The Travel Bug Goes Forth

About the Book

This is the fourth book in the 'Travel Bug' series, following the success of 'Catch the Travel Bug', 'No Cure for the Travel Bug', and 'The Travel Bug Goes Viral’. The world is changing so fast, and even the wildest places are relatively easy to reach. We continue to search for such places, but making due allowance for our ever-advancing years. Each chapter is self-contained and covers a different journey. It is not meant to be a guidebook. Just pick a section from the contents page that interests you, and let us transport you there. Included are trips to: the Indonesian islands of Bali, Ambon and Seram - a logging concession in Sarawak - the Karakoram Highway to Kashgar - Papua in Indonesia to attend a tribal festival with the penis sheathed tribesmen - Italy: Milan, Verona, Venice, Florence, Pisa, La Spezia and the Cinque Terre, Rome - Malaysia: Pangkor Island, Ulu Muda forest and archaeological dig - The Caucasus: including Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia and Turkey - a Holy Land tour - Kuching in Sarawak - Petra in Jordan - a drive around Sabah - take a Comino pilgrims way to Santiago de Compostela from Portugal into Spain - China, to visit the Dongchuan Red Fields, Lijiang, Shangri-La and a journey taking us to Litang and Kanding - get lost in the mangrove forest of Malaysia - Pontianak in Indonesian Borneo - Romania and Bulgaria to see the Painted Monasteries - the Kelabit highlands of Sarawak - to Nagaland and Assam in North-Eastern India - follow the Chinese border with Myanmar and meet the jade traders at Ruili, on to Luang Prabang in Laos - the abandoned deepest underground tin mines in Malaysia - By train and public transport around Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan for the walnut harvest. - Japan and the Kumano Kodo Shinto/Buddhist pilgrimage route in the Kii Peninsular.

About the Author

After retiring in 1999, the author continues to enjoy travelling the globe with Lian, his Malaysian wife.