Anything can happen. Rob wrote an article earlier about getting good medical advice before a trip. Adding to that topic, what happens when something more than a case of the trots comes up? I think it is wise to prepare for as many contingencies as possible, considering of course, the practicality of carrying the stuff [...]

Deadly diseases that are making the news.
1)Up to 70% of waterfowl in Vietnam’s southern Mekong delta have tested positive to the bird flu virus strain H5N1. Local veterinary agencies culled 4,620 birds, mainly ducks and chickens, after they detected small outbreaks of bird flu in Hanoi and the three southern localities of Can Tho, Ben [...]

The Good
Shaka Sola, a shot putter from Samoa, misses his flight to the world athletics championships and has to compete in the javelin, coming last. A crowd favourite. The next Eddie the Eagle? Sola Power?
The Bad
Kim Jong-il gets 11 holes-in-one on his first attempt at golf. Here are the odds, [...]

The group now split for the day. Kevin plus six volunteers headed off to clear a trail into the jungle. A campsite had been recced previously but the jungle grows back quicker than an old man’s ear hair, so it needed cutting back to get our provisions in.

This is really just Pakistan business stuff, but it might make life easier for those who are travelling in the area. I don’t have a full list of the sites yet, but when I do I’ll pass it on.
National Logistic Cell (NLC) has started work on a US$2000 million project to construction modern border terminals [...]

For the first six months that my wife and I lived in Honduras, we had no vehicle and no form of communication

One of the worst things about traveling to poor countries for extended periods has to be the issue of health.