Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart.
Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives. - Tahir Shah
Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.
- Tahir Shah
If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure. - Tahir Shah
If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.
Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat. - Tahir Shah
Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.
I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas. - Tahir Shah
I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.
Believe, and what was impossible becomes possible what at first was hidden becomes visible. - Tahir Shah
Believe, and what was impossible becomes possible what at first was hidden becomes visible.
The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation. - Tahir Shah
The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.
Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order. - Tahir Shah
Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.
Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings sp… - Tahir Shah
Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings sp…
There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage. - Tahir Shah
There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.
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