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                    <title>Silk Road and Samarkand</title>
                    <description>May 20 2012Hotel Caravan Seraile Samarkand Uzbekistan 45doubleWe had an early start today as it was going to be another long day on the road and a border crossing on the way to Samarkand. We caught a taxi right outside the hotel and told him we were going to the nothern bus station. When we got there and said we were going to the border he offers to take us all the way for a reasonable amo</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Uzbekistan/Samarkand/Samarqand/blog-765430.html</link>
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                    <title>Istararavshan</title>
                    <description>May 19 2012Hotel Hotel Sugd Khujand Tajikistan 75.50dblAfter the long day on the road yesterday it was nice to again have two nights in a place. There aren39t a huge number of sights to see in Khujand itself. We started with an early breakfast at the hotel it was decent enough with eggs bread cheese and watery dumplings. We caught a marshrutka shared taxi minibus to the Panjshanbe B</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Tajikistan/Khojand/blog-765429.html</link>
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                    <title>Transiting to Tajikistan</title>
                    <description>May 18 2012Hotel Sugd Hotel Khujand Tajikistan 360 tjsdoubleToday was going to be another long day on the road as we were planning on going to Khujand in Tajikistan. There are two ways to get there. One involves a transit of Uzbekistan through the flat Fergana valley the involves going through the mountains of Kyrgyzstan which only involves a single border crossing. The problem with the 2nd</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Tajikistan/Khojand/blog-765427.html</link>
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                    <title>The road to Osh</title>
                    <description>May 16 2012Hotel CBT Guesthouse Osh Kyrgyzstan 15.95ppToday was going to be a long day on the road... the driver said that it was going to take at least 8 hrs driving to get to Osh. We set off after breakfast right at 9AM and started heading west through the valley towards the AkBel pass. The road gradually climed up through glacial landscapes as the snow kept gettting closer and closer to</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Kyrgyzstan/blog-753245.html</link>
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                    <title>Kyrgyz cowboys</title>
                    <description>May 15 2012Hotel Tourist camp Suusamyr Valley Kyrgyzstan 21.27ppWe had a good breakfast at the guesthouse this morning fresh homemade preserves bread tea omlette dried fruit yogurt and pastry filled with dulce de leche.. yum.  After breakfast we ran into a snafu.  I had been corresponding with the owner of the guesthouse via email and had arranged transportation to Osh with a stop ov</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Kyrgyzstan/blog-753244.html</link>
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                    <title>Bishkek</title>
                    <description>May 14 2012Hotel Radison house Bishkek Kyrgyzstan 50doubleToday was already our last day in Kazakhstan it was time to move onto Bishkek Kyrgyzstan. We wanted to get an early start to Bishkek as we would only be spending one afternoon there. Originally we planned to spend a day in Bishkek then a day or two going to IssykKul lake. That involved some backtracking though and we also added </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Kyrgyzstan/Bishkek/blog-753243.html</link>
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                    <title>Travel make benefit glorious nation Kazakhstan</title>
                    <description>May 1112 2012Flight Austin AUS to Houston IAH United Airlines 737 econFlight Houston IAH to London LHR United Airlines 777 econFlight London LHR to Almaty Kazakhstan ALA British Midland A319 econHotel Holiday Inn Almaty 5k60ntSo finally the day of departure arrives and our plans are in disarray. Being busy with work and last minute preparations I hadn39t had a chanc</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Kazakhstan/East-Kazakhstan/Almaty/blog-753241.html</link>
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                    <title>Pendjari Park</title>
                    <description>May 14 2010Hotel Hotel de la Pendjari BeninToday was the start of our twoday safari to Pendjari Park on the border of Benin and Burkina Faso. It is one of the best organized parks in West Africa well maintained and has a list of accredited guides. We left the hotel around 6AM for the 2hr drive to the park entrance. There are several guesthouses near the entrance to the park but the only ho</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Benin/North/blog-503672.html</link>
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                    <title>North to Nati</title>
                    <description>May 13 2010Hotel Hotel Bourgogne Natitingou Beninhttpwww.natitingou.orgbourgogneA LONG day of travel planned today covering over 400 kms north to Natitingou Nati. We went back to the maquis where we had dinner the book had mentioned that a Belgian tourist had taught the chef how to make crepes. They were delicious with homemade mango jam yummyOur guide Marc picked us up on the moto</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Benin/North/Natitingou/blog-503670.html</link>
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                    <title>That Voodoo that you do</title>
                    <description>May 12 2010Hotel Chez Monique Abomey BeninWe woke up this morning around 530 to get to the bus station hoping to catch an actual bus for the 3hr ride north to Abomey. One thing we had noticed in Benin was the proliferation of motorcycle taxis known as zemidjans or zems for short. The drivers all wear yellow or purple shirts and the cost is pretty cheap. It was so early though still dar</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Benin/South/Abomey/blog-503668.html</link>
