Journeys beyond the obvious

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Pages From Damascus

From entering Syria to settling into daily life in the old city, my experience of Damascus carried equal parts anticipation and uncertainty.

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A day in the exclusion zone: Chernobyl and Pripyat

Chernobyl, a place I have wanted to visit since I was young and now finally made it there. I had high expectations of the place and indeed met my expectations and more.

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Photos from Malta

I headed to Malta for a long weekend to explore the island and tick off another European country. This is a collection of photos from the weekend.

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The Trans Siberian: A 7600km Journey from Beijing to Europe

I took the 7600km overland journey from Beijing through Mongolia all the way to Moscow. This is the recap of my journey.

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Christmas in Sri Lanka

My plan was to travel around Oman and the middle east over Christmas which didn't go as expected. I ended up changing my plans and heading to Sri Lanka for Christmas.

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North Korea day 4

Day 4 was the final day and just a travel day north back to China. A short recap on the trip.

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North Korea day 3

Day three we headed south to city of Kaesong, the DMZ and took a small tour around Pyongyang.

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North Korea day 2

Day two was the official start to the tour and at 6:30 we headed out to the International Friendship Exhibition which was 168km away from Pyongyang.

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North Korea day 1

Day one of the tour in North Korea started in Dandong then took me on an overland train ride to the capital city of North Korea: Pyongyang.

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Spring in Japan: Osaka, Kyoto, Nara

Visiting Osaka, Kyoto and Nara for the cherry blossom for my birthday. Sun, sakura and lots of food.

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Visiting a Tibetan Monastery

I have been staying in Xining, Qinghai which sits 2000m high on the Tibetan plateau. Qinghai has some Tibetan autonomous prefectures so we decided to head out into the mountains in search of a monastery. It turns out that it’s really easy.

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China’s Great Wall in the Desert and the Striped Mountains

Gansu province in western China has a lot of interesting places and two that I always wanted to see was the end of the wall in the far west and Zhangye Danxia Landform, also known as the striped mountains.

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Myanmar Street Photography

I recently spent a long weekend in Yangon. Myanmar is the last country I have visited in south east Asia and after visiting Yangon I now want to see more of the country. After getting a visa for about $20 in the Bangkok embassy I booked flights for 4 days in Yangon before heading to Taiwan.

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The Death Railway in Kanchanaburi, Thailand

A day trip from Bangkok along the death railway, stopping at; Nakhon Pathom, Rivew Kwai, Kanchanaburi and Nam Tok waterfall.

Photos from Vientiane, Laos

I've decided to start a new blog.... The Bloke Blog. My old Callum.cm blog expired and it was $120 a year to renew the domain name so I decided to leave it. This new blog is nothing fancy, I just wanted to try out building a website with ReactJS and this was the outcome.