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Travelogue
A travelogue is a written record of a journey. Travelogues have a long history, from Pausanias' account of 2nd-century Greece, to Marco Polo's travels in 13th-century Asia, to the 19th-century ramblings of Mark Twain, through to modern travel literature.
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The ride back to Kathmandu was comfortable and relaxing. There were more overturned trucks (the gas-powered ones seem to tip the most often, I’m surprised there weren’t more explosions), goats being herded across the highway by ancient women, children playing games in traffic, private cars and buses alike pulling over in the most inconvenient places for a picnic or public bath, and best of all the suicidal overtaking maneuvers (or what we would call ‘passing’) by our bus and others while going d
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― Notes of a Naive Traveler: Nepal and Thailand
― Notes of a Naive Traveler: Nepal and Thailand
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All our ancestors were murdered, murderers, complicit to murder, or combating murder.
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― An Age of License: A Travelogue
― An Age of License: A Travelogue
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