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                    <title>Seti River Rafting</title>
                    <description>Part of our trip included three days white water rafting on the Seti River. The seti river is about a two or three hour bus ride from Pokhara. Arriving at the starting point our group joined with a dutch couple and another dutch girl who was travelling by herself. We spilt into two groups. One raft had most of the boys and the other all the girls. The first day was quite short and uneventful. That</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-540094.html</link>
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                    <title>Chitwan National Park</title>
                    <description>Heading towards the last few days of our trip now and we were counting down the days until the trip home. Four months of travelling is a bit too much when you only stay in a place one or two nights. Anyway Chitwan National Park is about a four hour drive from Pokhara provided there are no accidents or landslides. Chitwan is the place to go if you want to see Rhinoceros or crocodiles. The first d</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Chitwan/blog-540413.html</link>
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                    <title>Seam Reap</title>
                    <description>From Lumt hospital we headed back to Kuala Lumpur stayed one night in a run down hostel then caught the train to the airport. You can check in at the station so it was quite an easy and modern process. After a short flight we arrived in Seam Reap paid the obligatory visa fees and got stamped into yet another country.We stayed at Earthwalkers guest house. It has a swimming pool in the shape of </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Siem-Reap/blog-527303.html</link>
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                    <title>Bangkok</title>
                    <description>Back in Bangkok again. We booked a sports hotel through Asia rooms. It had a full size swimming pool tv fridge desk etc all for 14 pounds a night. About a half an hours taxi ride from the tourist ripoff chaos that is Khao San Road.I have a different impression of Bangkok than last time. I'm not sure if it is because Bangkok has changed maybe due to less tourists at the moment or if we've jus</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-527292.html</link>
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                    <title>Lumut Hospital</title>
                    <description>Well this wasn't on my planned iteneray but was interesting in it's own way nonetheless. After deciding I should go and see a doctor after dinner one evening we found that no where was open apart from the state run A  E clinic. A taxi ride there a quick examination by the doctor and he said he would send me to the hospital on the mainland straight away. They have better equipment xray machine</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/blog-526065.html</link>
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                    <title>Pangkor</title>
                    <description>We decided to go to Pangkor from the Cameron highlands. It was one of the easiest islands to get to and was recommended in our 'Budget Guide to Asia' as a highlight. We'd booked accommodation in advance through email at a place recommended in the guide book so at least we knew we'd have somewhere to sleep if all the accommodation was booked up. However when we arrived we soon realised that we nee</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/blog-526064.html</link>
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                    <title>Cameron Highlands</title>
                    <description>People visit the Cameron Highlands for a number of reasons. It's a lot cooler there than lower down in KL and makes a refreshing change. There are also tea plantations to wander around and rain forests to trek through. A number of other activities also seem to have sprung up for the tourists like strawberry and butterfly farms. Our accommodation the Cameronian Inn had a guided walk leaving from </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/blog-526063.html</link>
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                    <title>Kuala Lumpur</title>
                    <description>Well we decided that we had had enough of Vietnam and decided to have a change and go to Malaysia. The first stop for two nights was Kuala Lumpur. We rather unwisely booked a hostel from the guide book which described the rooms as airless and that you need to wear ear plugs at night due to the night club down stairs. And indeed both of those descriptions turned out to be true However for 2 nights</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Wilayah-Persekutuan/Kuala-Lumpur/China-Town/blog-526062.html</link>
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                    <title>Ho Chi Minh City</title>
                    <description>On arrival in Ho Chi Minh we decided to risk it and take a taxi from the airport to our hotel. The guide books say they can try and double the price if you are not careful. We made sure the meter was running before we set off just in case. When we got the the hotel we paid him the fair and then he started going on that he wanted more money. I paid him the fare plus the parking ticket at the airpor</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/District-1/blog-521235.html</link>
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                    <title>Hoi An</title>
                    <description>I liked Hoi An better the second time around. You could swim in the sea this time as the waves were a lot smaller and we stayed nearer the old town. The old town makes for some atmospheric walks especially in the evening with little lanterns floating down the river.On the first day we hired some bikes and spent the first day on the beach. We virtually had the whole place to ourselves. At most the</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/South-Central-Coast/Quang-Nam/Hoi-An/blog-521233.html</link>
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                    <title>Ninh Binh</title>
