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Category Archives: travel
Some Tips on Indian Visas
in the Singapore/Malaysia/United Arab Emirates context (i.e. the places where I’ve applied for an Indian visa) Never forget: almost everybody needs a visa to India. The default “tourist” visa you get (I say this as a Singapore citizen) is a 6-month multiple entry visa. It costs S$50 in Singapore. Don’t go to the High Commissions [...]
iPhone App Review: Angkor in Your Pocket
In 2005, a 20 year old newbie backpacker trudged through the Cambodian border at Aranyaprathet on foot and her first instinct was to reach for a stack of paper in her 65L backpack. Just to locate the section, “At the Poi Pet border… expect to pay extra for a Cambodian visa”, and additional instructions on [...]
Also posted in tech Tagged app, apple, asia, backpacking, cambodia, flashpack, iphone, tech, travel, travel guides 8 Comments
Portraits of Yemen
Yemen is all over the news these days for all the wrong reasons. Those of you interested in that sort of thing would do well to read Waq al-Waq as a necessary companion blog to Western reporting on Yemen, which does tend to come across as uninformed and inaccurate most of the time. I still [...]
Also posted in dispatch, gallery Tagged middle east, photography, photos, portraits, yemen 3 Comments
This Little Thing Called Globalization