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Moshi & Arusha: Tanzania’s Gateway Towns to Kilimanjaro And The Northern Safari Circuit
Previous Post: Planning A Visit To Tanzania To Climb Kilimanjaro If a safari or a climb of Kilimanjaro in northern Tanzania is in your plans, then you will be spending some time in Arusha and/or Moshi, the two gateway towns … Continue reading
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On Safari In Tanzania: A Morning In Ngorongoro Crater
Previous Post – An Afternoon In Tarangire National Park We left Tarangire National Park shortly after 4 p.m., amazed at the number of animals we had seen. As the map below shows, Tarangire is the southernmost of a sequence of … Continue reading
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On Safari In Tanzania: An Afternoon In Tarangire National Park
My volcano climbs of Meru and Kilimanjaro done, I had six days of empty space at the end of my Tanzania visit. Two of them I spent in Moshi and two in Arusha. The original plan had been to climb … Continue reading
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Pashupatinath: Shiva’s Kathmandu Valley Temple
Related Posts: The Kathmandu Valley And Its UNESCO Cultural Heritage Sites Temples & Street Shrines of Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley – “God Is Alive; Magic Is Afoot” From the tourist ghetto in the Thamel district, four of the Kathmandu Valley’s major UNESCO … Continue reading
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Yangon’s Shwedagon Pagoda At Night
Previous Post: Yangon’s Shwedagon Pagoda – The Golden Heart of Myanmar During my one week’s stay in Yangon, I visited the Shwedagon three times, once in the late morning and twice in the late afternoon. While there is no bad … Continue reading
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Bhaktapur Three years After The 2015 Quakes – Part 2: Taumadhi Sq., Potters’ Sq., and Tachapal
Previous Post: Bhaktapur Three years After The 2015 Quakes – Part 1: Durbar Square The return visit to Bhaktapur continues! While Durbar Square is undoubtedly the one site that all visitors will see, there is more! Just around the corner from … Continue reading
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Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley – The Temples of Lalitpur (Patan)
Related Post: The Kathmandu Valley and Its UNESCO World Heritage Sites Nepal’s Kathmandu valley does not lack for dazzling religious and royal palace architecture. The map below shows some of the seven sites that have made the UNESCO World Heritage … Continue reading
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Yangon’s Shwedagon Pagoda – The Golden Heart of Myanmar
Previous Post: Mingalaba From Myanmar – Land of the Golden Pagodas If you visit Myanmar (formerly called Burma), you will probably be starting off in its largest city, the business and cultural capital Yangon (Rangoon to the British). At the … Continue reading
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