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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 281: Hey Ya!

Day 281: Hey Ya!

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:8 October 2009
  • Post category:South Africa/Southern Africa/Swaziland/The Odyssey Expedition
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Staggeringly early bus to Swaziland, but I needn't have bothered. Let me explain; I rose at the butt-crack to get my ultra-early bus across the border into Swaziland, which is…

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Read more about the article Day 280: …And Nothing But The Tooth

Day 280: …And Nothing But The Tooth

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:7 October 2009
  • Post category:South Africa/Southern Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
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Being a massive four months behind schedule now, I don't really have time for dossing about, but today I really needed to get things done. Jeans and teeth where the…

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Read more about the article Day 279: The Highest Pub in Africa

Day 279: The Highest Pub in Africa

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:6 October 2009
  • Post category:Lesotho/South Africa/Southern Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:1 Comment

I actually didn't want to go all the way to Durban – I wanted to get off at a place called Pietermaritzburg. I heard you could get minibus from there…

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Read more about the article Day 278: Sunrise

Day 278: Sunrise

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:5 October 2009
  • Post category:South Africa/Southern Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
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Crikey, I could have done without this early start, but it's all power for the cause. Today in a move guaranteed to get me another 500 clicks on this website,…

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Read more about the article Day 277: The Nuns of Gaborone

Day 277: The Nuns of Gaborone

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:4 October 2009
  • Post category:Botswana/South Africa/Southern Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:1 Comment

Best blog entry title of The Odyssey? Up at 6am and down to the nearby service station where one goes to cadge a lift to the border. Was waiting until…

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Read more about the article Day 276: A Break for the Border

Day 276: A Break for the Border

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:3 October 2009
  • Post category:South Africa/Southern Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
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A little water to help slacken my brain's outer membrane and I shook off my hangover. Andy and I compared notes from the previous evening, but both our notebooks draw…

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Read more about the article Day 275: Five Quid A Page?!

Day 275: Five Quid A Page?!

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:2 October 2009
  • Post category:South Africa/Southern Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
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The British High Commission in Pretoria is a little tricky to find – I wandered about for about half-an-hour before I realised that the building with no sign and no…

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Read more about the article Day 274: Cool Run-Ins

Day 274: Cool Run-Ins

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:1 October 2009
  • Post category:Namibia/South Africa/Southern Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:2 Comments

So… into the tenth month on the road and I finally, finally reach South Africa, what had, in my original estimation, been the half-way point for this adventure. That was…

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Read more about the article Day 273: Intercape Mainliner

Day 273: Intercape Mainliner

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 September 2009
  • Post category:Namibia/South Africa/Southern Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
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It was a comfortable night on Tashia's couch, interrupted only by the once-an-hour shrill of my mobile phone waking me to change the video tapes that I was uploading onto…

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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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