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                    <title>Nepal  Annapurna trekking</title>
                    <description> Andrew We have returned safe and sound from our 16day trek walking 230km's and up to an altitude of 5416m's  through the worlds biggest pass  Throung La Pass.  First some highlights and then the day by day account....  HIGHLIGHTS   Of course making it up to 5416m's The views from the top were amazing  we had many 7 thousand and 6 thousand high mountains around us. The main risk was al</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Annapurna/blog-161266.html</link>
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                    <title>Northern Vietnam</title>
                    <description> Jen We arrived late into Hanoi and decided to stay down a quiet alleyway. Little did we know that at 5am it turned into a bustling food market filled with live crabs live fish and lots of fruit and vegetables Luckily we had to wake early that morning so that we could travel to Halong Bay.  We took a three day boat cruise around Halong Bay and the scenery was beautiful. Although the boat was f</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Northwest/blog-161276.html</link>
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                    <title>Southern Vietnam</title>
                    <description> Jen We travelled from Cambodia to Vietnam along the Mekong River which took us two days. We travelled with another kiwi Brent a Brit Sonya and South African Chris all of whom we had met in Siem Reap. The boat took us along the river and down canals through to Chau Doc the Vietnam border. Along the way there were many locals bathing in the river and they were all waving and saying hell</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-161264.html</link>
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                    <title>Visitng our World Vision sponsored child in Cambodia</title>
                    <description> Andrew I've been sponsoring Barang Hang 12 years old for the past 3 years through the World Vision organisation. I've had his photo on my fridge throughout this time and updated it each year when a new one arrived and we had shared basic correspondence throughout the years xmas card Khymer year new card so the chance to met him in person and visit his community was a pretty exciting time. </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-153375.html</link>
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                    <title>Cambodia land mines  reality hits hard</title>
                    <description> On our first day in the town of Siem Reap Cambodia we decided to visit the landmine museum that had been recommended to us by fellow travellers. We had also seen a glimpse of it on the Intrepid Journey's TV program.  The landmine museum is run by one man who has dedicated his life to defusing and removing landmines from around Cambodia. The museum is on his own land and only contains a couple o</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Siem-Reap/blog-151455.html</link>
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                    <title>Angkor Wat</title>
                    <description> Ancient temples here we come. We hired a tuk tuk driver as our guide and off we went.  Angkor Wat was built by Suryavarman II in 111252 and it was amazing to see the temple still in such good condition. Makes New Zealand seem a newborn infant in comparison to how old all these temples were. We visited Angkor Wat for both sunset and sunrise along with every other tourist but it still was imp</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Angkor/blog-153361.html</link>
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                    <title>PP Island Paradise in Thailand</title>
                    <description> Brick Both myself and Jen had visted Thailand beaches before however neither of us had been to the Phuket side West of Thailand  as we had heard many good things about it we deicded now was our time.  We flew into Phuket from Kuala Lumpur and travelled down to Karon beach to spend one night. The beach was a mini paradise  we had a fantastic sunset on the beach with our fried rice and can of </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Ko-Phi-Phi-Don/blog-145414.html</link>
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                    <title>Kuala Lumpur</title>
                    <description> Jen Our original plan was to see if we could head to Taman Negara National Park but by the time we had taken the bus from Singapore to Johor Bharu Malaysian border gone through customs taken another bus to KL and then spent about an hour figuring out where the bus to Taman Negara went from we got there 30mins too late and missed the bus...grrr.  So KL we stayed. We stayed at a backpackers i</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Wilayah-Persekutuan/Kuala-Lumpur/blog-144351.html</link>
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                    <title>Singapore</title>
                    <description> Jen As we arrived off the plane in Singapore I immediately felt clean. Everywhere is clean and tidy in Singapore and it was a nice change from Indonesia. We arrived late at night and checked into our hostel which offered us The Rooftop room which turned out to be literally 16 beds all on the roof of the building...very funny. The hostel was full of western tourists and I'd say at least 34 of</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/blog-144345.html</link>
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                    <title>Khao San Rd Bangkok</title>
                    <description>Jen We arrived at the new Bangkok airport and immediately noticed the lack of chaos that we had encountered the last time we had come. We meet a group of tourists at the airport and shared a taxi with them to Khao San Rd. They included an older couple who had been travelling for 10 years and had just come to Bangkok to get their teeth checked And an Irish guy Emmet and an English guy Chris L</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-139437.html</link>
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                    <title>Beach hopping North Island NZ</title>
                    <description>Jen So with a shed of tears and feelings of excitement Bernie our carloaded full of Val Ean Jen and Brick started their travels of the north island. By the time we had sorted out all our clothes last minute chores i.e. Bricks passport from the UK embassey which was almost forgotten etc etc. We left Wellington to hit rush hour traffic and got as far as Waiterere Beach before it was dark and </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/blog-135527.html</link>
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                    <title>Time to relax in Bali</title>
                    <description>Brick  Life is tough in Bali.  The places we stay don't have great showers so every morning we have to get up and swim in the warm ocean.  There's no TV or internet so each day we have to make do and just lie around in the sun reading books eating drinking yarning to other travelers...and then the next day just repeat it all again...its tough.So we arrive at Bali airport after an announcement </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/blog-139451.html</link>
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                    <title>Mt Bromo Java</title>
                    <description>Brick  Time for something a bit more adventurous... how about visiting 3 volcano's of which 2 are active and walking right up to the crater lip of one....why not its Indonesia  the land of natural chaosSo Gunung Bromo is the place.  We drive for two hours straight up the side of a mountain actually an ancient volcano itself in a local minivan.  The minivan is how locals get from the town ma</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Java/Bromo-Tengger-Semeru/blog-139457.html</link>
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                    <title>Canberra</title>
                    <description>Jen We arrived in Sydney airport and took the bus to Canberra. There we spent 3 days with my aunty uncle and cousins. The first day we arrived was a scorcher and hibernating inside next to the aircon was the only thing to do. We took Brick on a tour of Canberra showing him the wonders of the city including Parliament house Black Mountain Lake War Memorial etc. Brick and I did a tour of parl</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Australian-Capital-Territory/Canberra/blog-139434.html</link>
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