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                    <title>Home sweet home.</title>
                    <description>So we made it to Japan in just about one piece  Surprisingly our flights were all on time and our baggage made it with us so we just had to survive one night in Tokyo before heading down to our new home of Iida. We attempted to sleep in the airport but at 11pm it started to close and we were forced to make a quick exit. We caught a train into Tokyo which took over an hour. We eventually stopped </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nagano/blog-404552.html</link>
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                    <title>The start of something new and the best of our photos</title>
                    <description>So not including local transport at least...9 hours on trains20 hours on boats37 hours on planes346 hours on buses51 different beds72 different towns12 pages of each of our passports143 days429 meals2 broken backpacksfar too many beers and a big bag of money later...and we're in Japan working in local elementary schools.And that's the end of it. No more backside and soul destroying nightbuses</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nagano/blog-388403.html</link>
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                    <title>Visas elephants and white water rafting in Chaing Mai</title>
                    <description>Okay so we were a bit unfair to Thailand and thought it was all partyanimal beaches and whores. Sure there are hookers everywhere and tons of old sometimes very old white guys with uncomfortable looking 'partners' but Chaing Mai is a world away from Bangkok. There's so much more character and realism about the place. And so much to do that we need little subheadings in this oneRaftingIt's a</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-382453.html</link>
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                    <title>The Gibbon Experience blog</title>
                    <description>The bloody staff cancelled our bloody booking We said we'd be in the office 'first thing'. Dom went there at 7.30 and they were closed so went back at 8.10 and was apparently 10 minutes late and the bookings had been given to other people What the hell So anyway we had to wait till the next day which wasn't so bad. Hoi Xiay the town on the Thai border spelt differently on every signpost doe</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/West/Bokeo-Nature-Reserve/blog-382452.html</link>
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                    <title>Laura and Dom survive a weekend in hell</title>
                    <description>Oh my god have we died and gone to hell What on earth is this place I guess noone elses guidebook says Please do not walk around in bikinis or with your shirt off because it is offensive to the culture and religion of your host country. Vang Vieng was like Ibiza or Magaluf or some other tourist hellhole of synthetic drugs and vodka redbull vomiting tossers. What kind of disrespectful A holes</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/West/Vang-Vieng/blog-382445.html</link>
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                    <title>We find Hobnobs in Laos</title>
                    <description>So what to do with about two weeks left before our flights to Japan and inevitable entry into the world of work next month Being in Bangkok it was clear that whatever it was it had to not be in Bangkok.After briefly deciding to go back to Cambodia we bought a guide book to Laos and went there instead Now Laos has a reputation for being very very cheap and very very awesome. Imagine our shoc</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/West/Vientiane/blog-381365.html</link>
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                    <title>The blog with the maggots and a load of temples a beach and a flight</title>
                    <description>Well here's our last blog from Myanmar. I'll try not to taint it with the anger I feel at the firing range here Laos being closed.Buses in the North of Myanmar take a great many hours to travel very short distances. Hence why the trip from Mandalay to Bagan took all day. Oh well at least it wasn't as horrible and windy as the one from Inle to Mandalay. All the buses are crappy old Japanese bang</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Mandalay-Region/Bagan/blog-377759.html</link>
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                    <title>Mandalay and around the blog before the one where we all had maggots in our food</title>
                    <description>Mandalay is a harmless city with a fantastic chapatti stand one chapatti and veggie curry is less than 35p. We were there few a couple of days and took the boat to nearby Mingun where what would have been the largest pagoda in the world stands uncompleted and cracked from the big earthquake in 1975 which seems to have damaged everything in Myanmar.The boat left at 9am and we were on it after</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Mandalay-Region/Mandalay/blog-377269.html</link>
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                    <title>Trekking to Inle with Doh the only good chef in Myanmar</title>
                    <description>Waking up at 6.45 wouldn't have been so bad if Kalaw wasn't so coldBreakfast was served in the top floor hall with beautiful panoramic views  a good thing about Myanmar is the quality of the hotels. There are government standards and prices which have to be kept to which means that 90 of the beds are better than 90 of beds anywhere else in SE Asia and breakfast is always included if a lit</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Mandalay-Region/Kalaw/blog-377180.html</link>
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                    <title>Bago the Golden Rock the biggest Buddha in the country and the Worst bus journey of our lives</title>
                    <description>Well at the end of our Myanmar trip we have mixed feelings. There have been some great times but most of the 'highlights' were big letdowns. Especially with the awful excruciatingly long 'bus' journeys.Anyway...After our adventures in Yangon we headed to what would turn out to be one of the actual highlights of our trip. With Anders and Pauline and our new friend Kris we got the bus to Bago. A</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Yangon-Region/Bago/blog-375869.html</link>
