Travels

by Michael Crichton

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Malaysia
Friends would ask what research had taken me to Malaysia or New Guinea or Pakistan, since it was obvious that nobody would go to these places merely for recreation.
New Guinea
Friends would ask what research had taken me to Malaysia or New Guinea or Pakistan, since it was obvious that nobody would go to these places merely for recreation.
Pakistan
Friends would ask what research had taken me to Malaysia or New Guinea or Pakistan, since it was obvious that nobody would go to these places merely for recreation.
Los Angeles
Kathy Bowman of World Wide Travel in Los Angeles
San Francisco
Joyce Small of Adventures Unlimited in San Francisco
New York City, USA
I had grown up in a suburb of New York City, where my father was a journalist.
Harvard, USA
In the English department at Harvard, my writing style was severely criticized and I was receiving grades of C or C+ on my papers.
Boston, USA
But the following year I went to Boston, rented an apartment in Roxbury near the Harvard Medical School, bought my furniture, and registered for my classes.
Boston City Hospital
I am going to be late for my first clinical rotation—neurology at the Boston City Hospital.
Boston Lying In Hospital, Boston, USA
Five teaching hospitals surrounded the Harvard Medical School, but in the eyes of the students, the least interesting was then the Boston Lying In Hospital.
Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Five teaching hospitals surrounded the Harvard Medical School, but in the eyes of the students, the least interesting was then the Boston Lying In Hospital.
Boston, USA
“Yeah, well, it’s Boston,” the resident said.
Bangkok, Thailand
When I hit my doldrums, I decided I had better get moving. I decided to go to Bangkok, where my friend Davis Pike had urged me to visit him.
Hong Kong
My first stop was Hong Kong. There are few sights as exciting as landing in Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong at night.
Paris, France
I entered the museums of Paris and Amsterdam loaded down with guidebooks and commentaries.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
I entered the museums of Paris and Amsterdam loaded down with guidebooks and commentaries.
Egypt
In Egypt, I climbed the Great Pyramid of Cheops, went inside it, and then visited every archaeological site of importance between Saqqara and Aswan.
Madrid, Spain
In Madrid, I sought out obscure apartment buildings that represented the early work of Antonio Gaudí.
France
In France, I went down a checklist of buildings by Le Corbusier.
Naples, Italy
I fought the traffic of Naples in search of Caravaggios.
Greece
In Greece, I spent two weeks in the Peloponnese alone, looking at classical sites outlined by the Guide Bleu.
Victoria, Hong Kong
I walked the streets of Kowloon, then took the Star Ferry to Victoria.
Aberdeen, Hong Kong
That afternoon I took a taxi to Aberdeen, on the other side of Victoria.
Ayutthaya, Thailand
Finally we got to Ayutthaya. Davis said he was going to check his stores, see how they were doing.
Bonaire
We had come to Bonaire for a two-week diving holiday in the summer of 1974.
Bonaire
Bonaire is a Dutch island fifty miles off the coast of Venezuela.
Pahang, Malaysia
I became interested in the Sultan of Pahang, ruler of the largest and richest state in Malaysia.
Singapore
Unfortunately, when I arrived in Singapore I learned that the Sultan’s birthday was not in May.
Taman Negara, Malaysia
I decided to see something of the province of Pahang—birthday party or not—and learned that there was a national park in the middle of the jungle called Taman Negara.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
I bought a compass and a map, and I flew to Kuala Lumpur to meet my guide.
Kuala Tembeling, Malaysia
After half a day of driving, the mud track stops at a river, at a place called Kuala Tembeling.
Kuala Tahan, Malaysia
After three hours on the river, the boat pulls over at a place called Kuala Tahan.
Kuala Trengganu, Malaysia
On a boat, we go up rapids to Kuala Trengganu, where we see a monitor lizard near the river edge.
Craig Farm, Kenya
In 1975, Loren and I were staying at the Craig Farm, a sixty-square-mile preserve in northern Kenya.
Mount Kenya
We spent the day hiking on open plains, among zebras and giraffes and antelopes, with the snowy peak of Mount Kenya rising in the background.
Lamu Downs Camp, Kenya
It was in this frame of mind that I returned to Lamu Downs Camp in the evening, to spend my first night under the African stars.
Nassau County, Long Island, USA
I had never camped before, except one night at the age of eleven in the Nassau County Boy Scout Camp on Long Island.
Virgin Islands
I remember in 1968 I was getting ready to dive off a boat in the Virgin Islands, and some man was putting on all this equipment.
Bora-Bora
Once, on Bora-Bora, I was diving with my brother.
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
The odds are seven to one against,” the courier said. “Against what?” I said. “Against your making it to the top of Kilimanjaro.
Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
It was late afternoon in my camp in Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania; I was approaching the end of a two-week safari in Africa with my courier, Mark Warwick.
