Travel blog by a global nomad
I lifted the flap on my bag and saw an empty pocket. The pocket where my passport was at 10am when I left the hotel. It was now 11.27am. I had a flight at 5.55pm.
“My passports are gone!” I calmly commented to my sister.
“Are you sure?” she asked, glancing around the jewellry store [...]
I am getting very tired of being ripped off. In Lhasa it was the bag in which no store would come down in price for me when trying to negotiate, in Beijing its the taxi’s - the 6 yuan I got ripped off on yesterday, the 40 yuan on the way to the airport today [...]
Day 2 begins on my exodus out of Tibet to somewhere civillised… Today was to be an endlessly long day to fly the not particularly short distance from Tibet to Beijing. It was a day I could do without….
We were picked up at 8am to be driven to the airport. Once again, I got to [...]
At last! It’s time to go on break! With everything in order, I took the opportunity to leave Shigatse in the morning so I could spend the afternoon in Lhasa, an experience i missed when I arrived. I didn’t know it, but Lhasa is about an hours drive from the airport…
I was driven Shigtatse from [...]
Happy Birthday me! But what a woeful group we were… One of our group had returned from NZ recently and bought with him a really awful flu which was sweeping through the office, knocking us all on our backs. And let me tell you, it is no fun having a cold at 3,900m! Start getting [...]
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