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                    <title>Polo at the Shandur Pass</title>
                    <description>Being back at Qayum's was great it had become a kind of home away from home. The day before the Shandur Festival we headed into Gilgit town to do a little bit of shopping and complete our 'local look'. A brilliant felt waistcoat and traditional Chitrali hat to go with my shalwar kameez and I was all set. In fact on the little Suzuki back to Qayum's some local guys tried to start a conversation in</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Pakistan/Northern-Areas/blog-431679.html</link>
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                    <title>Nanga Parbat</title>
                    <description>We stayed and chilled at Qayum's for 3 or 4 days. Just relaxing chatting and sorting out rough travel plans. We jumped on the back of Suzukis little pick ups with seats in the back down to Gilgit most days I bought a shalwar kameez which apparently lead to me becoming indistinguishable from some of the locals and we both bought some hiking boots decent ones for less than 15 pounds for a co</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Pakistan/Northern-Areas/blog-424900.html</link>
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                    <title>A Long Journey North...</title>
                    <description>This has been a long time coming I know I'm a long way behind but bear with me....Arriving into Mumbai on the night of the 22nd of June I was struck by the immense humidity for that time at night and also extremely amused by the swine flu screening area at CST Airport. Sign a bit of paper saying you don't have any fluey symptoms pass it to a very serious looking Indian man in a surgical mask a</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Pakistan/Northern-Areas/blog-422922.html</link>
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                    <title>Uganda  The final leg and finally travelling again</title>
                    <description>So 15 countries and 135 days since leaving home we've reached Uganda It's great to be back its such a fantastic and beautiful place Since I last wrote in Arusha things have picked up and travelling has become exciting again We spent our last full day in Tanzania on safari in the stunning Ngorugoru Crater. The day after I wrote last we us 3 the 2 swedish guys and the 3 girls from devon got d</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/blog-288026.html</link>
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                    <title>Africa so far...</title>
                    <description>I'm going to try and sum up the last month as best I can I'm sat in an internet cafe in Arusha Tanzania with 3 days left of the overland trip from Johannesburg to Nairobi its been a long month but I'll try and fill you in Its going to be a bit of an essay so I apologise The mission flight from Sydney to Jo'burg via.. DUBAI wasn't as bad as we were expecting. The first leg  16 hours went </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/blog-285425.html</link>
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                    <title>Brisbane Fraser Island and Sydney return</title>
                    <description>I know this has been a long time coming I'm writing most of this from Victoria Falls in Zambia but I'll start where I left off in Surfers Paradise. We spent 2 more days there which consisted of hiring surf boards and getting progressively better but still in general pretty terrible compared to the amazing guys you see going out there On our second last night we went to the bar downstairs to make</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Fraser-Island/blog-274701.html</link>
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                    <title>Falling out of planes and off tables</title>
                    <description>The evening before skydiving we decided it had to be a night off the drink and an early night too so we went to the little cinema next door to the hostel and saw a reasonably funny film called forgetting jessica parker. After spending the afternoon watching byron bay skydives it was nice to have a bit of escapism to pass the time We got to bed early and I had a surprisingly good sleep and next t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Gold-Coast/Surfers-Paradise/blog-271440.html</link>
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                    <title>Heading North</title>
                    <description>This is going to be a quick one as I don't have too long and not too much has happened Anyway we got up ridiculously early to get our 6am bus to Coffs Harbour. Going down to the lobby to check out was funny as all the die hard Liverpool and Chelsea fans were all still up watching the football live Sydney sent us off with some heavy rain which was no surprise we were glad to be getting out The </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Byron-Bay/blog-270081.html</link>
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                    <title>Slobbing in Sydney</title>
                    <description>So basically we've been in Sydney this entire time just hoping for an improvement in the weather but it never really came. We have had an absolute laugh though its been hilarious. On the day I last wrote the weather made it a complete right off so we didn't do much with ourselves. Katie managed to sort out her online banking and transfered all the money she'd borrowed over the last month to me and</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/blog-268869.html</link>
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                    <title>Down Under</title>
                    <description>Our flight from Singapore to Melbourne was alright I started to feel really feverish and cold during which wasnt much fun clearly coming down with something We arrived at around 1am on the night of the 10th11th and everything was really easy to negotiate. I thanked the customs officer and got a very Aussie 'no worries mate'. Yep we'd definitely landed In the arrivals hall my debit card didn'</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/blog-266951.html</link>
