Backpacking India (Part 9: McLeod Ganj) regularly brings in some awesome hatemail. I bask in it. It is almost universally idiotic, only once every never do I get a message that sort of has a point, except that when you think about it, it actually doesn’t. But most of the time the arguments crumple like a Chinese school building. This […]
Spending several months at a time, and making my base there, I have been returning to Thailand’s Koh Tao island every year for the past ten. There are several great reasons for that, as well as a multitude of tiny ones. It is a comfy place. It is a quaint place. It is fun, it is a party, yet it […]
About the Trek Located in the dead centre of the Nepal Himalaya, the Annapurna Circuit trek is a spectacular experience, and possibly one of the best hiking adventures in the world. The stunning scenery, variety of animals, convenient food and board, great exercise and plentiful sunshine all combine into a memorable experience, usually backed up by 2000 […]
Air travel. Many people dread it. I guess it takes a special breed of masochist to enjoy being canned at 30,000 feet with a bunch of mammals, all of varied hygiene levels. Throw into the mix a healthy dose of turbulence, flatulence, and crew insolence, and you have yourself an adventure, but not the kind that you share on Facebook […]
In April 2012, without neither a plan nor notice, I ended up returning to Banff, my dinky little hometown in the heart of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. While I was not born there, I first explored the area in 2002 after being convinced by my friend Matt that it is the proverbial “cat’s ass” (you’ll have to look up that […]
I have been moderately fascinated by North Korea as long as I have been aware of its existence and its political system. An isolated, poor country, shunned by its neighbours and run by a psychopathic government… What’s there not to be curious about? Often referred to as “communist”, North Korea is as communist as Dick Cheney is a Democrat… The […]
Photography is not my speciality. Even though I started documenting my travels way back in 2003 using a Fuji digicam which shot grainy 1 megapixel snaps, I only seem to get one good photo out of maybe 1000 trigger pulls… It is safe to say that Monkeetime is not and probably will not be about quality photos. For that, you […]
Here is the second part of our journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway. In this gallery you will find pics from Novosibirsk and Moscow.
This is Monkeetime’s most successful backpacking video project. I had already visited India on several occasions, and every time had judged the country to be an absolute, mind-blowing, life-altering, stomach-upsetting acid trip. All in a good way. Usually. The cultural diversity, the mix of riches and poverty, the insanely rich history, the population density and many many other factors all […]
Mongolia is a massive, landlocked, mostly deserted place where the sky seems to kiss the earth and where you easily forget that our planet is home to billions of people. Not exactly on any major backpacking routes, the country is still seldom visited, as most backpackers tend to roll through the “pancake trail” of South East Asia. Thus the land […]
Sandy beaches, palm trees, water as blue as the sky, and serenity: who doesn’t love this? Every year I spend a few months on Koh Tao, which is Thailand’s little slice of paradise, and now let me tell you about it! At 21 square kilometres, Koh Tao is a relatively small island, a quiet slice of tropical paradise on the […]
Brunei popped up on my travel itinerary quite spontaneously. I needed to do a visa run, and havin already gone to just about every place in S. E. Asia with the exception of Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Brunei, I though, “fuck it, Brunei it is!”, given the difficulties in getting to the other two. I booked a dirt […]
After finishing yet another contract as an English teacher in Taiwan, I decided to head to Thailand for some scuba diving and banana shakes… However, seeing that Cebu Pacific Airlines (which offered the cheapest flight) had a stopover in Manila ANYWAYS, it made sense to, well, explore a bit. Seeing that I was heading to Thailand’s […]
Sandy beaches, palm trees, water as blue as the sky, and serenity: who doesn’t love this? Every year I spend a few months on Koh Tao, which is Thailand’s little slice of paradise, and now let me tell you about it! At 21 square kilometres, Koh Tao is a relatively small island, a quiet slice of tropical paradise on the […]
This is an old blog/journal writeup of mine from my adventure on the Trans-Siberian railway. Between the end of May and the end of June 2003 myself and a friend (Ed, of the China blog fame) traversed the full length of Russia on a train. Starting in the far-eastern city of Vladivostok, we spent 3 weeks getting to St. Petersburg, […]
Brunei popped up on my travel itinerary quite spontaneously. I needed to do a visa run, and havin already gone to just about every place in S. E. Asia with the exception of Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Brunei, I though, “fuck it, Brunei it is!”, given the difficulties in getting to the other two. I booked a dirt […]
After putting up my video Brunei | Tattered and Brainwashed, I have realized that a can of worms had been opened. It was a torrent of stupid comments from brainwashed puppets defending their precious sultan and their backwards kingdom. I found it rather comical, because I was actually not that much of an asshole, and simply listed some stuff […]
Backpacking India (Part 9: McLeod Ganj) regularly brings in some awesome hatemail. I bask in it. It is almost universally idiotic, only once every never do I get a message that sort of has a point, except that when you think about it, it actually doesn’t. But most of the time the arguments crumple like a Chinese school building. This […]
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