2002-2005 (c) GetJealous.com, All rights reserved. http://www.getjealous.com/notmiles/rss.xml http://www.getjealous.com/notmiles http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2719002&go=notmiles PANAMA #2We stayed in a cloud forest eco hostel in La Fortuna national park where rufous tailed and violet sabrewing hummingbirds constantly visited the bird feeders from sunrise to sunset. They were completely unperturbed when people sat just an arms length from the feeder and they would often fly through the communal area within inches of the guests heads, the snap of their wings taking people b... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2719002&go=notmiles Fri, 8 Jun 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2716926&go=notmiles PANAMAOur first view of Panama was from the taxi window as we cruised towards Panama City and what struck me the most, as a horizon filled with skyscrapers loomed ever closer with a pastille pink and orange sunset painting the sky behind it, was how modern it is.The area of Panama Viejo is the original Panama city. It dates from the year 1519 and was the first colonial settlement on the western, (... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2716926&go=notmiles Wed, 6 Jun 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2712117&go=notmiles YANGON (RANGOON)Central Yangon is awash with tall colonial buildings boasting the kind of faded charm and grandeur that one might expect of the neglected Victorian buildings found at English seaside towns. Dusty and uncared for, crumbling onto streets that are kept remarkably clean for an Asian city, they evoke romantic images of the colonial past that built them.In the cool of the morning the... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2712117&go=notmiles Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2707705&go=notmiles KYAUKME (01/o5/2012)Kyaukme is a small town to the east of Mandalay set in a landscape of rolling hills. The area is often referred to as the Switzerland of Myanmar. The trekking here, through forests, hills and tea plantations has come highly recommended and so we made a detour to do just that.We arrived on a bus from Mandalay driving into the early evening. It was dark and the rain had been prac... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2707705&go=notmiles Sun, 1 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2702398&go=notmiles What a couple of weeks! I went to the beach in a tiny town by the name of Varkala to chill out, smoke and drink cheap cocktails and beer while Emma went to an Ashram, (lesbian sex cult for yoga enthusiasts to the layman). Varkala is in Kerala on the south west coast of India and stretches along a clifftop with a lovely sandy beach below. Restaurants and shops line the cliffs edge, mostly owned by... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2702398&go=notmiles Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2700108&go=notmiles This evening I was taken with some singing and the sound of drums while feeling strangely compelled to buy a marble statuette of the Hindu deity Ganesh, always depicted as a human with an elephants head and a bowl of sweets in one of his four hands. I'd stood in the street earlier today as a woman delicately carved them in a niche, just off one of the back streets in the old town of Udaipur.I was ... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2700108&go=notmiles Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2698899&go=notmiles India is an intriguing place, unique and colourful. Full of history, and religions older than Christianity and Islam. Traditions and schools of thought that stretch farther back than your imagination can cope with. Peaceful, serene and spiritual, it is a land that conjures up these wonderfully romantic images that were described by the likes of Kipling et al, which were of course written from the... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2698899&go=notmiles Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2692448&go=notmiles INDIAIn the sixth century BC, when the Buddha (Prince Siddartha Guatama) left his palace for the first time at the age of 29, he saw an old man, a sick man and a corpse and he despaired.That's what we saw after we alighted, I mean fought and squeezed our way off of, our bone rattling 30 seat bus with our other 275 fellow passengers at Gorakhpur, India, having just crossed the Nepalese border.I've ... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2692448&go=notmiles Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2690567&go=notmiles Nepal.The scenery became gradually more verdant and the climate much more affable as we left the Tibetan plateau and descended into Nepal, it's true beauty revealed itself as we bumped along towards Kathmandu in a hired jeep. It was love at first sight. An impossibly blue river, low at this time of year and meandering sheepishly through a stony, boulder strewn river bed. Hills dense with trees, te... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2690567&go=notmiles Mon, 5 Dec 2011 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2685770&go=notmiles Tibet. It is only possible to visit Tibet with a tour group and a fixed itinerary. Certain areas are forbidden to tourists, as I understand it, but if you have the money you can make your own tour provided you have a guide, driver and the correct permits/visas etc. This is of course to keep tabs on exactly where you are as you can not veer from your given itinerary, (which will have been approved ... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2685770&go=notmiles Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT