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<title>Travel Blog | LynnieVaughan</title>
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<description>Travel adventures in journals and photos from LynnieVaughan</description>
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                    <title>Tam Coc</title>
                    <description>Tam CocThe day before I went to Tam Doc I hung around in Hanoi.  I visited the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum only to discover that it was closed.  I should have arrived in the morning.  As it turned out there was still plenty to see.  The guards who are everywhere in this area are all dressed in a white dress uniform with white gloves and hat and look very handsome.  They monitor the demarcation zone ar</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Northwest/blog-734000.html</link>
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                    <title>Sapa 2</title>
                    <description>Sapa 2The third day in Sapa and the most awesome place to visit. The landscape is hilly and the land is fertile and rich with plant life with a moderate temperature at this time of the year which is the rainy season.After breakfast with our team of six one of Katerinas girls was sick we left for yet another trek down the steep hill to the Cat Cat village where they colour hemp  using plant ex</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Northwest/Lao-Cai/Sapa/blog-733467.html</link>
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                    <title>Sapa 1</title>
                    <description>SapaThe Intrepid group is no more and we have all gone our separate ways.  It was sad to say goodbye to my American friend Darra this morning as we had had so much fun together and been there for each other over the last two and a half weeks.  She was heading off to Bali and Lombock for another Intrepid trip with lots of sunshine and cultural experiences before flying back to Denver Colorado. She</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Northwest/Lao-Cai/Sapa/blog-733286.html</link>
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                    <title>Hanoi and Halong Bay</title>
                    <description>Ha Noi and Halong BayThe ride from the airport in the bus took us across a modern bridge into the heart of the city and after travelling for an hour we arrived at the Old Quarter where our hotel was situated. The streets here are quite narrow with every shop operating as a street stall other than the hotels that dotted the road side where the millions of motor bikes and mostly taxis zipped up and</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Red-River-Delta/Hanoi/blog-732399.html</link>
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                    <title>Hoi An and Hue</title>
                    <description>Vietnam 2 Hoi AnThe train trip although fairly uneventful was intriguing in that as we finished the journey the attendant came through our cabins asking us to clean them up. We duly did as she asked and had all the rubbish in the bin in no time and about 10 minutes before the train arrived at the Da Nang Train station. On leaving the train we had a 45 minutes bus ride to the town of Hoi An crossi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Thua-Thien-Hu-/Hue/blog-731811.html</link>
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                    <title>Coming home</title>
                    <description>HHi all Just to let you know I will be returning home a week and one day later than I had originally intended as I want to see more of Hanoi while there. Hopefully I will be home to share lots of photos with you eh. LOL.The other hope is that the weather will have improved by the time I get home. LOLBye for nowLynnie</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Thua-Thien-Hu-/Hue/blog-731328.html</link>
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                    <title>Vietnam</title>
                    <description>VietnamWe travelled by fast boat  that had a cabin which was quite confined and a small deck on the back that got regularly splashed by water from the brown muddy looking river.  Half way there it rained and I had to go inside for the last hour and a half of the four hour journey to the Vietnamese border.  Two stops are required one to leave Cambodia and one to enter Vietnam so much time is los</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/blog-730941.html</link>
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                    <title>The Killing Fields</title>
                    <description>Tuol Seng  Genocide Museum  was firstly a secondary school in the capital of Phnom Penh before it became an Education Centre for the torturing and killing of Cambodian people who were caught up in the internal conflicts of their country with this genocide perpetrated by Pol Pot and his leaders. The centre was surrounded by a double wall of corrugated iron and on the top densely rolled barbed wire </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-730252.html</link>
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                    <title>Trip to Phnom Penh</title>
                    <description>Wednesday 11 July 2012 and  an 8.30am start.  I paid the hotel bill for three meals laundry and some water that came to 25.00 can you believe and off we went in the mini bus heading for Phnom Penh.  A trip that was expected to take us all day as we have several stops we would be making along the way.The first stop was to admire the stone carvings made by the local people at the roadside worksho</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-729726.html</link>
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                    <title>Cambodia</title>
                    <description>On Sunday we were up at the crack of dawn to catch the bus and cross the border from Thailand to Cambodia arriving later in the day in Siem Reap at the Freedom Hotel.The minibus trip was uneventful and we travelled through land that was reminiscent of other parts of Thailand with the rural sellers selling a wide range of food on the sides of the highway and the roads in good condition.Before we g</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Siem-Reap/blog-729322.html</link>