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                    <title>Fetishes and Ouidah</title>
                    <description>May 11 2010Hotel Hotel Chant d'Oiseau Cotonou BeninToday we were going to do some sightseeing around Lome before heading over to Benin.. Togo is kind of low on sights to see. We walked down to the beach which seemed quite nice with palm trees and lots of sand but not good for swimming due to strong currents and the fact that it's used as a public toilet. We could definitely tell the differen</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Benin/blog-502969.html</link>
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                    <title>Hide and seek embassies</title>
                    <description>May 10 2010Hotel Auberge Le Galion Lome Togo 8000 XOFhttpwww.hotelgalion.comI woke up about 4AM to the sounds of rain.. this is the rainy season in West Africa and I had been worried how that would affect our travel plans. Luckily it stopped soon and we had our breakfast of toasted Wonderbread and tea.Our plans today were to get our Benin visa then possibly a little sightseeing in Accra</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Togo/Lome/blog-502967.html</link>
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                    <title>Off to Accra</title>
                    <description>Just finished a threeweek overland trip through West Africa with my travel buddies Accra to Abidjan overland via Timbuktu. We'd been planning this trip now for several years before finally getting our schedules synced. We would start out in Accra head east via Lome to Cotonou then up north through Benin to Pendjari Park before transiting Burkina Faso to Mali. After visiting Mopti the Dogon Co</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Ghana/Greater-Accra/Accra/blog-502966.html</link>
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                    <title>Kalmar and Oland island</title>
                    <description>.May 28 2008Hotel Hotel Svanen 680SEK 115Today Dean and I planned to pick up our rental car and go out to land Island.  land is a long island just offshore of Kalmar in southeast Sweden.  The southern portion of the island has been denoted a UNESCO World Heritage site for its wildflower meadows and Stone Age sites.  It's a very popular place with vacationing Swedes during the summer.  Th</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Kalmar-County/Kalmar/blog-284752.html</link>
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                    <title>Victory Day in Minsk</title>
                    <description>May 8 2009Flight Kaliningrad KGD to Riga RIX Air Baltic F50 economyFlight Riga RIX to Minsk MSQ Air Baltic F50 economyHotel Hotel Yubileiny Minsk 67I boarded the airBaltic Fokker 50 flight to Riga the flight was about an hour and otherwise uneventful. By the time the flight arrived in Riga I was starving and hoped I could find a restaurant. However the next flight to Minsk l</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Belarus/Minsk-Voblast/Minsk/blog-398146.html</link>
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                    <title>Kaliningrad</title>
                    <description>May 8 2009Bus Eurolines Riga Latvia  Kaliningrad RussiaThe bus to Kaliningrad left Riga last night at 10PM.. arriving at 7AM in Kaliningrad city.  The bus only stopped twice once about 0045 at iauliai in Lithuania then again at 315 at the RussianLithuanian border at Sovetsk.  First we were stamped out of Lithuania stayed on the bus then drove across the bridge to the Russian side w</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Northwest/Kaliningrad/blog-398145.html</link>
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                    <title>Restless in Riga</title>
                    <description>May 7 2009Bus Eurolines Tallinn Estonia  Riga LatviaThis was my last morning in Tallinn.  Today I checked the online blog I've been following this guy httpwww.leeabbamonte.com is trying to be the youngest person to visit all 300 Traveler's Century Club 'countries'.  I noticed that his last post was from Riga where I was headed  I sent him a note then headed off to the bus station. </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Latvia/Riga-Region/Riga/blog-398160.html</link>
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                    <title>Tallinn</title>
                    <description>May 5 2009Ferry Viking Line Helsinki  TallinnHotel Old House Hostel Tallinn Estonia 5.44Today I was planning on heading over to Tallinn in Estonia via ferry.  After breakfast I caught the metro and tram with 2 minutes remaining on my 24hr transit pass to the Viking terminal.  Several ferries make the short crossing over to Estonia every day they are very popular for the locals as the </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Estonia/Tallinn/blog-398144.html</link>
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                    <title>Helsinki</title>
                    <description>May 4 2009Hotel Holiday Inn City West Helsinki Finland Points StayI was finally able to get in touch with my friend today and we arranged to meet for dinner this evening.  I also was able to arrange with American Express to get 500 emergency travel cash wired to me I could pick this up at the forex bureau in the train station.  This plus what was left of the 300 was all I would have to last</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Finland/Uusimaa/Helsinki/blog-398143.html</link>
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                    <title>Pickpocked in St. Petersburg</title>
                    <description>I recently took advantage of the airfare wars to Russia both United Airlines and American Airlines recently started service to Moscow at one point the airfares were under 400 even from Austin.   The fares were the same to St. Petersburg as well.  I had been to Moscow before but not St. Pete.  I decided to make a 10day trip of it also visiting Helsinki Tallinn Kaliningrad and then flying ho</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Northwest/Saint-Petersburg/blog-398142.html</link>
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