If you are looking for snow in Japan, but can’t be arsed to fly to Hokkaido then Yuzawa and Niigata are pretty much your options. Whether it is actually worth visiting Yuzawa though will depend greatly on your patience and if you mind sharing the town with hordes of Chinese tourists. What the Yuzawa? Yuzawa,…
Hot, dirty, and full of poverty and squalor, Siliguri offers a grimy contrast to its neighbours in Sikkim and Darjeeling, ironically two of the cleanest places in all of India. Quite the irony indeed, as Siliguri is quite literally one of the filthiest places in India, and easily the dirtiest in West Bengal. Aside from…
There’s a lot of things I am VERY nerdy about, chief among them obviously being Street Food, but one thing that comes pretty close are the Maunsel Forts from WW2 that litter the oceans of the UK. And it just so turns out that you can visit the Redsand Maunsel Fort from another obsession of…
During my first trip to Sikkim I had been largely unimpressed by the beer scene in Gangtik, until some local help got me to The Square Restaurant and Bar located on Mahatma Gandhi Marg (MG Marg). Not only did this deliver a well earned pint after a day at a dry wedding, but it also…
While I have long known that India likes spicy things, never did I expect that this would extend to ice-cream. At Buza Scoopa in Gangtok it not only exists, it is bloody good. If you prefer something a bit more vanilla, pun very much intended, then you will be pleased to know that Buza Scoopa…
While the majority of Bali is pretty much where Aussies come to get high or pick up hookers, or western women looking for an Eat, Pray, Love deliverance moment, there are some gems, which to an extent includes Uluwatu. This is because while it is for the most part very pretentiously Bali, it is less…
