How One Man’s Travel Visions Inspired a Media Empire Ranzo’s vision is to inspire people to look beyond their cultural boundaries and repair the image of black people around the world. He runs a Youtube channel called Black Experience Japan (BEJ), which interviews black people who have travelled to live and work in Asia. The aim is to highlight the wide...
Buddhist Adventures On The Crystal Island of Koh Phangan Thailand was easily the most memorable, tropical country I’ve been to. It has everything you could possibly want in a sunny paradise: beaches, palm trees, parties and breathtaking islands. But that wasn’t why I went backpacking northern Thailand. I went because I wanted to learn more about the country I’d heard...
5 BEST PLACES TO TRAVEL ALONE IN ASIA I wish I’d known about the best places to travel alone in Asia before I set off on my journey.If I had, my journey would have gone a lot more smoothly. As it happens, I ended up discovering many of the best places quite by accident as I went along. Who knows? Perhaps that was just as well. After all, the greatest adventures are...
SHORT TREKS IN NEPAL: A SELECTION OF THE VERY BEST If you’re looking for short treks in Nepal, you’ve come to the right place. This blog features some of the very best.But first a bit of context. You see, hiking in the Himalayas is a right of passage for most seasoned backpackers. Some of the most popular hikes include the Annapurna Circuit, Everest Base...
I was in Myanmar when we walked into the dorm room. There were many elderly and disabled Burmese men in various states of suffering and the smell of sewage filled the air. The reason for that was because there was one very unwell and severely disabled man who was lying in his own excrement on a bed in the centre of the room. We learned that he had been left like that...
India is one of the most fascinating and majestic countries you can visit. It is said that you can explore India for several years and still only see a fraction of what she has to offer. If you visit India in the spirit of acceptance and the willingness to learn and soak in a culture that may be vastly different to your own, you will be richly rewarded. Observing the...
I’d just left the soft, warm Nirvana of Thailand where the memories of the beach and the mind-blowing conversations I’d had with people were still fresh in my mind. I was very sad to leave the tropical paradise after spending weeks volunteering there and for the first time since travelling, I was looking at my journey to Myanmar with a little trepidation...
Chaos, crowds and humidity greeted me as I stepped off the plane in Nepal and landed at its main airport, Tribhuvan. After a two week stint in Naples, Italy, I was ready for something a little different and I was not disappointed.
