Mombasa-bound

After picking up our tickets we killed time waiting for the train the station bar. Power in the station went out after about 15 minutes but candles were promptly brought out to light up the station. This was the first in a string of power outages that seemed to follow us from town to town, around the country!
(Photo by Thushan Amarasiriwardena, caption by Michael D. Kurtz / LongJaunt.com)

Sarajevo to Serbia

05.06.2008 | Belgrade, Serbia
After just a tease of Sarajevo, we took off on a night train to Belgrade, the capital of the former Yugoslavia and the now independent ...

The streets of Mombasa

03.30.2008 | Mombasa, Kenya
Situated along Kenya's Indian Ocean seaboard, Mombasa's prime location and calm waters made this island a much coveted city.

Crossroads of the world

05.11.2008 | Istanbul, Turkey
Arriving on a beautiful Sunday morning in Istanbul, we ignored our sleep deprivation from another night of train travel and followed th...
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