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bye bye stretchy boy

bye bye stretchy boy

so it’s here that i stop moving for a while. i’ve got an apartment in shanghai and a load of work to catch up on. this 8 week tour of china, tibet and nepal has been AWESOME. thanks stretch, it’s been a fantastic experience traveling with you. (you have no idea how wasted i was [...]

kathmandu dude

kathmandu dude

kathmandu is cool. ok so there is a civil war on, there’s hardly any tourists, all the bars are empty. BUT. everyone speaks english and you can get a hotel for a dollar. not only that but nepalese hashish. mmmmm. oh it’s lovely. you can get any food you like, hire a fake harley davidson [...]

border shock

so we finally got our ever so dusty trusty land cruiser down off everest – i say trusty, we had 2 punctures, the rear brakes siezed up and my door was help shut with gaffa tape. at the chinese border we were greated with stern gaurds taking they’re job seriously, i almost had my camera [...]

mount everest base camp

mount everest base camp

there is something very humbling about this big hill. maybe the fact that you can see it 2 hours before you get there. maybe it’s the fact that at 17,600 ft you can’t breathe when you look at it. or maybe it’s the fact that it’s so big, it’s the biggest thing you’ve ever seen, [...]

lhasa

lhasa

i’m in lhasa, tibet. one of the highest cities in the world at over 3600m. my first 24 hours i couldn’t breath, so this is what it’s like to be 80. you must visit tibet, it’s almost gone. more faces of tibet on my photography site…

went to see the pandas

went to see the pandas

went to see the pandas. i really enjoyed it! (large picture is different)

buses, horns and stage fright

buses, horns and stage fright

yesterday we took our luxury 20 hour bus from yangshou to chengdu, firstly a 20 hours bus is never 20 hours, it took 25, and luxury really only meant that i had somewhere to sit. we left at 4 pm and we reached the mountains by midnight, it was a shame i only saw the [...]

yangshou backpacker mecca

yangshou backpacker mecca

on our first day here we met some travelers who said they’d come to yangshou for a few days and hadn’t managed to leave (2 years later). what’s so great about it? a few hours later i was offered a job, somewhere to live and carried on drinking in a funky western run bar into [...]