The Most Disgusting, Slummy and Awful Place I’ve Ever Stayed…for Five Days

Free Food With 60,000 Friends at the Golden Temple Free Kitchen in Amritsar

A Golden Temple Sunrise, Sunset and Fireworks Display // Amritsar, India

Sleeping With Pilgrims Inside the Golden Temple, Amritsar

An Ode to the Indian Sleeper Train // Poetry, Stories & Pix

Shiva: My Orphaned Indian Cousin // Interesting People Series

The Bridges of Rishikesh: How do they Not Collapse? // With Videos

Channeling My Inner Fab 4 at the Beatles Ashram // Oms, Art, Music & Abandonment

Jordan Walked From Canada to Mexico | What’s in His Backpack?

Prakesh: The Master of Mathematics // Interesting People Series

Adventures in Thailand

The Most Disgusting, Slummy and Awful Place I’ve Ever Stayed…for Five Days

A former whorehouse and home of at least two murders and one ghost, the Overstay featured shattered panes of glass in the hallways, toilets with no pipes, dozens of travelers sleeping on the floor and bedbugs galore. And I stayed there for five nights.
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Thank Heaven for 7-Eleven

We met a group of girls while volunteering at Sadhana Forest who told us that we would spend tons of time in 7-Eleven in Thailand. As we usually try to live like the locals do we could not fathom how this could possibly be true…until we arrived in Bangkok. Literally, …
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Meat on a Stick…And Other Tasty Treats

After the India/Sri Lanka half of the trip was spent with a primarily vegetarian diet, I was very excited to arrive in Bangkok and find the streets filled with street vendors selling sausages, chicken and beef on a stick for around 30 cents each. They make a great snack in …
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We Saw Other Stuff in Bangkok Too!

In addition to playing with water and checking out civil unrest, we also did some sightseeing in Bangkok. Our first day we headed over to the weekend market, which had more than 200,000 stalls selling everything from clothes to jewelry, handicrafts, food, pets and trinkets from the USA. Another day …
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The Streets of Bangkok: Water Fights, Civil Unrest and The Worst Place We’ve Ever Stayed…This and That

Not sure what we did to deserve it, but our flight from Sri Lanka to Chennai (the first of 3 flights to get to Bangkok) was upgraded to first class. It was awesome! The best pad thai I had was from a little old woman with a street stall who …
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The Streets of Bangkok: Water Fights, Civil Unrest and the Worst Place We've Ever Stayed…Photos and Videos

As always, here is the full photo gallery for this entry. There are lots that aren’t in the posts so check them out! Or visit the flickr page directly: Bangkok photos Red Shirt Rally full photo set And the video links from the posts… A concert of traditional northeastern style …
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