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                    <title>Kuala Lumpur and Singapore</title>
                    <description>So we've travelled a long way since I last wrote but not a whole load has happened On our next and last day in Penang we all headed in the heat down to the ferry pier to see if we could book a night train to Kuala Lumpur for the coming evening. It turned out yes we could and it worked out very cheap only 38 ringitts each for a sleeper berth for the 8 hour journey. 6 quid. Katie grabbed a taxi ba</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/blog-264707.html</link>
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                    <title>Phi Phi to Penang</title>
                    <description>On our first night in Phi Phi we found plenty of places showing the football and settled for the classic Irish Pub. Joined by 3 other Newcastle fans I was in heaven as we destroyed spurs 41 so unexpectantly. It was hilarious that I was watching it in Thailand yet people at home weren't A good night would surely follow and it did. We headed to Reggae Bar which has a club upstairs and a Thai boxin</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Penang/George-Town/blog-262706.html</link>
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                    <title>Island Hopping Part 2</title>
                    <description>Since last time I wrote we've had the most awesome time in Koh Tao. Basically we ended up with an awesome gang of people namely Archie Jonno Ash Teagues clone Matt Hanna Lisa Kate Abi and Franky. The days have consisted of sitting floating in the shallow calm sea chatting and naming all the stray dogs with hilarious personalities. Namely Benson a big black dog who is a complete brute and</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Ko-Phi-Phi-Don/blog-261185.html</link>
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                    <title>Island Hopping</title>
                    <description>The night before full moon party was supposed to be a really good one too so we headed down for our 4th night on the beach in a row and had a right good laugh yet again meeting some cool people. Amazingly I got so much love for wearing my newcastle shirt half of them were swedish but it was all good Unfortunately we had a bit of an incident whereas katie had put her bag containing bank cards ca</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Ko-Tao/blog-259518.html</link>
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                    <title>Thailand</title>
                    <description>Its been a while since I've got round to doing this we've been so busy After a really easy flight to Bangkok from Hong Kong watching scrubs and mitchell and webb we grabbed a taxi to the Soi 1 Guesthouse hostel on reccomendation of Joe who we met in Goa. Arriving in the middle of the night it was very lucky that we managed to grab the 3 remaining beds in the hostel. First impressions of Thailan</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Ko-Pha-Ngan/blog-257939.html</link>
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                    <title>Culture and Casinos</title>
                    <description>On Wednesday's all museums and art galleries in Hong Kong are free so we'd designated it as cultural day and headed for the space museum a few minutes walk away from the hostel. It was alright nothing special and got swarmed by little tracksuited school kids while we were trying to take it at a leisurely pace It did make us laugh though as we remembered being that age while they ran around grabb</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Macau/blog-256001.html</link>
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                    <title>Hong Kong Days</title>
                    <description>So starting where I left off  the football did not go well at all much to Rob's delight  I thought it would be awesome to finally catch some Newcastle footy but obviously not. Therefore we had a night of sorrow drowning rob celebrating on the hostel terrace with the english guys matt and pierre who'd come along with us. Some cool Irish guys we'd met in the bar told us that tommorow Sunday th</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Hong-Kong/blog-255023.html</link>
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                    <title>Crazy Journey and Hong Kong</title>
                    <description>Last night in Goa was crazy. After a hard day of me rob and joe scaling the ultimate sea rock and suffering many wounds in the process we decided we had to go out on a good one So it was to be a crawl from one end of the beach to the other picking up recruits along the way We made it to 7 with a couple of recruits hanging along including this wicked guy called chris who was playing a death ca</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Hong-Kong/blog-253939.html</link>
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                    <title>Just another day in Paradise...</title>
                    <description>The first thing you notice when you land in Goa is the humidity. We landed at around 3.304pm and walked out onto the tarmac and instantly felt sticky Possibly one of the most humid places I've been. The airport was tiny and fast and we were out into the madness of taxi drivers within 20 minutes. Haggling hard we still felt we might be paying a bit much for the one and a half hour drive down to S</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Goa/Palolem/blog-252580.html</link>
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                    <title>Bollywood and Big Balloons</title>
                    <description>16 hour bus turned into 19 hour bus in Bombays morning traffic It was pretty painful but at least we were here First impressions of the city were that it was huge construction everywhere huge apartment blocks some relatively swanky and some not around every construction site you were find the slums where all the workers and families would live. That way they would always be on site to work cr</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Maharashtra/Mumbai/blog-251069.html</link>
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