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                    <title>Scifi and wreck diving</title>
                    <description>After a short stay in Bohol I took a plane to Manila from Cebu and then to Coron. This was my last destination in the Philippines and the main thing I wanted to do there was wreck diving. I didn39t know what to expect about the town itself but nevertheless made up my mind to just stay there for the 5 or 6 days before I had to leave the country. Coron is in Busuanga Island part of a group of</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Palawan/Coron/blog-782034.html</link>
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                    <title>Touch and go</title>
                    <description>From Malapascua I decided to head down to Bohol Island just east of Cebu Island. In the place I was staying at Purple Snapper I had met a French woman Stephanie also a dive instructor and she was also going to Bohol so we decided to go together to share costs. She was good company had a lot of stories plus she was an excellent dive buddy to be traveling with. We woke up really early in th</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Bohol/Panglao/blog-782033.html</link>
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                    <title>Paradise beaches</title>
                    <description>This post came a bit late and its about Malapascua. Malapascua was my favorite destination in the Philippines. But just to give continuance to my last post Ill write about the previous days I left off in Makassar Sulawesi Island Indonesia and from there flew to Manila and then went to Malapascua so Ill go off topic in the first paragraphs. From Toraja Sulawesi Island Indonesia I </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Malapascua-Island/blog-782032.html</link>
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                    <title>Diving in the Komodo National Park</title>
                    <description>After having booked for three dives the previous days I woke up early in the morning and headed out to the Divine Diving shop. There I met the two Indonesians who would be our guides that day  Juffens and Hila. The other divers that day were Bruno and Josette a Swiss couple in their midsixties and Nick and Sofie a Dutch couple about my age.The first thing to do was go to an office in the </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Flores/Labuanbajo/blog-778669.html</link>
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                    <title>Beholding the Torajan death rituals</title>
                    <description>I arrived in Makassar at about 8pm without knowing where I was going to spend the night that day but I had the name of a street in which I knew there should be a couple of backpacker places Jampean St.When I left the airport I was harassed by at least 10 taxi drivers. Most of them were charging 100.000 IDR. I got one that charged me 87.500 IDR.Makassar is a big city with about 1.6 million peopl</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sulawesi/Tana-Toraja/blog-778051.html</link>
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                    <title>Across Nusa Tenggara From Lombok to Mount Kelimutu</title>
                    <description>In this post I39ll write about two trips the 4 day boat ride from Lombok to Lubuan Bajo in Flores Island including Komodo Island and then a return car ride from Labuan Bajo to Mt. Kelimutu. I was in Gili Trawangan and I woke up late to get the boat that I had to take in the harbor but I made it just in time. From what I could tell this same trip or very similar can be booked from Lombok</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Komodo/blog-776608.html</link>
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                    <title>Diving and drinking piscolas in Gili </title>
                    <description>From Ubud I had planned to go to Lombok httpen.wikipedia.orgwikiLombok an island just to the east of Bali and so I booked a shuttle bus and boat to get there for 250.000 IDR I booked it with Ketut the woman who ran the hostel I was staying in. It took about 1 hour to get to the small harbour in Sanur get the ticket and then 1 hour ride on the fast boat a ferry takes about 5 hours b</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Lombok/Gilli-Trawangan/blog-775726.html</link>
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                    <title>Crash course in Balinese culture</title>
                    <description>And finally I made it to SE Asia after leaving NZ and a short stopover in the Brisbane airport. I had been in Bali in 2002 3 weeks before the bomb attack in Kuta. I remebered it being sunnier not as dirty and with lots of tourists and topless girls in the beach. It might just have been that I was in Bali during the high season or that I had an idealized vision of the place.This time there were </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/Ubud/blog-774979.html</link>
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                    <title>"Trapped" in New Zeland</title>
                    <description>So after my stay in Queenstown I took a bus to Christchurch so that I could catch my flight to Indonesia the next morning. The bus left in the morning and it was due to arrive at about 530pm. My flight was at 6am so there was no point in getting a hostel for the night instead I decided to wait it out at the airport. I gave a call to Jim Worthington a friend of Rob Hacking with whom I had st</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/Newmarket/blog-773741.html</link>
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                    <title>Island crossing drive from Picton to Dunedin and chillin' in Queenstown</title>
                    <description>I got on the Inter Islander Ferry to cross from Wellington to Picton. My initial plan on the South Island was to go from Picton and travel the west coast and arrive in Queenstown. By bus it would39ve probably taken me a couple of days since there isn39t a straight ride from Picton to Queenstown using Naked Bus I had a 5 ride ticket with that company so it would39ve been a waste of tim</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Dunedin/blog-772091.html</link>
