Solo in Southeast Asia

A solo mission backpacking though some of the most culturally envigerating environments in Asia. India, Cambodia, Burma, Thailand, Laos, and Malaysia, countries so closely tied, but yet so vastly different. A life changing experience that gave me a completly different perspective of what life is all about.

Camel Safari, Rajastan, India

Our four day trek on Camels across the desert for 4 days. 8 hours a day on camelback in temperatures up to 45 degrees makes you appreciate your airconditioned car, with leather seats, and a head rest back at home.
This is an experience that we should all have to endure once in our life to really put our life in perspective.

A trip that takes the gypsies 15 days on camel- cart takes 15 hours in a bus.

Indian Culture

Indian Women collecting firewood for their village in the desert of India Many of these women will walk 5-10 km to find wood, and they all carry it on there heads back to the village.

Traditional Clothing and Jewels

All Indian women wear beautiful long draping gowns and many jewels, and diamonds. Here are two young gypsy girls I spent a week with to learn about thier culture. These 18-20 year old girls travel around on a camel cart from village to village and make henna tattoo's by day and dance in local restaurants by night. They bring in the money for the entire group they travel with. The 4 gypsy girls, and 2 young males who play music, take care of the 5-6 children and the three elders.

In this culture the average life expetancy would be around 40 years old. They live out of the village, in the desert with no shelter except a three foot high grass made fence around an baren area of sand 10-15 ft. in diameter.

Udiapur, India

Udiapur, India is the place where the James Bond movie "Octupussy" was filmed. Here I stayed at a fancy expensive hotel overlooking the beautiful lake where the floating hotel is located. A very expensive hotel here was 1350 Rupies, approx. $50 Can. Dollars. 

Sunset in Johdpur, India

Amazing sunset's throughout India provide you images that are unforgettable.

Ganges River, Varanaci, India

This place was the most spriritual place I have ever encoutered. I found myself crying a few times because of the culture shock.

This is the Ganges river. Here people come from all over the country to bath in this holy water. Beleive me it doesn't smell or look that holy. On the riverside there are 4-5 Ghats, where families burn bodies of their decessed, and then throw the pelvis of the female and the ribs of the male back into the river. Their belief here is in reincarnation, and this is the sacrafice.

Anchor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Anchor Wat are the riuns which date back to 800 AD, a series of sandstone rock temples with a mass larger than the great pyramids.

Cambodia has a such an amazingly intersting history. One movie which gives you some insight on the recent past and involves the Khmer Rouge killing millions is the "The Killing Fields"