Seven Suns

... bee-lined for the nail joint where a pedicure served my weary feet well.  I then met the crew back at our guesthouse, the Seven Suns, and we started things off with one of the best meals I had had yet in Thailand at the Huey Phen Restaurant. ...

... the wind change, because as like last night, there is no wind.  This makes it feel very hot and on the Equator, the suns rays are also much more intense. We cruised out to Cerf Island and then transfer to a semi-submerged vehicle that allows us to ...

... around the edges but not over the center of the cove because cool stuff generally hangs out over the rocks.  There were seven turtles when I got there, including what my marine biologist friend tells me was a hawks bill, a very endangered sea ...

... in one word that would be it. Petra would be one of the best places I have visited in the world. We were there for seven and a half hours and it flew. We walked almost the whole time. We climbed three different mountains. We got covered in the red dust ...

... map and how close it was to Zhaoxing many still decided to wait for the 'correct’ bus. I spent the next nearing seven hours watching the stunning scenery pass by. The road between Congjiang and Luoxiang is pretty bloody terrible, not the worst road ...

... "Here rickshaw." "OK., OK., Hotel Vivek, Pahar Ganj." I responded if only to avoid looking insanely dumb. Of the six or seven hotels I'd committed to memory only this one would rematerialise. I knew that the Vivek had been fifth or sixth on my list but ...

... frightening beasts. Nuwa then chopped off the legs of a giant tortoise, which she used to replace the pillar, and gathered stones of seven colors to seal and heal the sky. But she could not move the sky to its original position, which explains why the ...

... stars. In the height of its glory, around 900 AD, Toniná's pyramidal structure was composed of seven platforms and was crowned by thirteen temples; a central stairway, leading to the Temple of Smoking ...

... full day in Cambodia was set to be a big one, with an early morning bus ride to Sisophon followed by some six or seven hours tomb-raidering in the temples about 55km further north. The day started well enough, with a coffee and some breakfast into me ...

... ;dried cracked lips only a harsh mountainous environment can provide and good conversation, our moral was pretty high. We were hiking seven days through the Cordillera Blanca on a trek called Alpaymayo, named after an alluring mountain in the area. ...

... John, got a new motor? We went back to Jardels for more Skol and met his family; his disapproving wife Kaia and sweet seven year old daughter Kavra.  Jardels dad and brothers were building their house for them so I mucked in sweeping up leaves and ...

... Argentina?" How long does it take to drive from France to Argentina? They didn't have much to give, but still they gave. Seven of them in a small room, sharing the same bed and leaving us their other room...... I sat there peacefully, thinking in perfect ...

... missed a bit of it because people in the crowd were all singing their own songs. The most popular choice was The White Stripes Seven Nation Army. The Dane’s sung this song all the time, it was either their national anthem or Roskilde Anthem, a very ...

... but after a few hours, the brain learns not to sit up with a fright everytime one passes and you tune them out. At half seven, in pitch black darkness, we reach Panjim. There on the platform is James, a British film student who was on our train, and ...

... to the Fortress that i will remember the most. As i was heading down Kongens gate i could see in the distance a line of about seven quite good looking women all dolled up to the nines in short miniskirts and knee high boots. When i drew closer i was ...

... , the Spanish never found this great city and it lay in waiting until it was discovered in 1911, and then labeled as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in 2007. So if Machu Picchu was not the last Inca Stronghold, then what was it.  It is ...

... the way of life here. The Celtic Tiger has roared in, true, and the shape of Ireland has changed drastically since I was here seven years ago, but there is this understanding of how day to day life is seriously affected by the whim and shifts of nature, ...

... punta music, and i mean really dancing, dancing like i'll never be able to dance. i loved the youngest ones, the six and seven year olds, shaking their booties like no other with rhythm that i am convinced is genetic. how else could they all move that ...

... sitting alongside ancient cathedrals. So they break down a little more often than you would expect in Switzerland, but they go every seven minutes. But the big question your all asking is what the hell is Rahn doing so far from home in this strange ...