Once again I have been on a crazy trip to India, which also means I have also done an epic train journey, this time the 12 hour beast from Siliguri to Kolkata. So, how do you take this journey, and how much does it cost? Why visit Siliguri? Let’s be honest. Siliguri is a bit…
OK, so this probably was gonna start out as a bad review, but in the end, despite how dirty it was, the Kings Crown Hotel won me over with its charm. After all this was an Indian hotel that cost $19 a night. You see everything is economies of scale. The Indian Hotel scene To…
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…
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…
India has been building airports and putting on flights galore in order to position itself as a major player in the airport hub sector. The problem though is that while everything looks shiny from the outside, there are far too many political, infrastructural, and operational problems to make it truly viable as a transit hub….
