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<title>Travel Blog | Quest for the Golden Carrot</title>
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<description>Travel adventures in journals and photos from Quest for the Golden Carrot</description>
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                    <title>Bangkok  Vol. 2 The End</title>
                    <description>So here it is the final chapter of our amazing often scary and dangerous but always fascinating and interesting journey. I had arrived in Bangkok my final destination.Having extended my ticket I timed my return to England to coincide not with my friends Tim and Nic being in Bangkok as I had them believe but perfectly with the depletion of my bank account. I arrived back in Thailand with o</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-85641.html</link>
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                    <title>Two weeks in Vietnam</title>
                    <description>I must apologise to those of you who have eagerly been anticipating this entry. I have been very busy but here it is at long last so need to worryHo Chi Minh CityVietnam  Motorcycles. There are about 200 motorbikes to every car here. There are no conventional taxis and to get across the city you have no choice but to jump on the back of some stranger's bike and hold on for your life This i</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-83031.html</link>
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                    <title>The Incredible Temples of Angkor</title>
                    <description>I arrived in Cambodia through an unofficial border crossing from Laos set deep into the forest off a long tiny dirt track. Immigration control was a small wooden hut and we were obliged to give a bribe to the officers that manned it to let us through this is standard procedure.Once on the other side we boarded our transport to Siem Reap which I like to call The Rust Bucket. But who am I t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Angkor/blog-78236.html</link>
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                    <title>Last stop on travels</title>
                    <description>KyotoAnyone who has read Memoirs of a Geisha is likely to expect Kyoto to be a quaint little town as we did. In fact Kyoto use to be the Capital of Japan and has a population of over 2.5million. Nevertheless Gion Corner behind the main hubbub of the high street did conjure up exotic images of Geisha running to and from appointments. The word geisha has negative connotations and they are norma</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Kyoto/blog-75678.html</link>
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                    <title>Laos Three towns a field of jars and 4000 islands</title>
                    <description>VientianeNext time you walk into the local branch of your bank take a moment to count how many cash machines there are in it. More than one Congratulations you are in the presence of more ATM's than there are in the whole of Laos.Vientiane the country's capital is the location of this unique money withdrawal machine. The word capital usually conjures up images of skyscrapers parks and a busy</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/blog-74370.html</link>
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                    <title>Mission Accomplished</title>
                    <description>Having such little evidence to go by I suspected that my mission to find the Golden Carrot may prove impossible Considering the sheer number of temples in Japan alone I thought 3 weeks could not possibly be enough time. As we left Chiran then Miyazaki and then my friends left to go to Kyoto and then home time was running out and fast. My family were expecting me home in less than 7 days but </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/blog-74675.html</link>
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                    <title>Thoughts so far Tokyo and Kamakura</title>
                    <description>I spent a week in Tokyo first with my friends and then with my mum who came to take me home. Tokyo has to be one of my favourite places so far probably because it was here after 10 days in Japan that I started finally getting to grips with Japanese culture  I love it As our guide book says you have to be open minded in Japan and do your best not to come with preconceptions  easier said tha</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/blog-74528.html</link>
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                    <title>Miyazaki</title>
                    <description>Another Japanese entry from meSo next stop was still in Kyusu but a different city Miyazaki. We're now at Shiv's place and Natasha and AnnMarie have joined us. We spent our first night at what has to be the best restaurant so far Yawaraku. Really varied food pumpkin and potato pie chicken Nan Ban chicken with tartare sauce and familiar spicy noodles with vegOn Thursday we had a very bus</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/blog-70586.html</link>
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                    <title>A week in pictures Things I have done in Thailand</title>
                    <description>Have spent the last week in Chiang Mai Pai and Bangkok again before heading into Laos. As a picture is worth a thousand words here is a 12000 word essay on my adventures of the past 7 days.Things that happened but weren't captured on filmAt the cookery school we learnt how to cook onions in a way that could burn your house down. By heating the wok to a temperature just shy of the sun's su</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/blog-72698.html</link>
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                    <title>The Thailand Trek</title>
                    <description>From Chiang Mai located in the north of Thailand I undertook a 3day trek into the Thailand jungle. I was picked up early doors from my hostel thrown in the back of a van with 6 others and driven deep into the rainforest. The first day started out quite hot and we hiked uphill for several hours looking forward for a swim at the waterfall. Well the waterfall was impressive but the body of </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-70934.html</link>
