The Little Yak 2015 Calendar
What? It’s only November and my 2015 calendars are almost ready??! Yes, gentle reader, in a rare instance of advance planning, I have managed to pick out twelve of my […]
What? It’s only November and my 2015 calendars are almost ready??! Yes, gentle reader, in a rare instance of advance planning, I have managed to pick out twelve of my […]
My camera and I travelled almost 30,000 kilometres (or 18,750 miles, but that doesn’t sound nearly as impressive) across China last year. We returned with over 10,000 photographs documenting all […]
Ordering Chinese food can be a nerve-wracking experience, particularly if you don’t speak or read Chinese. Get it wrong, and your fears of being served platefuls of unmentionable animal parts […]
Why do we travel? I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently. Perhaps – as the writer Bruce Chatwin believed – we’re all nomads at heart. Perhaps we secretly yearn […]
Earlier this summer I attempted to travel light on a six-week trip to Northwest China. On the day I left Hong Kong, my backpack weighed 9kg (20lb), and my camera […]
Studying Chinese requires that you make a few decisions upfront. Do you learn Mandarin or another dialect? Learn the characters or stick with pinyin? Traditional or simplified characters? Go to […]
Eurgh – packing lists. I generally shun them as indicative of control-freakery, but given that my own packing is reduced to putting everything in a big pile, adding some things […]
Luggage is a fact of life. Whether you’re going to a friend’s house for the weekend or on a six-month long expedition across the steppes of Central Asia, you’ll need […]
Travelling to Tibet is a dream for many people. The legend of a high-up, far-away and closed-off kingdom ruled by monks that developed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries […]
Those of you who follow the Byzantine rules and regulations that govern travel inside the Tibetan Autonomous Region will know that since May last year it has been more difficult […]