15 November 2008
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Thailand
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Last Update 05 January 2009
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P: The hospital in Bangkok was great. Sadly I was pretty much feeling fine when I arrived. We had a nice taxi arranged for us from the airport to the hospital not something we really wanted but the luxury was welcome! The streets of Bangkok were crowded as it was rush hour but after driving past the...
14 September 2008
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Lao
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Last Update 05 January 2009
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P: I was feeling sick on arrival in Luang Prabang, just a little nauseous nothing serious... The town was in the middle of a Dragon Boat festival and was very well decorated. The special market was in full swing when we arrived and had taken over the entire main street for the length of at least a k...
13 September 2008
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Lao
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Last Update 05 January 2009
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P: Getting to the Plain of Jars was a little arduous! The bus was supposed to leave at seven thirty and in true Lao style the tickets could only be bought on the day of travel. That morning worried about availability we went to the bus station at seven after a very hurried breakfast. We got ou...
12 September 2008
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Lao
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Last Update 05 January 2009
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A: We took a night bus from Pakse to Vientiane. The bus was pretty much how you would imagine the bus in Harry Potter. We had real beds, TV... It was pretty cool. Once in Vientiane, we eventually found a place to stay and then had a look around town. When you look over the Mekong river, you can see ...
11 September 2008
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Lao
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Last Update 05 January 2009
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A: Pakse was mainly a one-main-street town in which we stayed a few days in order to organise motorbikes. We wanted to do the "southern swing" described in the LP guidebook and also came highly recommended by a guy we met in Vietnam. Let me tell you here a lovely example of intercultural u...
10 September 2008
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Lao
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Last Update 05 January 2009
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P: Well Laos proved to be pretty different pretty quickly! A few minutes after crossing the border we were trundled off of the bus. Thankfully the Argentinians we had been travelling with were left on the bus. We then had to give our bags to a motorbike driver who balanced them between his legs and ...
18 August 2008
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Cambodia
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Last Update 29 September 2008
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P: We arrived after five hours on a dirt track in the town of Ban Lung in Rattannakiri in north east Cambodia. It was dark after and wet when we arrived. The town had seemingly received two entire days worth of rain which stopped just before we arrived. Once again we were assaulted by Tuk-tuk driver...
17 August 2008
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Cambodia
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Last Update 29 September 2008
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P: It would be impossible to sum up the beauty, style and atmosphere of the Temples at Angkor in a piece of writing. Even pictures could never do them justice. Our first treat on the morning going there was a monkey sitting on the side of the road eating some fruit. We rented a Tuk-tuk to take us ar...
16 August 2008
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Cambodia
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Last Update 29 September 2008
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P: Cambodia... at last! I had been looking forward to crossing the border for a few days. It was a damn impressive border crossing too. Apart from the usual scam to get more money from someone (which we avoided) the border crossing was simple. The Cambodians have constructed a massive temple like st...
14 August 2008
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Vietnam
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Last Update 24 August 2008
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A: We arrived in Ho-Chi-Minh-City (HCMC) at around 6 am. We did not have the greatest sleep in the sleeper bus we took from Nha Trang and just wished for a hotel room with a nice bed to relax a bit. As we already described in other stories it is not the easiest thing to get a hotel room early in the...
