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                    <title>G'day Sydney</title>
                    <description>SydneyWe decided to catch the train between Melbourne and Sydney as it was a lot cheaper than flying and by this stage we were used to long long days on trains and buses. Australian trains seemed like luxury in comparison to those in South East Asia with no change of a squat toilet insight although squatting on a moving train is quite an experience.We were up and ready by 6.30am the next mor</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/blog-583364.html</link>
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                    <title>My my it's cold in Melbourne</title>
                    <description>MelbourneWe left Bangkok in the early evening and flew with Malaysian Airlines to Kuala Lumpur where we had arranged to spend the night in a hotel near the airport. We had decided to break the trip up mostly because we needed to get into Melbourne in the evening when our friends would be home from work to pick us up from the airport. It turned out to be  good decision as we got into our hotel at a</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/blog-579402.html</link>
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                    <title>Tubing in Vang Vieng</title>
                    <description>Vang ViengThere should be a large bold warning stuck on the bus journey taken from Luang Prabang to Vang Vieng. The trip involves about five hours of incredibly twisty windy mountain roads which would reduce even the most hardened of stomachs to a bit of mush. Anyone with a hint of travel sickness would not have a chance. Thankfully we had a tip off about this in advance and chose to take a minibu</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/West/Vang-Vieng/blog-531036.html</link>
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                    <title>Laos Land of 'laxing out</title>
                    <description>Luang PrabangWe opted to fly from Hanoi to Luang Prabang in Laos mostly as we had heard nightmare stories about the overland trip there and 24 hours on a bus didn't particularly appeal. The flight on Vietnam airlines was straight forward no tropical storms to fly through this time thankfully. We got some guesthouse recommendations at the airport then paid the fixed 50000kip for a taxi into town</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/West/Luang-Prabang/blog-530907.html</link>
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                    <title>Vietnam Water puppets  Ha Long Bay</title>
                    <description>HanoiAfter a very long and expensive taxi ride later we arrived at our hotel in Hanoi Thai Son I. We had booked a room for a very good rate on Agoda much cheaper than normally advertised and we were duly put into the smallest room on the top floor which even the elevator didn't reach. However this was definitely adequate enough for our needs. When we arrived we had to wait in the lobby until </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Northeast/blog-528077.html</link>
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                    <title>Hoi An  Hue tailors and tropical storms</title>
                    <description>Hoi AnOur next stop Hoi An has been made a UNESCO World Heritage site mostly for the colonial style architecture in the town's old quarter. According to UNESCO its an exceptionally wellpreserved example of a SouthEast Asian trading port dating from the 15th to the 19th century.Hoi An is also well known for the prolific number of tailoring stores which all offer made to measure clothes at va</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Thua-Thien-Hu-/Hue/blog-528042.html</link>
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                    <title>Vietnam Muddling about in Nha Trang</title>
                    <description>Nha TrangWe decided to book a day train north from Ho Chi Minh City to Nha Trang as the seven hour journey wasn't long enough for an overnight train. The main trains that service the country from Hanoi to Ho Chi are called the Reunification Express. They come in a few different classes. The more modern trains offer soft seat and soft sleeper while the older ones have hard seat and hard sleepers </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/South-Central-Coast/Khanh-Hoa/Nha-Trang/blog-527897.html</link>
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                    <title>Vietnam Miss  Mr Saigon</title>
                    <description>Ho Chi Minh CityWe left Sihanoukville in Southern Cambodia bright and early on a Mekong Express bus headed back to Phnom Penh. We had a two hour break in the capital enough time for an extremely tasty lunch before boarding another bus which would take us all the way through the border and into Vietnam. Unfortunately we would only be able to say Goood evveeening Vietnaaaam hehe as the bus w</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/District-1/blog-525591.html</link>
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                    <title>Killing Fields  killer beaches</title>
                    <description>Phnom PenhOur next destination was Cambodia's capital city Phnom Penh located on the banks of the Mekong River. After researching online we decided to take the Mekong Express bus from Siem Reap. Although it was about 2 more expensive than other buses it had good recommendations from other travellers. You also get a receipt for the luggage you store underneath the bus which you must produce at t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-525344.html</link>
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                    <title>Cambodia Angkor...what</title>
                    <description>Siem ReapIt took the best part of the day to get from Phuket to Cambodia. We flew from Phuket airport at 6.55am to Bangkok then after a transit of about one hour boarded another flight to Siem Reap in the north of the country. Siem Reap is the launching point for visiting the temples of Angkor Wat one of the seven wonders of the world.The temples were created by the Khmer civilisation and are d</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Siem-Reap/blog-525216.html</link>
