So theres a lot to catch up on.and I have to do it sometime, here we go!

Many of you have probably heard from either Flora or myself that I left Mae Hong Son to travel on my own and she is still there. In the simplest terms possible - the man we were staying with made me feel very uncomfortable. He treated me very differently from Flora and those differences were starting to effect me quite a lot so I decided that I needed to move out of his house. SO many decisions were made within a matter of days - Flora and I spent the night in a monastery not far from Mae Hong Son and our time there was doubtless incredibly helpful in figuring out what to do. I love Mae Hong Son, but for a variety of reasons I decided that travel was the best thing for me after that. My mom is meeting me in Bangkok on May 10, so I didnt have too much time left anyway, I had envisioned more travel in my time in Southeast Asia than had happened, and I wanted to get away from him. Flora stayed behind and has had to deal with more issues surrounding our host..when I told him that I was leaving he became incredibly emotional and unstable (affirming my decision to leave) and asked Flora to move out as well. Shes still in Mae Hong Son, living with a friend until she moves into a guest house and working for the other organization we had been involved with.

Speaking at the first Great Indian Travel Bazaar-2008, Tourism Minister Ambika Soni said here Monday that the areas for the 20 mega projects have already been identified and for each project the central government would provide Rs.250 million which would be used to beautify the areas.

Ajmer in Rajasthan has been chosen as a pilot project, she said.

India will face a shortfall of 1,50,000 rooms for tourist accommodation by 2010, says a government report.

It wants more hotels, even on the beaches, to meet tourists needs, and five world-class convention centres to promote conference tourism.