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Searching for My

Shangri La

Travels in S E Asia

John Staniland

KEY SELLING POINTS
A readable, pacy and humorous account of independent travel through this fascinating part of the world.
Following on from the author’s earlier Midlife Meanderings in SE Asia (ISBN: 9781805141655).
A description of lightweight backpacking in middle age.

Searching for My Shangri La is the author’s second of book on the region, after Midlife Meanderings in SE
Asia. It is about continuing an independent and unstructured journey through this fascinating part of the world
on a shoe-string budget.

Largely using public transport, the author travelled from southern Thailand to Malaysia to explore the islands of
Langkawi and Penang. A boat then took him across the Straits of Malacca to Medan, the capital of Indonesia,
which is to the north of the large island state of Sumatra. After an exhilarating, and often uncomfortable,
journey southwards, he found himself opposite Singapore and needed to take a ferry across to this city-state to
continue his journey by air to Hong Kong. After a thorough exploration of this former British Colonial outpost, a
fast ferry took him on to Macau. A couple of days are then spent in this exhilarating former Portuguese colony
preparing to explore southwest China and a comprehensive voyage of discovery of the Yunnan Province to the
edge of the Himalayas. Returning to Thailand meant undertaking a bizarre journey down the Mekong, flanked
by Burma and Laos. Once reacquainted with northern Thailand there were a few days before it was time to head
to Bangkok for the flight back to the UK.

John Staniland is an inveterate traveller and keen sportsperson. Having been a competitive player in the past
he still maintains a keen fitness regime today. Now retired he has more opportunities to travel the world and
add to my growing list of countries visited, often combining trips with following sports tours.

Comparative title: 9781805141655 Midlife Meanderings in SE Asis (Nov 2023)

Publication Date: 28th February 2024 £13.99 ISBN: 9781805142232
Thema subject category: WTLC – Classic travel writing
paperback 234 x 156 mm 216 pp Portrait Author location: Hampshire

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