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                    <title>Bangkok  Vol.1</title>
                    <description>Another delayed flight brought me into Bangkok at 2 o'clock in the morning and it was 31 degrees outside. What sort of temperature is that for the middle of the nightBangkok is a hot bustling city that is currently in its rainy season so I discovered on the first day when the heavens opened from nowhere and cats and dogs literally fell from the sky.I spent the first day navigating my way rou</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-70072.html</link>
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                    <title>Me Singapore and Jack Jones</title>
                    <description>The start of my solo trip I arrived in Singapore three days ago the first time I'd been in a country where I did not know the name of a single other person in it. Scary stuff.The hostel was in a great location but I was surprised to find my 10bed dorm contained 10 bunk beds all of which were full. Despite this it seems the manager had an aversion to light or at least other people having it</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/blog-68910.html</link>
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                    <title>Chiran Kagoshima</title>
                    <description>Hi allSo I'm in a small town near Kagoshima well relatively near. Japan is brilliant after backpackerland. Instead of looking at me 'as if I have 2 heads' another guy's quotation to sum up how we were sometimes treated the Japanese are really nice courteous and friendly. I was immediately struck by how foreign I looked. Even in South America we passed as Argentinian and didn't stick out too </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/blog-68990.html</link>
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                    <title>Farewell to Ozzy land</title>
                    <description>Our last trip in Australia was to the Great Barrier Reef We visited the Saxon and Hasting Reefs on the outer edge. Unfortunately the coral gets its spectular colour reds oranges blues from the sun and for the last 3 weeks it's been really cloudy here. This is the best time of year to visit the reef normally  Cairns's winter is their dry and therefore peak season but it's been really gloom</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/open-water/blog-67822.html</link>
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                    <title>Cape Tribulation</title>
                    <description>So I didn't finish telling what happened at Magnetic Island The place has an abundance of Eucalyptus trees and those who have been paying attention to the story knows that it was a stray leaf from this tree found in New Zealand that led us to Oz in the first place.Nearing the end of our trip Down Under and still no nearer to finding the famous Golden Carrot we were getting nervous but some </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cape-Tribulation/blog-67382.html</link>
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                    <title>Aboard the Apollo</title>
                    <description>Hi allJust got back from the Whitsundays an amazing group of islands off Australia's east coast. We boarded the Apollo which is a Maxi boat and it's the only place in the world you can actually sail on racing yachts. This time the group was loads better and we had a great time even though the weather wasn't great. Yes it does get cloudy here and we've heard the U.K. is having glorious weathe</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Whitsundays/blog-65734.html</link>
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                    <title>Sand sand and more sand</title>
                    <description>Fraser Island is a huge sand dune of an island just off the East coast. We chose to see the island in a selfdriving group which meant that we were squashed into the van with 9 others given an itinerary of things to see and also a list of prohibited actions that if done would result in the loss of our bond and told to go have fun.Despite having a briefing the night before on Monday we woke up</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Fraser-Island/blog-65073.html</link>
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                    <title>Ash's Place</title>
                    <description>Ash my mate from home kindly invited us to stay at his sister's house while she was on holiday Thanks Laura.Taking a welcoming break from the stress of backpacking we relaxed for a few days spending one afternoon trekking through the forest that is Ash's back garden as he excitedly looked for snakes. He once heard some thumping about and saw a kangaroo. Fortunately the only thing we did </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Noosa-Heads/blog-63644.html</link>
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                    <title>Hey hey we're in Byron Bay</title>
                    <description>We rode out of Sydney on the overnight Greyhound bus arriving in Byron Bay all blearyeyed the next morning. It's a pretty cool seaside town but 95 of the population are backpackers and the majority of those are from England The beaches are beautiful covered in smooth white sands and were even better than FijiWe'd chosen our hostel because they offered a free introduction to Scubadiving i</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Byron-Bay/blog-62625.html</link>
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                    <title>Three days in the Salt flats</title>
                    <description>Day 1 HighlightsLeft Uyuni the nearest town to the Salar in our fleet of jeeps and made our way to the salt factory and met the owner and his 8yearold daughter who worked all day filling up salt bags. For this she would earn the equivalent of a pound.Next we headed to the Salt Flats. They are dazzling Pure white ground as far as the eye can see it's hard to open your eyes without sunglass</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Potosi-Department/Salar-de-Uyuni/blog-44506.html</link>
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