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There is an entire economy in a traffic jam: water, snacks, phone chargers, umbrellas. We bought lunch through a car window without stopping.
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Jakarta, Indonesia · Asia
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The guide switched off the engine and we drifted. The forest was louder than the boat had been. Something large moved in the water and nobody asked what it was.
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Kinabatangan, Malaysia · Asia
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A packet of tissues on a table means the table is taken. This is not a rule anyone writes down, and breaking it once is enough to learn it.
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Singapore · Asia
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It rained at four in the afternoon for five days in a row, for exactly twenty-five minutes each time. By day three we planned our coffee around it.
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Singapore · Asia
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Routes are painted on the side and fares are passed forward hand to hand from the back. Nobody loses a coin. Nobody keeps the change.
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Manila, Philippines · Asia
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The boat stopped at a beach with a hut and a barrel of diesel. The refuelling took twenty minutes and the swimming took the rest of the afternoon.
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Palawan, Philippines · Asia
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The ferries stopped for four days. We ended up in a fishing village with four other stranded travellers, learned to play a local card game badly, and were sad to leave.
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Philippines · Asia
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There are two thousand temples and no rule about which one to climb. We picked one at random, sat on warm brick, and watched the light change for an hour.
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Bagan, Myanmar · Asia
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Every teahouse on the trek kept a paper ledger, and the prices went up predictably with altitude because everything had been carried on someone's back.
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Kathmandu, Nepal · Asia
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The mountain is not the hard part. The hard part is the fourteenth consecutive dinner of dal bhat and the discovery that you would happily eat a fifteenth.
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Everest region, Nepal · Asia
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He carried thirty-two kilos with a strap across his forehead and overtook us on every climb. At lunch he asked, politely, whether our bags were really that heavy.
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Annapurna, Nepal · Asia
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The idea is that the wind carries the prayer, so a faded flag has done more work than a bright one. Nobody takes the old ones down.
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Ladakh, India · Asia
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They installed one once and took it out because people preferred the policeman. He directs traffic like a conductor and clearly enjoys it.
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Thimphu, Bhutan · Asia
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We crossed at 4,655 metres in a shared jeep with a cracked windscreen. The driver stopped at the top, got out, tied a ribbon to a pole and got back in without explanation.
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Pamir Highway, Tajikistan · Asia
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The tiles are a blue that photographs badly and looks unreal in person. An old man selling bread at the gate told us to come back at six, and he was right.
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Samarkand, Uzbekistan · Asia
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Non is never placed upside down and never cut with a knife. Our host corrected all three of us in the first ten minutes and then fed us for two days.
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Uzbekistan · Asia
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We arrived to find the family moving camp for summer pasture. They fed us anyway, from a stove already half packed, and then rode away.
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Kyrgyzstan · Asia
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Kumis is offered with both hands and refusing is rude. It tastes like sour yoghurt that has had opinions. I drank two cups and got better at hiding my face.
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Kyrgyzstan · Asia
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We stood under a badgir on a 42-degree day and felt actual cold air coming down. It was built in the fifteenth century and has never needed electricity.
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Yazd, Iran · Asia
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We were invited home for dinner by strangers three separate times in one week. Refusing politely is a whole art form and we never learned it.
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Iran · Asia
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There is the main path and there is the back trail with eight hundred steps. Take the steps at seven in the morning and the Monastery is empty when you arrive.
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Petra, Jordan · Asia
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You cannot swim, only float, and you must not get it in your eyes. I got it in my eyes within ninety seconds. A stranger walked me to the shower.
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Dead Sea, Jordan · Asia
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After the generator went off there was no sound at all. Not wind, not insects, nothing. Six people sat in the dark for an hour and nobody spoke.
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Wadi Rum, Jordan · Asia
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We crossed between quarters six times in an afternoon and the smell, the language and the music changed each time inside two hundred metres.
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Jerusalem · Asia
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The missed ferry. The stranger who handed over a key. The meal that ran until midnight. If something happened to you on the road and you still think about it, send it - a few sentences is plenty, and we do the tidying up.
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