Tag: travel
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![Kolkata moments [14/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-20150320_143652.jpg)
Kolkata moments [14/50]
Kolkata in West Bengal, India, is possible one of the most exciting and challenging cities that I have ever visited; nothing quite prepares you for it. I remember when I first came here in the mid-1990s how I felt a combination of fear, excitement, and horror, all at the same time, each emotion competing for
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![Annapurna Circuit Nepal [11/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-20150227_132953.jpg)
Annapurna Circuit Nepal [11/50]
At the moment, I’m a place called Manang on the Annapurna Circuit in the Nepalese Himalayas. I hiked for six days to get here; it takes about 15-20 days to do the complete Circuit which involves hiking over the Thorung La Pass which at 5400 metres, it perhaps the world’s highest. It has snowed pretty
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![Rishikesh pancake therapy…[10/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-20150214_114822.jpg)
Rishikesh pancake therapy…[10/50]
I have spent the past week in Rishikesh in the state of Uttrakhand in Northern India. It is relaxed and chilled here, a backpacker backwater of the 1960s hippy trail. The town is surrounded by mountains on either side with the clear and fast-running Ganges slithering between it connected by two wobbly suspension bridges. The
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![Nothing quite prepares you for India…[7/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-20150201_061741-1.jpg)
Nothing quite prepares you for India…[7/50]
Travels in Varanasi India
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![4 good reasons to take a sabbatical year…[4/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//Annapurna_Massif_Panorama.jpg)
4 good reasons to take a sabbatical year…[4/50]
There are (hopefully) number of good reasons to take an extended sabbatical or ‘gap year’, perhaps not just once, but during key junctures in your life. Gap years are usually about the process of coming of age, of getting out there and experiencing the world before starting University or a career. They help individuals develop
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![The death of a travel diary…[3/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//2014-12-07-20.56.47.jpg)
The death of a travel diary…[3/50]
An everyday discipline that I have had for the past 27 years (ouch) is keeping a daily ”travel diary”. I started this arduous task way-back in 1988 during Australias bi-centenary year. This first diary was a Christmas gift from my sister, embellished with pictures of koalas, kangaroos, gum-nuts, and celebratory bi-centenary images of Governor Phillip