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                    <title>The timeshare</title>
                    <description>At 3.30pm was my appointment with the Timeshare people and to this end I wanted to request the sale of my timeshare and implore them  to  help me to sell it.  This duly done with a worst case scenario presented to me if I had to hold on to it I headed back to my room to prepare for the Owners Cocktail evening tonight to be held inside as it was still raining intermittently with an expectation of </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Phuket/blog-728414.html</link>
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                    <title>Karon Beach Resort</title>
                    <description>Life has settled down here at the Resort in Karon Beach Phuket and one day is beginning to resemble another.  Today though is the first cloudy day I have seen since arriving here and therefore a good day to stay inside.So I have exercised for an hour by walking down the road on pathways and the clean sandy beach coming back dripping with perspiration and now need to wait until I am cool enough</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Phuket/blog-728413.html</link>
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                    <title>Phi Phi Island</title>
                    <description>Phi Phi IslandToday is the 25th June and it signifies that I am half way through this current journey to Thailand Vietnam and Cambodia.  There has been no rain here since I arrived on the 18th June with the local workers spending a lot of time watering gardens and shrubbery.  The trip to Phi Phi Island started with a pick up by minivan at the resort by 7.45am.   The harbour is on the other side o</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Ko-Phi-Phi-Don/blog-726101.html</link>
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                    <title>Another day in Phuket</title>
                    <description>Today I set the goal of taking some excess stuff such as my boots juggling balls a skirt hat mosquito net and the like out of my bag and posting back to New Zealand as I have no room in my bag seeing as I packed for every eventuality.After my walk to Kata Beach at back that took just over an hour I showered and breakfasted at the resort ensuring I had a balanced meal and enough to get me thr</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Phuket/blog-726093.html</link>
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                    <title>Part 2</title>
                    <description>Part Two Day 2To start the second part of my journey off I rose early breakfasted with and said goodbye to the group caught the ferry to Surrtthani and bussed to Phuket.The journey in the bus took seven or eight hours.  Much longer than I had expected  We arrived at the depot at 6.45pm after having left the accommodation on Koh Samui  at 8.30 that morning.On board were a couple of Australian gu</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Phuket/blog-724851.html</link>
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                    <title>Final Days of Southern Tour of Thailand</title>
                    <description>Day 20 and 21We arrived on Koh Tao by ferry a speedier boat than the last with very comfortable seating and air conditioning in a boat that would have held maybe 200 people.  The trip was one and a half hours but otherwise quite uneventful.  Our accommodation this time was only 10 minutes from the port so we were ensconced in our rooms by just after midmorning. The day was ours.  I changed into m</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Ko-Samui/blog-724311.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 18 and 19 I think</title>
                    <description>Day 18 and 19It started early.  Tonight about 7.30pm we leave for  Suratthani which is a 12 hour  overnight train ride south from Bangkok.  We will then take a one and half hour bus ride to the Donsak Pier and a ferry trip of two and half hours  to Koh Pa Ngan which will mean yet another trip of about 45 minutes at the island until we get to our secluded beautiful beach and bungalow accommodatio</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Ko-Pha-Ngan/blog-723525.html</link>
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                    <title>Days 1517</title>
                    <description>Chiang Mai is a lovely city to visit as it does not have the tourist hype that you find in places like Bangkok.  There are still the lovely arrays of markets with a wide variety of articles that are handmade or copied from originals.  The food is a little different here but most Thai dishes are available as well as Burger King McDonalds Starbucks and KFC.  On our last night in Chaing Mai Harold</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-722673.html</link>
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                    <title>The trek days 1214</title>
                    <description>Days 12 13 and 14Yes  I am really unsure of the days now but did figure it out that it is Thursday.  The trekking in the bush would make you quite envious Robert.  It took me a while to figure out why it all felt so surreal and gloriously familiar and today I realised it was because of the amazing times I had in my 20s and 30s tramping in the bush and staying out in the wops with few amen</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Rai/blog-722295.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 11</title>
                    <description>Day 11Today I decided to spend a few moments on reflection.  Such as did I make the right choice to come on an Intrepid How does one translate the experiences I am having into a meaningful context for readersI certainly feel that I am actually a real tourist who has had the opportunities presented by the Intrepid people that one would never have had an opportunity to experience otherwise.  The p</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Mae-Salong/blog-722275.html</link>
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