Screen name: 
Age: 
29
Gender: 
Male
Travel status: 
Traveling soon
Hometown: 
Calgary, Alberta
Currently in: 
Dhaka, Bangladesh
 
Traveling Next: 
Somewhere in Bangladesh
Favorite places I've been: 
Chittagong Hill Tracts Bangladesh; Sikkim India; Xinjiang China; Karakarom Highway Pakistan; Yunnan China; Bilgola Australia

Places I want to go to: 
Tibet via Yunnan, Pakistan again, Nepal, anywhere in Africa

 
About me: 
I'm an Asia-based freelance journalist, specializing in feature photography, travel writing and print and web design. I am also busy authoring a new travel guidebook to Bangladesh with Bradt Travel Guides.

 
 
 
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by Grass Routes | 2008/05/05

Great writing!
Absolutely heart felt.
Can relate to your decision.
I'm in Orissa pursuing a similar path ...
Check out: http://www.grassroutesjourneys.com

By MikeyLeung.ca  |  Location: Bangladesh  |  09/05/07  |  Pics: 1

To travel is to expose oneself to the great adventure of the open
road—sometimes literally. In Dhaka, the chaos capital of not just
Bangladesh, but perhaps the entire Indian subcontinent, it is the open
sewers that pose a unique hazard to unaware visitors. And I’m sorry to
say that I’ve...

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By MikeyLeung.ca  |  Location: Bangladesh  |  08/28/07  |  Pics: 2

It is with pleasure and pride that I am finally wrapping up my time as a VSO volunteer in one of VSO's most difficult countries. What do I have to say?

Thank Allah it's over.

While it is true I do say that with a sense of great relief, I also say it without an ounce of regret. As a volunteer, I have truly...

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