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Day 1,006: As I Went Down In The River To Lae

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:5 October 2011
  • Post category:Melanesia/Papua New Guinea/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:1 Comment

03.10.11: In the morning Mums Singin was good enough to pick me up from Katherine’s flat for a quick tour of the museum that she curated before I left for…

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Days 1,003-1,005: A Weekend In Madang

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:5 October 2011
  • Post category:Melanesia/Papua New Guinea/The Odyssey Expedition
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30.09.11-02.10.11: The Lutheran Shipping ferry slid into Madang port bang on 7am, which was the exact time the captain told me it would arrive. I have to say, I was…

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Day 1,002: Fire and Brimstone

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 September 2011
  • Post category:Melanesia/Papua New Guinea/The Odyssey Expedition
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29.09.11: Righty-ho Graham you great big travelling monkey, it’s time to hit the road. Tony called me out of bed at 6am as the PMV (a shared taxi-truck) to Wewak…

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Day 1,001: Hey White Man!

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 September 2011
  • Post category:Melanesia/Papua New Guinea/The Odyssey Expedition
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28.09.11: When I say the Papua New Guineans are the friendliest bunch of people you’ll ever come across, I hope you don’t take me for a liar. These guys make…

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Day 1,000: Wewak To The Future

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 September 2011
  • Post category:Melanesia/Papua New Guinea/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:1 Comment

27.09.11: It’s Day M. As I stand outside Wewak aerodrome on the northern fringe of Papua New Guinea, I dip my hat on the morning of Christmas Eve 2010 and……

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Day 994: Beyond the Valley of the Ultra-Conservatives

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:26 September 2011
  • Post category:Australia/Intermission/Papua New Guinea/The Odyssey Expedition
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21.09.11: I left Mandy in Melbourne’s wee Tullamarine airport on Tuesday evening. We had spent the afternoon getting the last things sorted: chief of which was a new click-click camera…

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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 599: Chai Chai Chai

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