Los Angeles, USA
Sitting on the floor of my house in Los Angeles with guidebooks opened all around me, I had said to Loren, “Hey, look at this, we can climb Kilimanjaro. Want to do it?”
Nairobi, Kenya
So we agreed that, once back in Nairobi, if Loren said I had climbed Kilimanjaro, he would buy the dinner.
Marangu Hotel, Tanzania
The Marangu Hotel stood at the foot of the mountain. It was run by a charming elderly German woman.
Boulder, Colorado, USA
When I was a kid, I’d been on glaciers in Canada. I had visited some relatives in Boulder, Colorado.
Yucatán jungle
Dawn appears as a yellow band over the Yucatán jungle horizon, as I climb the steep Pyramid of the Magician and look out over the extensive Mayan ruins of Uxmal.
Uxmal
Dawn appears as a yellow band over the Yucatán jungle horizon, as I climb the steep Pyramid of the Magician and look out over the extensive Mayan ruins of Uxmal.
Chichén Itzá
Uxmal is a city fifty miles from the ocean and a hundred miles from Chichén Itzá.
Knossos, Crete
At Knossos, on Crete, Arthur Evans found a ruin he called the Palace of King Minos.
Asia Minor
But Schliemann merely found a previously unknown city in Asia Minor.
Mycenae, Greece
Schliemann went on to excavate at Mycenae, a known historical site in Greece.
Ireland
We are shooting in England and Ireland.
Dublin, Ireland
I am alone in Dublin; Loren is back in America finishing law school.
Mullingar, Ireland
We are in a provincial train station outside Mullingar, Ireland, about to start a week of filming on top of a speeding train.
Dublin, Ireland
Each night I drag myself home to my Dublin hotel room.
Dublin, Ireland
It is time to go back to the studio, and do something else.
London, England
I went nearly every day, on my way home from work.
Istanbul, Turkey
I had once spent a memorable hour watching a pair of Turkish street vendors in the Istanbul bazaar accost passing customers in a dozen different languages, always correctly.
Yorkshire, England
In 1920 two Yorkshire children, Elsie and Frances Wright, claimed they had photographed fairies in a country garden.
Baltistan, Pakistan
A trek into Baltistan followed the mountaineer’s route toward Masherbrum Peak, at 25,660 feet a major climbing peak in a remote area of Pakistan’s Karakoram Mountains.
Karakoram Mountains, Pakistan
On the map, they are a part of that great crumpled range of mountains that runs from Afghanistan to Burma, a range pushed up as the Indian continent drifts north into Russia—a range I always called the Himalaya.
Rawalpindi, Pakistan
All this I could see from the PIA airplane, flying from the capital city of Rawalpindi north to Skardu.
Skardu, Pakistan
And when we landed at the airfield in Skardu, we stepped out into a desert setting: suffocating heat, convection waves shimmering off the tarmac, distorting the rugged, bare peaks in a bowl all around us.
Mission Bay Road, San Diego
Linda lived in a nondescript apartment on Mission Bay Road, in a beach area of San Diego.
Khapulu, Pakistan
We drove all the next day in jeeps, following the Indus River on a road cut into the cliffs, and camped for the night at Khapulu, a large village of four hundred houses, which is how villages are sized in this part of the world.
Shyok River, Pakistan
The next morning we cross the Shyok River on a zak—a raft of inflated goat intestines tied under a platform of wooden poles, pushed by local boatmen.
Mishoke, Pakistan
Our destination for the first night is Mishoke, a small village we believe lies between the villages of Kande and Micholu.
Masherbrum Peak, Pakistan
After two days of walking, we could see good views of Masherbrum Peak before us.
Hunza, Pakistan
The tiny mountain state, known as the original Shangri-La and traditionally closed to foreigners, had been opened the year before.
Islamabad, Pakistan
In Islamabad, our group waited two days for a plane to Gilgit, the staging area for trips to Hunza.
Gilgit, Pakistan
In Islamabad, our group waited two days for a plane to Gilgit, the staging area for trips to Hunza.
Karakorum Highway, Pakistan
This extraordinary feat of engineering was a road two hundred miles long, traversing the most rugged mountain range in the world.
Indus River Gorge, Pakistan
For most of its length it followed the gorge of the Indus River, one of the great canyons of the world.
Abbottabad, Pakistan
We stopped for lunch in Abbottabad, a town with many old British colonial buildings, which had once been the farthest outpost of the British Empire in this part of the world.
Nanga Parbat, Pakistan
For the next several hours, we twisted and turned along the river, seeing spectacular views of the plunging river, and the twenty-five-thousand-foot peak of Nanga Parbat on the east.
Chilas, Pakistan
There is a military base about fifteen kilometers back, at Chilas.
Baltit, Hunza, Pakistan
Two days later I was approaching Baltit, the capital city of Hunza.
Hopar Valley, Nagir, Pakistan
From Hunza we went to the Hopar Valley in the adjacent kingdom of Nagir.
