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Day 723: Fairytale of New Guinea

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:25 December 2010
  • Post category:Australasia/Australia/Papua New Guinea/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:6 Comments

24.12.10: Amazingly, the ferry boat arrived at Wewak early: by 4am, we were less than a mile from the port.  I stood out on deck: it had been a hot…

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Day 722: He Got Made, He Got Wewak’d

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:24 December 2010
  • Post category:Australasia/Indonesia/Papua New Guinea/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:3 Comments

23.12.10: Up early as Jan wanted to get to the border the moment it opened. Mike and Harald had left in the wee small hours, so I checked out on…

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Days 715-721: My Papua Visa Hell

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:23 December 2010
  • Post category:Australasia/Favourite/Indonesia/Papua New Guinea/Rants/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:11 Comments

16.12.10-22.12.10: You know, when I stepped out of the Vietnamese Consulate back in September I honestly thought that my days of being trapped like a cog in the bureaucratic nightmare…

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How To Travel The World On The Cheap!

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:21 December 2010
  • Post category:Canada/Cape Verde/Egypt/Featured/Gabon/Indonesia/Tunisia/Turkey/USA
  • Post comments:1 Comment

I've been stuck on the border with Papua New Guinea for the last few days, so not wanting to waste my time I made this here video for ya! It's…

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THE ODYSSEY WORLD VISA GUIDE

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:17 December 2010
  • Post category:Featured
  • Post comments:5 Comments

One of the things that holds back many people from travelling is the prospect of wasting time and effort attempting to get into countries that would quite prefer it if…

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Days 713-714: The Floating Menagerie

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:16 December 2010
  • Post category:Australasia/Indonesia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:2 Comments

14.12.10-15.12.10: Crikey! This ship is even worse than the last one. At least on board the last on I had a bed. Here it’s every man for himself, and as…

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Days 707-712: Fuzzy Logic

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:14 December 2010
  • Post category:Australasia/Indonesia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:3 Comments

08.12.10-13.12.10: The ship came into the sleepy port town of Sorong in West Papua pretty much on time, which made me happy.  At the port I was met by the…

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Days 704-706: The Power and The Pelni

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:8 December 2010
  • Post category:Australasia/Indonesia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:4 Comments

05.12.10-07.12.10: Noah had nothing on this. All life is here – spread out all over the floor. Picnics, knick-knacks, porridge, rice and tic-tacs. Families, feuds, filth, food and funny lookin'…

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Day 700: The Shape of Things To Come

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:3 December 2010
  • Post category:Australasia/Indonesia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:3 Comments

01.12.10: Seven HUNDRED days on the road!! Bloomin' eck. The boat to Sumbawa didn’t leave until 10am, so I kicked myself for not having a lie-in and a coffee.  Onboard…

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Day 699: The Ruteng Clan

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 November 2010
  • Post category:Australasia/Indonesia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:0 Comments

30.11.10: After dragging myself out of bed at 6.30am, I wasn’t too chuffed when I was told that the minibus to the next waypoint, Ruteng, didn’t leave until 8am.  But…

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  • Part I: Man of the World
    • 1. South America
    • 2. The Caribbean
    • 3. Central & North America
    • 4. Europe
    • 5. West Africa
    • 6. Central Africa
    • 7. Southern Africa
    • 8. East Africa
  • Part II: Top of the World
    • 1. The Middle East
    • 2. North Africa
    • 3. Central Asia
    • 4. Arabia
    • 5. South Asia
    • 6. East Asia
    • 7. Southeast Asia
    • 8. Australasia
  • Part III: End of the World
    • 1. Intermission
    • 2. Melanesia
    • 3. Polynesia
    • 4. Micronesia
    • 5. Return to SE Asia
    • 6. Marooned!
    • 7. The Final Frontiers
    • 8. The Journey Home
  • Epilogue

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