Contents
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 TRAVEL TALES
About the Author

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapters

New Zealand                                         
1.  Bungee Baptism                                
2.  Nose to Nose with the Maori           
3.  Driving on the “Wrong” Side            
4.  The Southern Alps        

Southeast Asia       
Indonesia        
5.  Hazards on Wheels        
6.  Tourist Trap from Hell        

Thailand
7.  You Are Not Alone       

Laos
8.  Cyber Monks        
9.  The Butterfly Effect        
10. Vang Vieng Bus Ride

Vietnam
11. Green Hat Boat Trip       
12. Shelter from the Swarm     
13. Taken for a Ride     

Myanmar (Burma)        
14. Shwedagon Surprise
15. Escorted by the Secret Police     
16. Mandalay Monks  
17. Boat Ride Down the Irrawaddy
18. Burmese Puppet Master  
19. Where Villages Move and Stones Fly
20. Jumping Cats and Other Inle Lake Tales

China and Tibet
21. Know Where Your Water Comes From
22. The Dragon and the Snow Lion

South Asia  
Nepal
23. Full Circle     
24. Zoom Zoom and Other Trekking Tales
25. Servant Culture  
26. Bhaktapur Bargain
27. In Search of Everest  

India            
28. Golden Temple
29. Temple Erotica   
30. Holy Cow!
31. Fists of Anger     
32. Desert Safari      
33. Life and Death on the Ganges
34. Midnight Raiders     
35. Temple Scam  
36. Foot Soldier of Demography     
37. The Bollywood Star and the Philanthropist   
38. Club Meditation—The Last Resort  
39. Animal Attacks
40. For Shame
41. Via Indrail     
42. The Tourist Caste and My Shadow
43. Auto-Rickshaw Wallahs
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Sri Lanka                
44. Tea Taster’s Paradise     
45. Danse Macabre

Africa and the Middle East                
Ethiopia         
46. Bus Robbery        
47. Self-Appointed Guides       
48. Coffee Ceremony       
49. Donkey Pilgrimage      

Jordan       
50. America Taxi        
51. Red Sea Rug Burn        

Egypt      
52. Mount Sinai and the Burning Bush
53. Mister Sunshine    
54. Captain Jamaica
55. Tourism and Antiquities Police     
56. Baksheesh Babas    
57. Caravanserai in Old Cairo
58. Papyrus Bureaucracy

Tunisia    
59. Rug Merchants      
60. Pit-Houses and Palmeraie       
61. Big Heads and 7/11      

Observations from the Road
62. Beggars and the Faranji Flip       
63. Funny Money      
64. I’m a Tourist, Fleece Me!      
65. Lost in Translation   
66. Miffed About Prescription Prices     
67. Santa Claus Syndrome     
68. Time Traveler       
69. Watch Out for Pickpockets      
70. World Wide Web      

Europe    
71. It’s All Greek to Me! (Greece)      
72. Cutting Corners (Greece)     
73. Beer Fests—Then and Now (Germany)
74. Crossing the Czech Border     
75. E'x'otic Massage (Poland)     
76. In the Shadow of the Gulag (Baltic Republics)     
77. Service Soviet-Style (Latvia)
78. 9/11 (Switzerland)      
79. Reindeer Balls (Iceland)       

The Return
80. Lost Horizons?    

Permissions Acknowledgements

Glossary

Index
336 pages
39 color photographs
Maps and diagrams
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