Bualtar Glacier, Nagir, Pakistan
At Nagir, we camped in a beautiful valley alongside the Bualtar Glacier.
Rangiroa, Tuamotu Islands
Rangiroa was more than an hour from Papeete, one of the Tuamotu chain of atolls.
Papeete, Tahiti
Rangiroa was more than an hour from Papeete, one of the Tuamotu chain of atolls.
Tahiti
I was in Tahiti for Christmas with my family—my brother and sister, and assorted husbands, wives, girlfriends, friends.
Tuamotu Islands
Rangiroa was more than an hour from Papeete, one of the Tuamotu chain of atolls.
Virunga, Rwanda
“You do not believe me,” she said, “but I have seen them in Virunga. Gorillas are not animals. They are men.”
Ruhengeri, Rwanda
Turning away from the line of volcanoes, he circled Ruhengeri, a shantytown built along a single muddy street.
Karisimbi Research Station, Rwanda
Her original troop, group 5, was reserved for ongoing research by scientists living at Karisimbi Research Station, located between the volcanoes.
Parc des Volcans, Rwanda
The Parc des Volcans, on the border of Rwanda and Zaire, represented a large land area for that tiny country.
Mount Sabinyo, Rwanda
In the morning, we went to the park station at nine thousand feet on the slopes of Mount Sabinyo.
Nairobi, Kenya
Dr. Fawcett had left Harvard to work at the International Laboratory for Animal Diseases in Nairobi; he had been to see the gorillas that day with a group of scientists.
Singapore
Nor did it get better driving through Singapore itself, a city that has systematically destroyed every vestige of its own exoticism in a period of ten years.
Kuantan, Malaysia
Kuantan was a big, ugly town—cement factories and Honda truck dealerships.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
They said the woman who ran it was in Kuala Lumpur and would be back in a week.
Lucerne Valley, California
In the fall of 1982 I attended Brugh Joy’s conference in the Lucerne Valley desert, in California.
Los Angeles, California
Brugh Joy was an eminent Los Angeles physician who had, through intensive meditation, moved progressively away from medicine into areas of personal growth, psychic healing, and so on.
Johns Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic
I was beginning to wonder if my interest was genuine, or if I was just making excuses. It was with relief that I learned that Brugh Joy, a somber medical man, trained at Johns Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic, had taken his own spiritual journey and now was helping others.
Tibet
The science of mentalphysics (“The Faultless Philosophy of Life”) was founded by Edwin J. Dingle, who had been to Tibet in the 1920s.
Malibu, California
Back home, I was shocked to see how beautiful my house was. I lived on the beach at Malibu, but I had long ago stopped looking at the view, and complained about the traffic instead.
Jamaica
But after a few months of separation, we drifted back together in a vague and tentative way, and since Christmas was coming up, we decided to take a trip to Jamaica together, with some other friends.
Ocho Rios, Jamaica
We rented a beautiful house in Ocho Rios, on the north shore.
Spanish Town, Jamaica
Before we left Jamaica, I wanted to go to Spanish Town in the south, where I had learned there was a new museum of early Jamaican artifacts.
Blue Mountains, Jamaica
On a clear, sunny day, we set off to drive over the Blue Mountains, heading south.
Kingston, Jamaica
After quaint Ocho Rios, Spanish Town was startling in its sprawl and squalor. A shantytown west of Kingston, it was poor, colorful, and charged with menace.
San Diego
And Kate’s friend Linda lived in San Diego, two hours by car.
Sibu, Borneo
I finally landed at a small inland town called Sibu, on the banks of a broad, muddy jungle river.
Ghorapani, Nepal
A few years earlier, during a trek in Nepal, my Sherpa guide took me to the top of a hill at a place called Ghorapani, pointed to the view and said, 'The Kali-Gandaki Gorge.'
Kali-Gandaki Gorge, Nepal
The Kali-Gandaki river cuts between the peaks of Dhaulagiri to the west and Annapurna 1 to the east—respectively the sixth and tenth highest mountains in the world.
Tari, New Guinea
I am in a house made of thatched grass in Tari, a remote province in the highlands of New Guinea.
Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore
As I watch this, all I can think of is the carpeting in the elevators of the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore.
Mount Hagen, New Guinea
For example, if there is a fight in some other place, such as the city of Mount Hagen, and one of Hebrew’s relatives kills someone from another tribe, then the dead man’s kin may come looking for Hebrew to pay him back.
Sepik River, New Guinea
Then, in the north, there is a flat, hot jungle region, where life is organized around rivers, principally the Sepik and its tributaries.
New Guinea Highlands
But the majority of the population lives in the mountainous interior of the New Guinea Highlands, and these people were not even known to exist until the 1930s.
Pasadena, California
If I was going to talk effectively to the Pasadena chapter of CSICOP, I was going to have my work cut out for me.
English Channel
MacCready went on to make the 'Gossamer Albatross,' the first human-powered airplane to cross the English Channel.