                    <description>A two hour train ride from Hanoi on little plastic seats in the corridor of the sleeper train took us to Ninh Binh. We had lots of strange looks from people wandering why whities had to have the cheap seats. For a 2 hour train ride however it was fine and we got to chat to some local Vietnamese.The guide books say the town of Ninh Binh is nothing special and they are right Not the sort of place t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Red-River-Delta/Ninh-Binh/blog-521232.html</link>
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                    <title>Ha Long Bay</title>
                    <description>Another trip with the Kangaroo cafe. We booked the Sa Pa trip and Ha Long Bay at the same time. The boat wasn't the cafe's own boat as advertised but hired from a third company. However the boat was nice although more a two or three star boat than a 5 star boat as the company's literature would suggest. Most of the other boats on the harbor looked just as good if not better. And the feasts describ</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Northeast/Quang-Ninh/Halong-Bay/blog-517238.html</link>
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                    <title>Sa Pa</title>
                    <description>After a short one and a half hour flight from Hong Kong we safely arrived in Hanoi. I think we were lucky to leave when we did as James said that the first monsoon of the season is due to strike Hong Kong on Friday. That could have been another interesting experience. However our trip is not over yet so we may yet add it to our listWe crammened ourselfs in a vietnam airlines mini buss from the ai</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Northwest/Lao-Cai/Sapa/blog-516616.html</link>
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                    <title>Hong Kong  Peak Stanley Big Buddha</title>
                    <description>Back in Hong Kong again after a hectic three week trip of China. The trip ended in a very small hotel Good Rich in Jordan Street in Kowloon. Surrounded by various 'massage parlours' our 'love hotel' was in an interesting location although it is a good location to explore the night markets that flourish around the back streets in that area.The day after the trip finished we moved to a cheaper ho</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Hong-Kong/Hong-Kong-Island/blog-515186.html</link>
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                    <title>Longji Rice Terraces</title>
                    <description>After another overnight train ride from Guilin we took a local bus followed by another local 'chicken bus' so named as you are likely to be traveling with the aforementioned birds. We then had an hour trek up the rice terraces to our overnight accommodation and arrived late in the day. The next day we headed off on our days trek to Ping An. It looked like rain when we set off but the weather wa</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guangxi/Longji-Rice-Terraces/blog-515447.html</link>
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                    <title>yangshuo</title>
                    <description>After an overnight train trip from Shanghai to Guilin we took a local bus ride to Yangshuo. It can be best described as Ha Long bay on land. The rock formations that rise out of the landscape are very impressive and make a very picturesque back drop. The town of Yangshuo itself is very touristy with the usual Chinese McDonalds and KFC but a pleasant place despite it. If you want to go shopping h</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guangxi/Yangshuo/blog-515443.html</link>
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                    <title>Shanghai</title>
                    <description>We chatted to some Shanghainese on the overnight train trip from Xian to Shanghai. They seemed horrified that people ate dog and scorpions in Xian. A KFC family buket seems to be the train food of choice for the locals whilst we persisted with 'local food' of pot noodles and various rice and tofu snacks. After the overnight train trip we arrived in Shanghai and boarded a local bus strait to Xitang</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Shanghai/blog-515193.html</link>
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                    <title>Beijing  9 Dragons Hostel and around</title>
                    <description>Safely arrived in Beijing after a two day flight. We stayed in the 9 dragons hostel a few stops away from Tienanmen square and other popular attractions. To our surprise we have found that we are minor celebrities in China thanks I'm hoping to the colour of our skins. We've had people taking sneaky pictures of us as we walk past and several coming to sit in the middle of us when we've been sitti</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/Tian-anmen/blog-510015.html</link>
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                    <title>Xi'an and the terracotas</title>
                    <description>We're about to leave Xian this evening for Shanghai having been in Xi'an for a couple of days.The main tourist attraction here is the terracotta warriors. It took an estimate 700000 people to build the mausoleum and terracotta army. The amount of work and detail alone is impressive. Gold and bronze half size chariots full size infantry unit and even bronze birds. If you are a dog lover then i</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Shaanxi/Xi-an/blog-510615.html</link>
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                    <title>The wall</title>
                    <description>We took the road less traveled for the trek along the great wall. We traveled from Guibiekou to Jin Shan Ling. A 13km undulating walk in hot and humid weather. We thought the pace was a little too slow at first maybe designed for the fat American tourists that they must see so many of  and increasingly fat English tourists. However it turned out to be a good idea as one guy in our group pegged o</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/The-Great-Wall/blog-510738.html</link>
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