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                    <title>Waitomo Caves  Tongariro National Park and short stopover in Wellington</title>
                    <description>I left Auckland early in the morning and from Ignacio39s house I took a train to Britomart Station. I had spent two more days in Auckland than initially intended and I needed to break the inertia and get going.I got just in time to board the bus that would get me to Waitomo. I bought a bus pass valid for 5 rides from the Naked Bus company. I had to change buses in Hamilton and arrived at ar</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Waitomo-Caves/blog-771053.html</link>
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                    <title>Auckland and diving Poor Knights inTutukaka</title>
                    <description>Auckland was a great start to my New Zealand trip. The flight from Melbourne was OK even though I got about an hour of sleep during the night and arrived at around 530am. Customs went by smoothly and then I took a shuttle bus to my hosts39 house The Hackings. The family is Robert and Penny and their daughters Frances and Alexandra. Robert is a barrister and Penny is an artist who works in th</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/blog-770619.html</link>
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                    <title>Australia day in Melbourne </title>
                    <description>I had a really good time in Melbourne. But I don39t think I did all the things I should39ve done I feel as if I didn39t utilize my time wisely. I think mainly because I used a fair amount of time online trying to figure out my next destinations buying tickets and just sorting out stuff before I left Australia. The other reason is that I arrived in Melbourne without much of a plan and di</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/blog-767736.html</link>
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                    <title>Couchsurfing and roadtrip in Tasmania</title>
                    <description>Tasmania was an excellent destination and totally exceeded my expectations. Even though I stayed for less than I had initially intended and got to see just a little bit of it the stay there was well balanced between sightseeing and socializing. I arrived in Tasmania without much plans at all. When I got off the plane in the small airport I saw a shuttle that could take me to the city. I had seen</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Tasmania/Hobart/blog-770034.html</link>
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                    <title>On our way to dive the SS Yongala we visited a Spanish Castle in Far North Queensland  </title>
                    <description>The Great Green Way. I lived in Port Douglas for the past 8 months and about 2 weeks before leaving it was the first time I heard about it. The Great Green Way is the road between Cairns and Townsville and to my surprise there39s plenty to see in between both cities  Natures playground is the motto used for advertisement. httpwww.greatgreenwaytourism.com. I had tought about d</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Ayr/blog-765647.html</link>
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                    <title>Staying among artists and diving in Sydney</title>
                    <description>After I left Port Douglas I flew to Sydney mainly to do a few dives catch up with friends and get organized to travel for the rest of the year main thing was that I had to loose baggage. I stayed the first days in Sydney with a couple that I met while I was working for Poseidon Reef Charters in Port Douglas Ben and Naomi two professional divers that have been traveling the world the p</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/blog-767186.html</link>
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                    <title>End of an era</title>
                    <description>Where to begin this post now Lets see... from the last post in early December I was on and off at work December was a quieter month than usual although right after XMas it picked up again. It was good to have days off and just chill especially on the hot humid tropical weather of Far North Queensland. The last month I spent in Port Douglas was quiet in terms of going out and it was pretty</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Port-Douglas/blog-763076.html</link>
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                    <title>"My sweet 31" and other events</title>
                    <description>After a few weeks of procrastinating and postponing this post I took the time to write about my latest activities in this small town in Far North Queensland. I have already been working for Poseidon httpwww.poseidoncruises.com.au for about 3 weeks now and so far as expected it39s been a similar job to what I was doing before in Calypso. Most instructors are hired to work in 3 diff</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Port-Douglas/blog-759133.html</link>
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                    <title>Booms and declines</title>
                    <description>A while ago I was asked by my father to write a little bit about the history of Port Douglas. To do this I went to the local museum the old Courthouse I39ve done some research in the internet where I got most of the information from I went to see a play at a local theater related to the contemporary history of this town and I met with Australian diving and videography legend Ben Crop</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Port-Douglas/blog-755776.html</link>
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                    <title>Total Eclipse of the sun</title>
                    <description>November 14th we had the last total eclipse of the sun of this year right here in Port Douglas. The only other time I39ve seen a total solar eclipse was when I was in 7th grade in 1994 in my home town. I actually it saw while I was in the school premises. Port Douglas went nuts with this phenomenon and thousands of people flew to Cairns Palm Cove and Port Douglas to see it. There were sever</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Port-Douglas/blog-755820.html</link>
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