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Backpackers' diaries

Regular series on the travels and adventures of our backpackers as they explore the globe
  • Simon on a houseboat on Dal Lake, Kashmir

    Backpackers' diaries: the ride towards Delhi and a cow-bike calamity

  • Theodora and Zac in St Mark's Square, Venice

    Backpackers' diaries: Venice … culture, carpaccio and cocktails

  • Simon's bike at Lungalacha pass

    Backpacker diaries: a pretty pass on the road to Leh, north India

    For Simon Gandolfi, crossing the world's second-highest pass, Tanglang La in north India, is an endurance test of dust, fumes and sleepless nights, with great views

  • Aerial View Of The Shard

    Backpackers' diaries: a home run

  • Tackling a 35-degree slope in Manali in a specially adapted Jeep

    Backpackers' diaries: a bit steep in Manali, India

  • Theodora Sutcliffe and Zac at the Hong Kong Science Museum

    Backpackers' diaries: Hong Kong views and hospital news

  • Simon Manali

    Backpackers' diaries: a ride over the roof of India

  • Simon Gandolfi in Manali, India

    Backpackers' diaries: watching India awake in Manali

  • Zac on helicopter to Ulan Bator

    Backpackers' diaries: in Mongolia, disaster strikes for Zac

  • Reindeer, Mongolia, Asia

    Backpackers' diaries: a nose for reindeer people in Mongolia

  • DHAMI HOUSE HOMESTAY, SHIMLA, INDIA

    Backpackers' diaries: on the Great Trunk Road to Shimla, India

  • Bejoy Issac (nicknamed Baloo) is the resident naturalist at Ken River Lodge in India's Panna nationa

    Backpackers' diaries: India's Panna national park

  • Horse grazing on grassy plains of Mongolia.

    Backpackers' diaries: horse riding in Mongolia

  • River Betwa, Orchha.

    Backpackers' diaries: riding into Madhya Pradesh, the heart of India

  • Children's Day Mongolia

    Backpackers' diaries: a spectacular journey in Mongolia

  • Gwalior fort in Madhya Pradesh

    Backpackers' diaries: from Delhi to Agra by bike – in 46C

    This week Simon Gandolfi, celebrating his 80th birthday with a solo motorbike journey through Asia and Europe, finally gets on his bike and starts to explore India

  • The dinosaur arch in Erenhot on the Chinese-Mogolian border.

    Backpackers diaries: Mongolia here we come!

    Theodora Sutcliffe and her 12-year-old son, Zac, finally leave China and cross into Mongolia. And if their experience at the border is anything to go by, it's going to be quite an adventure …

  • Xanadu, Inner Mongolia

    Backpackers' diaries: mother and son head to Shangdu (Xanadu), China

  • New bike and Simon Gandolfi's ready to leave Delhi

    Backpackers' diaries: the octogenarian biker gets revved up in Delhi

  • A street scene in Kolkata

    Backpacker diaries: Kolkata to see an old friend

    Simon Gandolfi is celebrating his 80th birthday by undertaking a solo motorbike adventure from India back to Europe. This week he takes a trip (by air) to Kolkata to visit an old friend before starting his long journey home

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