A travel blog with a conscience
| M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| « Jul | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
| 29 | 30 | 31 | ||||
With Tibet in the news, I can’t help recalling of the time I spent in Tibet in August 2005. It was quite a revelation. Hostilities were already boiling underneath the veneer of peace and prosperity that the Chinese invader government took pains to project. It started at the border between Nepal and Tibet. When the [...]
People
Strangely enough, it’s the people that either endear
or repulse you. Here, as in the physical landscape contrasts,
you have contrasting personalities. The poor are
hardcore poor, ranging from the homeless (they sleep in the park like
it’s a huge camping trip but without the tents somewhere near the expressway in
Manila itself or sometimes just on
pavements. Not even makeshift [...]
Manila is chaotic, polluted - if you walk, you breathe
in tonnes of exhaust fumes and smells of stale urine.
If you take the jeepney, it’s very cramped but
relatively cheap. If you take the taxi, it’s 30 Pesos
flag fare. Everything except ciggi and alcohol is more
expensive than KL and Bkk. Pineapple rice costs 300
pesos (abt RM24) at [...]
 |  |  |  |  |  |
 |  |  |  |  |  |
 |  |  |  |  | |
| By N2H | |||||
