Tag: Travel Blog
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LAHORE – PAKISTAN
25/3/24 – 28/3/24 Crossing the Wagah Border was certainly a bucket list item for me – and once I had stepped across the boundary line and through the gates, I was officially in Pakistan, and quickly en-route to the country’s cultural capital, Lahore. Lahore is a city of 13 million, and is sprawling. Thankfully, rickshaw…
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WAGAH BORDER – INDIA/PAKISTAN
25/3/24 One of my ‘bucket list’ items has always been to cross the Wagah Border, the only crossing between India and Pakistan that is open to third-country nationals. This is the site of the famous border parades, in which each evening, Indian and Pakistani soldiers face off against each other in a choreographed routine, surrounded…
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AMRITSAR – INDIA
24/3/24 – 25/4/24 The Shatabdi Express I had stepped on in New Delhi trundled into Amritsar Junction, a sign proudly welcoming passengers to the Punjab capital. Instantly, you realise that this is a very different place to Delhi – it is cleaner and less chaotic – and the rickshaw drivers outside the train station were…
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AGRA – INDIA
21/3/24 After realising that the Taj Mahal shuts its doors every Friday to allow for Muslim prayers, I was left with little choice but to travel to Agra a mere 7 hours after arriving in Delhi. Departing from Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin station, the Gatimaan Express pulled away at 8:10, and arrived in Agra at 9:40…
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NEW DELHI – INDIA
20/3/24 – 24/3/24 After a very enjoyable overnight stop in KL, I was off to the airport again – this time for my flight up to New Delhi. I’d been warned beforehand about the chaos of Delhi, but even that left me unprepared as I headed out of the Arrivals hall at Indira Gandhi airport…
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SEOUL – SOUTH KOREA (#2)
3/12/23 – 5/12/23 I’d been completely unable to contact UBus in order to schedule a shuttle bus to pick me up to take me back to the airport, and so I settled on taking a taxi. That, however, required me to find an ATM so that I could get more cash out. Unfortunately, I’d packed…
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ULAANBAATAR – MONGOLIA
30/11/23 – 3/12/23 After polishing off the food I had left in the apartment, I packed up and ordered a Yandex to the airport. I was going to be a bit early, but I wasn’t hugely fussed, as I knew I could just sit somewhere quiet, read my book, and wait! Almaty Airport, unlike Tashkent,…
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