Month: April 2012
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Colorful Holi
We had heard about Holi well before leaving Africa for the South Asian Subcontinent. “It’s that crazy holiday in India where everyone throws colored powder and water at each other and people just go nuts”, fellow travelers told us. So we immediately looked it up and started doing our research on where to be for…
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Yum: Cookie Walla
A small sign in the bustling and over-saturated backpacker area of Thamel, Kathmandu, Nepal calls to us. It’s small, shares no details, and is overpowered by the other bright signs around it, food carts, hotel- and trek touts, and live music coming from all directions, but it proclaims simply, “Cookie Walla”. We must go. We…
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Weekly Twitter Updates
Very excited to be here for the elections tmrw. Got our Aung San Suu Kyi tshirt & we're ready to celebrate w the ppl of #MYANMAR # #Bagan #Myanmar is stunning- temples as far as the eye can see, and not even that many tourists considering it's the #1 sight in Myanmar. # #Myanmar in…