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An unexpected pleasure

Featuredby Joanna James 6 Comments

I haven’t travelled much this year. While in Bhutan, I discovered that Mr Yak and I were going to have a baby – exciting news for us, but it did […]

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Philosophy, Yakety Yak

Great Ways to Get Around Burma

Featuredby Joanna James 6 Comments

Stick your head out the open windows of the world’s bounciest trains and perfect the art of riding motorcycles side-saddle. Rumble down quiet country roads on ancient bullock carts and […]

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Burma

Gong xi baa cai!

February 18, 2015by Joanna James Leave a comment

In Chinese, the year that starts at midnight tonight the Year of the Yang (羊 yáng). Yang is an umbrella term that encompasses both goats and sheep – anything that […]

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Yakety Yak

Merry Christmas!

December 24, 2014by Joanna James 1 Comment

I made it to North Island! Apologies to have left you hanging after my first day on the Alps 2 Ocean, but I’ve had a terribly busy few weeks since […]

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Yakety Yak

Alps 2 Ocean Cycle Trail: Days 1-2

December 3, 2014by Joanna James 2 Comments

After my last post from Lake Tekapo, I bussed up to Mount Cook Village. Mount Cook herself remained coyly draped in cloud throughout that first day, despite the northwest wind’s […]

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New Zealand

The Little Yak 2015 Calendar

November 3, 2014by Joanna James 2 Comments

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 […]

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Practicalities

Hong Kong: Pictures of Protest

October 14, 2014by Joanna James Leave a comment

When I took these pictures I thought there was a good chance that they would be irrelevant by now. After a temporary news blackout while I took a tour through […]

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China

Not Quite Kailash

June 20, 2014by Joanna James 3 Comments

This month I had originally planned to visit Mount Kailash in western Tibet. One of my (surprisingly few) travel dreams is to see the spectacular Saga Dawa festival that takes […]

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China

Drums, Dragons & Beer: Dragon Boat Festival

June 2, 2014by Joanna James 2 Comments

Happy Dragon Boat Festival! A national holiday across China, Dragon Boat Festival (also known, somewhat unpronounceably, as ‘Tuen Ng Festival’ in Hong Kong) is a day devoted to racing boats, […]

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China
Buns, Cheung Chau

Nice Buns! Cheung Chau Bun Festival

May 8, 2014by Joanna James 2 Comments

I stand corrected. After four years living on Cheung Chau and almost four years of telling people that it was kind-of-lame and best avoided, I’ve finally done the Cheung Chau […]

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China
Fishing Village, Dawei

Looking back at Burma

April 27, 2014by Joanna James 3 Comments

Hello there! Remember me, the errant author of this blog? Lovely to see you again, after all this time… I returned to Hong Kong last week after 67 fascinating days […]

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Burma, People

Five things I’ve learned about travel photography

January 14, 2014by Joanna James 2 Comments

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 […]

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Practicalities

The Little Yak 2014 Calendar

December 15, 2013by Joanna James Leave a comment

A drumroll, please: Just in time for Christmas and the end of the year, the Little Yak elves (i.e. my lovely printers) are putting the finishing touches to our 2014 […]

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Yakety Yak

Leaving Lhasa

November 25, 2013by Joanna James 2 Comments

We made it! Despite the worryingly high chance of getting snowed in en route, we got all the way from Chengdu to Lhasa – 3,000 kilometres – with only two […]

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China, People
The Bund, 2001

5 Photos: From the Archives

October 31, 2013by Joanna James Leave a comment

Last week, as I sat in a hotel in Burgundy overlooking acres of vineyards and writing about the Karakoram Highway, I realised the strangeness of writing about China regardless of my […]

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China

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