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                    <title>The funny things that happened to us in Yangon</title>
                    <description>For those that don't know we are travelling with a Swedish friend of ours called Anders. This blog features the seven major funny things that happened in the last few days.It could well be the most interesting country out of the 21 we have seen so far and the people are usually very very friendly but the travelling in Myanmar is a definitely not for wimps. English is rare though anyone who </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Yangon-Region/Yangon/blog-368044.html</link>
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                    <title>Malaria or gutwrenching sickness</title>
                    <description>Sihanouk Ville is so greatIt's covered in Copacabanarivalling beaches and surrounded by awesome islands. The snorkeling wasn't up to much because of recent storms  and no whale sharks here unfortunately. But if this isn't paradise then what is 25c beer 'happy' pizza and shakes everywhere. Beautifully comfortable seats on the beach which you can sleep on all night for free mid30s heat with l</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Sihanoukville/blog-366018.html</link>
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                    <title>'The Phillipines makes me furious' and other stories</title>
                    <description>So as you know we decided to leave the Phillipines because of the weather. We braved the rain to go and change our flights flipped off the entire country and watched in horror as the clouds parted to reveal a laughing diety. The last few days were glorious Perfect diving weather perfect beach weather and perfect beer weather though we only got to do the beer bit because we spent the days tra</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Siem-Reap/blog-366006.html</link>
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                    <title>OK Philippines you win we don't want trouble. We're leaving. Be cool.</title>
                    <description>We came to the Philippines with a hot tip to see whale sharks off the tourist track. We were so excited.Then it started to rain I got chatted up by a subtle prostitute it rained some more and then we looked at a weather forecast.Typhoon Nothing will stop the weathered travellers Except a typhoon. Especially one which will cover the whole of the Philippines for the duration of our visas. God d</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Negros/Dumaguete/blog-359671.html</link>
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                    <title>The Philippines so far  to Moalboal</title>
                    <description>So we arrived in the Philippines just in time for my birthday so thought it would be a good idea to head straight to a beach with diving for Dom and a luxury resort for me So we spent an interesting night in Manila and then hopped straight on a flight to Cebu city where we spent an entire day looking for accommodation. We are seriously about to throw our lonely planet away as it just sucks in f</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Cebu/Moalboal/blog-358708.html</link>
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                    <title>Christmas in the Jungle </title>
                    <description>So as you all know we spent christmas in the jungle with some friends we met traveling. We took a few crates of beer LOTS of bottles of Arak Chinese brandy and lots of nips like peanut mms and were set. We saw lots of monkeys mainly probiscous although we did see an orangutan which was amazing although he was a sleepy teenager so didn't do much. We saw hornbills and eagles and crocodiles</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Sabah/Kinabatangan/blog-358705.html</link>
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                    <title>Uncle Chang's  the party capital of Borneo</title>
                    <description>OK So we finally have a computer that will let us upload some pictures so here it goes As we are a few blogs behind we have decided to just mainly post pictures to show you what we did rather than tell you.These photos are from Uncle Changs which was on the island Dom learned to dive on and close to sipidan where the photos from the last blog were taken. A few photos are from Kota Kinabulu whe</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Sabah/Sipadan/blog-358693.html</link>
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                    <title>Under the sea in Borneo </title>
                    <description>After visiting Kota Kinabulu and deciding not to climb the mountain but to save our pennies and go learn to dive we took the horrible night bus to Semporna. After arriving at 4am and wandering around town until we found a hostel with 24 hour reception we managed to book ourselves a little trip to Mabul island. We've just returned from a week with dear Uncle Chang on Mabul island. Mabul is famous f</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Sabah/Mabul/blog-356038.html</link>
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                    <title>A week in the rainforest of Borneo  Mulu</title>
                    <description>It's been a while but we've been busy indeed and surprisingly the Borneo Rainforest doesn't have much of an internet connection Miri was our first stop after mainland Malaysia but if you can avoid spending longer than maybe 2 hours in the oil town then do it. Miri is awful. Not cheap either. The 'highland hostel' has bad reviews from everyone who goes there due to the 'crazy cat lady' who works </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Sarawak/Gunung-Mulu-National-Park/blog-353184.html</link>
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                    <title>Penang  the coast at last </title>
                    <description>So we reached the coast at last We got to Penang after a drive down from the Cameron Highlands and the heat hit us We are definatly not in the highlands anymore We're staying in Georgetown the main town on the island in the mandatory china town. We checked into a hotel called the 'the blue diamond' which was 30RM a night for a double room with a shower The loos may have been minging but the</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Penang/Batu-Ferringhi/blog-348779.html</link>
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