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                    <title>Pissing about in Phuket</title>
                    <description>PhuketThe next morning we said a sad goodbye to Koh Tao having thoroughly enjoyed our time there. We had a long journey a head to get to Phuket in one day. We had a two hour ferry across to the next island Koh Phangan. We then had to get our bags and disembark and wait on the wharf for 20 minutes for another boat to come along. The second ferry took us to Koh Samui ending at the port of Surat Tha</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Phuket/blog-525065.html</link>
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                    <title>Diving into Koh Tao</title>
                    <description>Koh TaoAfter the hassle  bustle of the big city that is Bangkok we decided to head to a more mellow scene on the island of Koh Tao. Koh Tao is famous for its excellent dive areas within spitting distance from the island. This is why Brent had chosen it to complete his open water dive certification.To get to the island we embarked on a six hour train journey south to Chumphon the mainland gatewa</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/blog-525054.html</link>
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                    <title>Bangkok heat humidity and Chang</title>
                    <description>BangkokWe flew to Jo'Burg again first then on to Kuala Lumpur then finally to Bangkok all with Malaysian Airlines. Malaysian Airlines was okay but no patch on Singapore Airlines or Air New Zealand. Neither of us managed to get any sleep  as the flying time was during the day instead we caught up on the latest movies we had missed while in Africa. Not a great idea as we arrived in Bangkok in th</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-517786.html</link>
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                    <title>Cape Town  World Cup Fever  Bed Bugs...</title>
                    <description>CapetownCapetownWe flew from Livingstone to Jo'Burg then transited for about an hour before catching our flight to Capetown. During the transit we picked up some eyedrops for Cath who had picked up an infection in her right eye probably due to putting contact lenses in and out in a grubby tent for a month  We arrived in Capetown arond 7.30pm and took a shuttle bus south to Simonstown where we w</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Africa/Western-Cape/Cape-Town/blog-517733.html</link>
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                    <title>The end is nigh  Victoria Falls</title>
                    <description>ZambiaOur first night was spent in Lilongwe the capital city of Malawi and some much needed grocery shopping at Shoprite  the South African supermarket chain  getting the neccessities like water chocolate and chips. Another long day of driving and we made it through the border to Chipata to a campsite called Mama Rulas. Here we saw New Zealand play their final World Cup game  a good effort ag</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Livingstone/blog-517730.html</link>
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                    <title>Paradise in Zanzibar  Lake Malawi</title>
                    <description>ZanzibarWe left the campsite by the beach at the crack of dawn nothing new here...anything after 5am was now considered a sleep in in order to catch the ferry. It was a fairly calm crossing which took just under 2 hours to get to Stonetown where we would spend our first night. Just after our arrival a group of us went on a Spice Tour  something the island is famous for as well as being a vita</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Zanzibar/blog-517727.html</link>
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                    <title>Game on  Serengeti  The Ngorongoro Crater</title>
                    <description>Tanzania  The SerengetiAfter one night back in Nairobi and back with our tour guide Marietjie who had stayed behind we were back on our big truck Tana and on our way to the border with Tanzania. After a long days drive we arrived in our home for the night in Arusha at a campsite called Snake Park. Unfortunatey there was a GOOD reason for this name. There were snakes actual snakes all aroun</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-517703.html</link>
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                    <title>On the road again  Masai Mara</title>
                    <description>NairobiAfter four days of quarantine in Kampala Brent had a good coating of itchy spots all over his torso arms down his legs and a few in unmentionable places. However after a while Cath internet selfdiagnosis queen did not think the spots were progressing as they should be. So we returned back to our original doctor at The Surgery and she confirmed that yes Brent did NOT have the chicke</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Kenya/Nairobi-Province/blog-517680.html</link>
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                    <title>Uganda Rapids Red Dirt and.....chickenpox</title>
                    <description>UgandaBorder crossingWe departed Eldoret just after sunrise in order to make the border crossing with Uganda before it got too busy. We packed sandwiches and bananas in the morning to have on the bus whilst we were on the road. We got to the border just before lunchtime and spent the best part on an hour there. Marietjie gathered up all of our passports and our money for our Ugandan visas and sort</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/blog-501701.html</link>
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                    <title>Kenya The tour begins</title>
                    <description>NairobiWe flew out of Addis Ababa and into Nairobi on Friday 21 May leaving behind our independent travels for a few weeks to join an ACACIA overland tour. We had decided due to the great distances to travel and timetable it would be easier to do this part of the journey with a tour. We stayed at the Hotel Boulevard the night before the tour departure meeting all our fellow bustruck it's stil</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Kenya/Rift-Valley-Province/Lake-Nakuru-NP/blog-501682.html</link>
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