by Stephanie Quan | Jul 7, 2011 | India, Summer 2011: From the Middle East to North Korea
The density. The smells. The oppressive sticky heat. I’m going to have to buy more lactase pills if people don’t stop offering me chai with milk. No cremation sightings yet, but its only 4pm....
by Stephanie Quan | Jul 5, 2011 | India, Introspection, Summer 2011: From the Middle East to North Korea
Leh is geographically 300 km northeast of Srinagar, but it feels like much farther in terms of its environment. As I sit in this cafe typing, we are behind the mountains. Away from the monsoon, the air has the arid, light, unforgiving smell of the high desert....
by Stephanie Quan | Jun 28, 2011 | Let me tell you a Story..., Nepal, Public Transportation, Summer 2011: From the Middle East to North Korea
The bus ride that no one but Calvin and I found hilarious, then not so hilarious In Nepal, the transportation is..well…not like Turkey’s. So to travel approximately 200 km, we alloted a day each way. The ride to Pokhara, was a little...
by Stephanie Quan | Jun 24, 2011 | Nepal, Summer 2011: From the Middle East to North Korea
In a shisha bar listening to a band cover Pink Floyd. It may be low tourist season, but I’m having a ball. Momos, monkey temples, monsoon rains…pictures to...
by Stephanie Quan | Jun 23, 2011 | Summer 2011: From the Middle East to North Korea, United Arab Emirates
“If there is one thing I want you take away from this trip”, Calvin’s friend Mona said leaning around the taxi passenger seat, “it is that there are beautiful soulful people here. People who want to create and do good.” Having spent the...
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