Publisher's Synopsis
After living apart for over 18 years, Shaun Donovan and his teenage daughter, Hayley, decide to make-up for lost time, by embarking on a 60,000km voyage of discovery: a journey that would inevitably take them half-way around the world. 'Asia -Me & My Girl' tells the amazing true story of the first half of their incredible adventure, as they travel 20,000km overland from their hometown of Cardiff, in South Wales, to the Far Eastern shores of Singapore. Read all about their unforgettable six-day crossing of Siberia, before traversing the infamous Gobi Desert in Mongolia -and how they are kidnapped and virtually held to ransom by a bogus taxi-driver and his compatriots in Beijing, China. Shaun also tells the unbelievable stories of how he and his daughter had a magnificent day in Xi'an, visiting the Terracotta Warriors -before meeting the farmer who had actually discovered them -and how the pair of them had their photo taken with the one and only living survivor of the notorious 'S21' Prison Camp from the 'Killing Fields' of Cambodia. In Thailand all hell breaks loose as our intrepid explorers spend their days bottle-feeding leopard cubs, walking with tigers -and swimming with elephants, before climbing the 7-tiers of the Erawan Waterfall, crossing the Bridge over the River Kwai, riding the Thailand to Burma 'Death Railway' -and walking the length of 'Hellfire Pass'. To round-off their ten-week 'Voyage of Discovery' our dynamic duo pay a visit to the phenomenal PETRONAS Towers in Malaysia -and in Singapore they come face-to-face with the 'Lords of the Jungle', as they embark on their first ever 'night-time safari'.
