ASIA
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MALAYSIA’S CAPITAL CITY
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I fist stepped foot in Malaysia in 2014 on my way to Australia and didn’t necessarily enjoy the trip. I ran into a couple of problems with my Couchsurfing host at the time and it was anything but enjoyable!During that 2014 trip, I spent some time in Little India, visited the Patronas Twin Towers and…
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FIRST FEW HOURS IN CHINA
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February 2014 A TV with no English channels, a quick Wifi service with strict internet censorship, restricting me from logging onto Facebook or YouTube, along with others, a Google search spitting out limited links, and a plug sockets that resembles that of the U.S. unit, many differences that I have come to accept in my…
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ONE OF ASIA’S SMALLEST COUNTRIES
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I had never even heard of Brunei when I began planning my first mega world trip in 2017. I wouldn’t even have been able to tell you what continent it was located in. I had no idea where it was on the map, the currency they use, religion, capital city, or what the people would…
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THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE IN THE WORLD
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Before I set out on my world trip in 2017, I began wondering where the nicest place in the world was located. I had already found a few decent spots prior to 2017, for example, Times Square in New York, Maya Bay in Thailand, Erlian in Inner Mongolia, China, though there was something special about…
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THE OTHER WAY TO NORTH KOREA
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There are two ways of getting to North Korea: the cheap way and the expensive way. Read about the expensive way here— a tour that I had done in November 2016- aroundtheentireworld.com/an-irishman-in-north-korea/ There is however a cheap way of stepping foot in the country and it involves flying to Seoul in South Korea and taking…
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RANDOMLY MEETING JOHNNY WARD IN TURKMENISTAN
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For those that are familiar with my trips, I tried and failed horribly to get to Turkmenistan in 2017, really long and complicated story,link here- https://aroundtheentireworld.com/the-long-way-to-uzbekistan/ so it was time to start again, 2023, and I started the planning, knowing this time I’d have to spend about $2,000, there was and still is no easier…
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INSANE EYE-OPENING TRIP TO INDIA
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So the time had finally come!It was destination, New Delhi, as I boarded an Air India flight bound for the capital. After a lengthy spell, the pilot welcomed us to Indira Ghandi airport, and I had never been as excited in my entire life to step foot on foreign soil. My childhood dream had been…
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A TRIP TO AFGHANISTAN
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Kabul was cool and a place that I had wanted to visited for years and years! I was really worried for a while about going to Afghanistan and rightly so. Kabul has always been one of the most dangerous cities in the world. It was the most worried I had ever been pre-departure for any…
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A FEW DAYS IN THE PHILIPPINES
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It was destination Manila, the second biggest city in the Philippines, on a warm September evening as we took off on a Cebu Pacific flight across the South China Sea. Our flight was on time, leaving us in Ninoy Aquino Airport at half past 11. We jumped in a taxi, and he so kindly took…
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VISITING OSAMA BIN LADEN’S COMPOUND IN PAKISTAN
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June 2022 I always wanted to see the Bin Laden compound site, so when I began planning my trip to Pakistan in summer 2022, I knew that Karachi and Lahore were too far away from Abbottabad, the city where he spent his remaining couple of years after he moved away from Pashawar.Islamabad, on the other…