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February 12th, 2011 | Asia

A Day In Jaipur…

My guide and driver, Mahraj… Nerves of steel and a mine of information on Jaipur…

Entrance to the temple in the Monkey Palace…

In the Monkey Palace…having got my bulls-eye…!!

Eeny, meeny, miney, mo… This chap hoarded all the nuts and wouldn't let the others near him…!!

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February 12th, 2011 | Asia

Ride to Jaipur…

It's 6.00am, and we are loaded and ready to roll…!!

A misty morning on the outskirts of Delhi… And all sorts are out on the road…!!

Camel train on the National Highway…!! Can you imagine this in a 1st world country…!!

Wherever we stopped, the Big Fella […]

February 11th, 2011 | Asia

Enter: The Dark Destroyer…!!

In order to get things to move along, I put away my free-wheeling Gypsy Biker persona, and called on my flip side for assistance….

Enter: The Dark Destroyer…. (Straight down the centre aisle…!! He doesn’t do stage left….or right for that matter….!!)

The Dark Destroyer, seen here in his younger and more vulnerable […]

February 9th, 2011 | Asia

Bribe or Bangkok…??

It would seem that in order to get my bike out of Customs, I have to lay some money on, or should I say, “under”, the table…

Well…. I’m not prepared to do that…!! I have already spent over $3 000.00 up to this point and I now have to play the “Enough is Enough” […]

February 9th, 2011 | Asia

“Incredible Delays”, more like it…!!

Day three of my wait to get the bike cleared, and still no concrete info on when that might happen…!!

My new International Drivers Licence apparently passed the scrutiny of the Customs officer late yesterday afternoon… This is the very first country in which I have been asked to produce this licence, and told that […]

February 8th, 2011 | Asia

“Incredible India”…??

Crossing Dubai Creek on a water taxi…

Flotillas of these taxis ply their trade across this busy waterway…

With only a backpack to worry about, and more than eight hours to kill before my flight to Delhi, I wandered along the streets of Dubai, and eventually found myself on the banks […]