed vaguely up a dirt road. Eager to begin,Читать далее
Lijiang
18 марта 2015 г., Китай ⋅ 🌙 13 °C
Celebrating St Patrick's day in style at an Irish Pub in China. After successfully completing the gorge trail we attacked all boissons Irish; Bulmers, Guinness, Baileys and, because it's green,Читать далее
Lanzhou
19 марта 2015 г., Китай ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C
Not a terribly exciting day although Ellen on the bus did help me with my Chinese. I can now count to ten and vaguely ask to go to the train station. Essential vocabulary in my case.
Lanzhou is aЧитать далее
Dunhuang
20 марта 2015 г., Китай ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
An oasis town and once an important hub of the silk road, Dunhuang has little left of its historical character. However, out of town lies a wealth of fascinating sites.
Arriving at the train stationЧитать далее
Turpan
22 марта 2015 г., Китай ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C
Turpan - death valley of China. At night it is freezing cold but by day the weather rivals that of a hot British August afternoon. I arrived at the train station after another overnight train to a mobЧитать далее
Kashgar
24 марта 2015 г., Китай ⋅ 🌙 11 °C
After a long overnight train I arrived in the incredible city of Kashgar. Here, the majority of people are Uighur and of Islamic faith. The food and architecture a very middle eastern inflenced.Читать далее
Osh
28 марта 2015 г., Киргизия ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C
Here's a story about how to get from one ex-communist country to another.
First, get on a sleeper bus with thirty odd chinese men. Warning: you will be required to squeeze on to a bed the size of aЧитать далее
Bishkek
29 марта 2015 г., Киргизия ⋅ ☁️ -3 °C
Let's play a game - spot the Lada! They are everywhere and seem to be the automotive brand of choice for the police force. So USSR. Today it started snowing and tomorrow the "high" is -6. I intend toЧитать далее
Bishkek
30 марта 2015 г., Киргизия ⋅ 🌫 -9 °C
Miriam - schnee! And lots of it.
It has been below freezing for two days here in Bishkek, plummeting to a painful -13 yesterday morning.
The post office is very old fashioned. A giant map of theЧитать далее
Almaty
2 апреля 2015 г., Казахстан ⋅ ⛅ 2 °C
Iz nice.
Tehran
4 апреля 2015 г., Иран ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
Shiraz
6 апреля 2015 г., Иран ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Esfahan
7 апреля 2015 г., Иран ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
Kashan
10 апреля 2015 г., Иран ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Tehran
11 апреля 2015 г., Иран ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Istanbul
12 апреля 2015 г., Турция ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
Konya
15 апреля 2015 г., Турция ⋅ 🌙 7 °C
Istanbul (again...)
19 апреля 2015 г., Турция ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C
Sofia
20 апреля 2015 г., Болгария ⋅ ☀️ 4 °C
Nis
23 апреля 2015 г., Сербия ⋅ 🌙 8 °C
Pristina
23 апреля 2015 г., Косово ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
Skopje
26 апреля 2015 г., Северная Македония ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C











































Richard BraithwaiteAs you are in the land of the Buddhas you should be reading the Heart Sutra; http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/heartsutra.html