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Bishkek the Black Hole
I’m writting from Bishkek, Kyrgyztan, where I’ve been in or around for the past two weeks. I’ve had an amazing time here, partly because the country is full of wonderful warm people and incredibly diverse and beautiful scenery, but mostly because of a small group of fellow travelers who have blown me away with just how cool people can be.
In roughly the order I’ve met...
June 2008
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An article on sanitary conditions in Delhi →
Just in case any of you were wondering whether India, which is seeing staggering increases in wealth these days, has been doing an adequate job keeping its sanitation efforts up to par with its economic growth…check out this article.
It turns out the water used by the top medical research institute and hospital in the country contains the following: Typhoid, Hepatitis A and E (I...
Singapore from the air
Here are some more pictures of singapore, taken at night from this viewing wheel, which is bigger than the one in London by 20 meters or so:
This is the central business district. In the foreground, that highway will be one of the places where the first formula F-1 night race will take place, I think in August.
A different angle!
The Durian Caterpillars again, with the old Supreme...
Food
Food in Singapore is a reason to be alive. I learned this intitally from this article, which you can only read the abstract of unfortunately.
I didn’t do as much exotic eating as I hoped, partly becuase I was on my own, and felt like ordering an entire stingray for myself would have been wasteful, but here are a two pictures of meals I ate, both were out of this world good, even if they...
Singapore!!
From Phenom Penh, it was on to Singapore, where I laid seige to the Indian Embassy for a week before brutally crushing it’s beaurocrats and claiming my visa! Seriously, Indian visas are a pain in the ass to get.
Here are some pictures at nightof this marvelous city , which I loved so much I am seriously considering moving hear after school.
Central business district.
The new...
Toul Sleng
Here are some of my photos from Toul Sleng prison. See below for more commentary.
Here’s one without the ugly people blocking the view. Angkor Wat is supposedly the largest religious structure in the world. It seemed pretty big, but I remember the Vatican feeling larger.
Updates!
I’m laid up in Nepal with a bum stomach following a 9 day river rafting trip down the Sun Koshi. Bad news for me…good news for you, dear reader. Get ready for some serious updating.