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Almost Got the Bhut-an!

Almost Got the Bhut-an!

by Calvin Sun | Sep 23, 2024 | Bhutan, Fail, Getting that VISA, How Did You Do That?, How's the weather?, September 2024: Bhutan, Serendipitous!

  Upon an invitation by Letti’s friends after our West Africa trip together, I happily accepted and asked for permission if I could also invite a few monsooners if they’d be interested. As I learned about the process, it came at no surprise that the...
Sending By Port Moresby Code

Sending By Port Moresby Code

by Calvin Sun | Aug 26, 2024 | August 2024: The South Pacific Island Hopper, Blitzkrieg!!!, Getting that VISA, Papua New Guinea, Way Way Off the Beaten Path

Time provides a lens, and seemingly random incidents focus them. I had a surgery 2 months ago to remove an undiagnosed (and now beaten) cancer that originally was offered to be this week. At the time I was faced at the moment to choose whether to have the surgery...
The Tourist Visa & E-Visa For Libya for USA Passports

The Tourist Visa & E-Visa For Libya for USA Passports

by Calvin Sun | Apr 1, 2024 | Getting that VISA

 One month we’re going somewhere straightforward, the other…emerging tourism in more off-the-beaten-path destinations like Libya. So what does it take to be one of the first Westerners to be issued visas as visitors and tourists?We first submitted...
Libreville Me From Another Coup, So Gabon With It!

Libreville Me From Another Coup, So Gabon With It!

by Calvin Sun | Jan 10, 2024 | Gabon, Getting that VISA, How Did You Do That?, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, Winter 2023: The Gulf of Guinea

  We were worried whether the bloodless peaceful (if there is ever such a thing) coup d’état that took place here in Gabon less than only 4 months ago would affect our chances getting here. The coup had been the conclusion to a 56-year-long rule of the...
The Nigerian Tourist Visa for Americans/USA Passports

The Nigerian Tourist Visa for Americans/USA Passports

by Calvin Sun | Oct 18, 2023 | Fail, Getting that VISA, How Did You Do That?

 It has never been a secret that a visa to visit Nigeria as a tourist has been one of the most difficult if not impossible to obtain: Traditionally travel companies would instead exploit a loophole and issue a business visas on arrival for exorbitant...
Damascus Anything About Syria!

Damascus Anything About Syria!

by Calvin Sun | Sep 19, 2023 | Border Crossing, Crisis, Getting that VISA, How Did You Do That?, September 2023: Syria, Syria, Walking Tours, What Dreams May Come

  It has been a trip 12 years in the making and probably the last casualty of COVID-19 that I’m finally making up for. And as should be expected by now I’m a man of my word when it comes to travel promises: I followed through on Wales and Svalbard...
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