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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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Read more about the article Day 85: Did You See Any Cubans?

Day 85: Did You See Any Cubans?

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:26 March 2009
  • Post category:Central & North America/The Odyssey Expedition/USA
  • Post comments:0 Comments

As a wonderful final flourish, and as if to prove how much better Mexican bus services are compared to the American ones, my bus got to the border 45 minutes…

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Read more about the article Day 84: Chilli Con Carnage

Day 84: Chilli Con Carnage

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:25 March 2009
  • Post category:Central & North America/Mexico/The Odyssey Expedition/USA
  • Post comments:1 Comment

So the day was spent entirely at the mercy of the rather wonderful Mexican bus service. Leigh got off the bus somewhere in the middle of nowhere to climb a…

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Read more about the article Day 83: Mexico, third time lucky…

Day 83: Mexico, third time lucky…

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:24 March 2009
  • Post category:Central & North America/Mexico/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:2 Comments

In the morning, I made a huge arse of myself trying to pull up the anchor (all those years of never going to the gym finally paid off BIGTIME) and…

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Read more about the article Day 82: Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

Day 82: Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:23 March 2009
  • Post category:Central & North America/Cuba/Mexico/The Odyssey Expedition
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The madness of leaving at night, drunk and without a weather window slowly dawned on us - looking to port and looking to starboard, electrical storms cackled like mischievous witches…

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Read more about the article Day 65: Entering America

Day 65: Entering America

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:6 March 2009
  • Post category:Central & North America/Mexico/The Odyssey Expedition/USA
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All I got to see of Mexico City was the outskirts and the bus station, but I hear it's not much too look at anyway. Driving reasonably close to Tikal…

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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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