India Wisdom Part 1 – Let It Go
I’ve got so many friends who love india. They have been urging me for years; ‘go to India. you’ll love India. India is so amazing. India is so beautiful. It’s paradise. Hemp growing wild on the roadside…’
Wat a Day – Chiang Mai, Thailand
The original Wat Chedi Luang was built six centuries ago, so it looks a bit battered and falling down. It has big elephants on it. It’s like a giant birthday cake after the kids grabbed fistfuls of it…
Cardboard Technology – Chiang Mai, Thailand
It’s full of bacteria” he spat. “Look, there’s rats shitting on the floor, and flies landing on the rat poop, and then the flies are landing on the meat!” He looked outraged. “You take two mouthfuls of that curry, and you’ll be shitting through a straw for a week…
Hobo Haven – Ayr, Australia
One of the crazy cool things about being a nomad in Australia is all the beautiful, hidden away camp sites I find everywhere I go. This one is just off the Bruce Highway, on the banks of Barratta Creek, about 10 km NW of Ayr. It’s free, unofficial, wilderness camping, accessible in a car or…
Plastic Monks – Ayuthaya, Thailand
Facing each other across the Chao Phraya River, in Ayuthaya, Thailand, two temples present a stark historical contrast. Wat Tha Ka Rong is a bustling modern complex, something between a strip mall and a church. A stone’s throw away is Wat Chaiwattanarm, a crumbling ruin dating from the early 17th century. (Top photo: what…
Saddle Sore – Angkor Wat, Cambodia
…There is a vertiginous weight about the structures. Passing through the gates into the temple enclosure, struggling up the endless steep stairways, I am acutely aware of the intention of Angkor’s architects: impress the bollocks off people – make them feel very small… Me and J-man get on the slow train out of Bangkok. Actually,…
Fruit & Voodoo – Moulamein, Australia
…’Madaram sudaram, madaram sudaram, mumbo jumbo, blaggedy bla!’ The bastard’s putting a curse on me! I give the guy his ticket, and say, ‘have a happy Confest’, and as he drives away he’s like: ‘hope you sleep well tonight mate! Sweet dreams buddy!’… Confest 2014. Thursday morning. I’m selling tickets on the front gate. Bloke…
About Monkey Traps – Uluru, Australia
…There was a woman on my mind. Of course there was. She’d given me an ultimatum; give me what I want, or leave me alone. I loved her. I wanted to make her love me too, but I seemed to be unable to reach her. I sat on the muddy ground under the lush forest…
What the… SNAP! – Broken Hill, Australia
A bunch of photos from the dusty 6000 km I have just hitchhiked across southern Australia. Damn, that was fun. Think I`ll go again. ;) (Top: the proprietor of this roadhouse, west of Broken Hill, has a really Aussie sense of humour. (High speed encounters with Aussie wildlife can be hazardous to your health.) …
Where’s Wallaby? – Gawler Ranges, Australia
…As we climbed higher, the way got narrower and narrower, and the walls steeper and rockier. In the narrow passes there was moisture in the soil, and plenty of grass. It was a perfect wallaby habitat. As we came around a rocky outcrop, into the head of the canyon, we stopped dead in our tracks. …
Sand in the Lens – Merzouga, Morocco
Hitchhiking the road from Merzouga, Morocco, through the Atlas Mountains is enough to make your eyeballs bleed. Serious eye candy. (Above: Merzouga, Morocco.) (Merzouga.) (The Atlas Mountains.) (Todra Gorge.) (The Ziz Valley.) >> More photos of Morocco. >> Like Raw Safari on FaceBook. View Larger Map
WTF of the Day
evidently the Spanish like burgers…