10 Important Tips for Visiting Kathmandu, Nepal If you’re heading to Nepal, this post provides some very useful information for your arrival in Kathmandu, the nation’s capital. For my recent trip to Nepal, despite reading up and preparing beforehand as I usually do, I didn’t find any guidebooks or online sources that mentioned these super-useful […]
Travel Tales: Waking Up in a Medieval Town
Travel Tales: Waking Up in a Medieval Town I was awakened at dawn by live accordion music. Whhaaat the..? Before I could make any sense of it, a loud bell rang out three clear notes. The accordion continued its melodic song. Despite my weariness this was just too bizarre to sleep through. I rolled out […]
PHOTO GALLERY: Pashupatinath Temple – Kathmandu
PHOTO GALLERY: Pashupatinath Temple – Kathmandu Pashupathinath Temple is the most important Hindu temple in the entire nation of Nepal. Located along the scenic banks of the holy Bagmati River on the eastern outskirts of Kathmandu, it is also a major site for Hindu cremation ceremonies, which take place almost daily. Both royalty and […]
LashWorldTour NEWS: 1000 Fans on Facebook!
LashWorldTour NEWS: 1000 Fans on Facebook! At long last, LashWorldTour has finally reached the first major benchmark on Facebook: 1000 Fans. And it happened soon after I arrived in Kathmandu, Nepal to apply for my first visa to India. Good timing as I’m about to embark on a whole new travel adventure after 15 years […]
PHOTO GALLERY: Kathmandu, Nepal
PHOTO GALLERY: Kathmandu, Nepal Kathmandu is a city dominated by brick: brick houses, brick shops and brick temples. Established way back in the 700s AD, the city’s gorgeous Newari architecture developed over several centuries, reaching it’s most glorious craftsmanship in the 1200s and 1300s AD. The city is full of narrow stone, dirt and slightly […]
Travel Perspectives: Should I Live in San Francisco?
Travel Perspectives: Should I Live in San Francisco? A lot of people ask me if I plan to eventually return to the USA to ‘settle down’ and establish a home. In reply, I wrote a post entitled Would I Ever Live in the United States? I explained that, for many many reasons I actually have […]
LashWorldTour NEWS: My Guest Post is on HikeBikeTravel
LashWorldTour NEWS: My Guest Post is on HikeBikeTravel Lovely Leigh McAdam invited me to guest post on her aptly named travel blog, HikeBikeTravel. As you can tell from the title, Leigh and I have a lot in common! For her travel adventure site, I’ve written the story of my solo ascent of volcanic Mt Semeru […]
Working Crew on Amazon Survivor pt 8 – Amazon Animal Sightings & Final Wrap
Working Crew on Amazon Survivor pt 8 – Amazon Animal Sightings & Final Wrap Throughout the two-month production of Amazon Survivor we crew were very fortunate to see a large variety of wild Amazonian animals. The easiest animals to spot were the various monkeys and birds enticed to hang around the hotel grounds by trays […]
Travel Tips: Overdeveloped Beaches and Islands to Avoid in SE Asia
Travel Tips: Overdeveloped Beaches and Islands to Avoid in SE Asia My idea of a great tropical island or beach is one that is ‘au naturale’. When I head to a beach I want to be completely surrounded by nature: sky, clouds, sun, sea, sand and trees. I want to hear nothing but wind in […]
PHOTO GALLERY: Train Journey Over Gokteik Gorge – Myanmar
PHOTO GALLERY: Train Journey Over Gokteik Gorge – Myanmar One of my favorite experiences in Myanmar during my month-long visit in early 2013 was taking a day-long train journey across the Shan Plateau and Myanmar’s famous Gokteik Bridge. The bridge was built by the British in the late 1880s during their occupation of Burma. Upon […]