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    • Part I: Man of the World
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      • 6. Central Africa
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Day 1,371: Icarus, Not Daedalus

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:9 October 2012
  • Post category:Marooned!/Sri Lanka/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:10 Comments

Tue 02.10.12 My incredible plan for Sunday night was stay up all night drinking and partying at Chili’s Bar in Unawatuna. Then I was to take first express bus back…

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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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Day 602: Easy Peasy Nepalesy

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:28 August 2010
  • Post category:India/Nepal/South Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:1 Comment

27.08.10: Duff information can be a real pain in this line of work, but it’s hard to know who you can trust.  Yesterday’s taxi driver was right about getting to…

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Day 601: I Feel My Luck Could Change

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:27 August 2010
  • Post category:Bangladesh/Bhutan/India/South Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:0 Comments

26.08.10: Today started with a bit of a disaster when I awoke to find that my new laptop, Sony Jim, that I had cunningly placed between me and the wall…

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Day 600: Bad Day At Black Rock

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:26 August 2010
  • Post category:India/South Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:1 Comment

25.08.10 SIX HUNDRED DAYS ON THE ROAD!! Do I win a fiver? And so the train pulled into Calcutta’s Howrah train station around 11am.  The plan was to head to…

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Day 599: Chai Chai Chai

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:25 August 2010
  • Post category:India/South Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:0 Comments

24.08.10: Bright and early for the 27 hour train journey to Calcutta and it was indeed sweet to be back on a train again after the horror that is an…

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Day 598: Never The Twain

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:24 August 2010
  • Post category:India/South Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:0 Comments

23.08.10: Arrived in the town of Salem at some disgraceful hour of the morning – it wasn’t even light yet.  The bus was an old rust bucket held together with…

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Days 592-597: Now Then, Kerala

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:23 August 2010
  • Post category:India/South Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:4 Comments

17.08.10-22.08.10: Well it was another frustrating (but remarkably pleasant) week in Kochi spent contacting shipping firms, tour companies, even the head of the Sri Lanka tourist board in the UK,…

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Days 585-592: The Boat Race

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:16 August 2010
  • Post category:India/South Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:3 Comments

09.08.10-16.08.10: “I always like going south – it feels like walking downhill” – Treebeard India, being the awkward bugger that she is, flips the usual northern charm/southern coldness idiom on…

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Day 584: The Bombay Boo-Boo

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:13 August 2010
  • Post category:India/Rants/South Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:2 Comments

08.08.10: Grr.  Sometimes your Lonely Planet can literally save your life, other times it can make your life a misery.  Today it was a case of the latter.  I got…

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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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