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                    <title>Xi'an and the Terracotta warriors</title>
                    <description>I appologize for the length of time between posts. It makes me sad to think back on my travels since I am not traveling right now. I am sure that is obvious that I am not still in China. Although I did stay a year in Australia I shudder to think of the cost for a year visa in China for Americans. Right now I am in Austin Texas working to finance more travel. The boring day to day drugery of work</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Shaanxi/Xi-an/blog-767945.html</link>
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                    <title>Chengdu Pandas and Bureaucracy</title>
                    <description>The first day of my arrival in China I was a bit sleep deprived. I took an overnight flight from Chiang Mai. It actually only takes a few hours to fly to Chengdu. But the cheapest flight I could find involved having a 8 hour lay over in the Kunning airport. I flew out of Chiang Mai at 730pm and arrived in Kunning at 10pm. I went through customs and claimed my bag and then searched for a place in </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Sichuan/Chengdu/blog-738822.html</link>
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                    <title>Chiang Mai and a Landslide</title>
                    <description>I left Luang Prabang for Chiang Mai at 6pm after my cooking class. The bus was only supposed to take 20 hours which was an improvement from my 30 hr Hanoi bus trip. When I got on the bus I was not impressed as it was more a minibus than the nice sleeping bus I had my Hanoi trip on. But I did have a whole bench to myself which allowed me to sleep with my legs twisted up against the window. This bus</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/Doi-Suthep/blog-737914.html</link>
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                    <title>Lovely Laos and its Stuffed Lemongrass</title>
                    <description>My entry to Laos started with an overnight bus from Hanoi. I booked the bus through my hostel which is the easiest thing to do because they pick you up right from the hostel. My pickup arrived on a motorbike. He had to carry my backpack which weighs 20kg on his lap so I could sit in the back and be whizzed through traffic. He left me at another hostel and told me to wait. I waited there for abou</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/West/Luang-Prabang/blog-736165.html</link>
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                    <title>North Vietnam Hanoi and Halong Bay</title>
                    <description>I flew from Saigon to Hanoi on July 12th. I originally wanted to take the train but it takes 48 hours and costs 120 for a sleeper berth.  It turned out to be about 50 cheaper to fly.  Although I ended up paying another 15 for the hostel to pick me up.  I could have gotten there cheaper by taking the airport shuttle but I am feeling lazy at this point in my trip and feel it is worth the money </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Red-River-Delta/Hanoi/blog-734441.html</link>
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                    <title>Vietnam from the Mekong Delta to Ho Chi Minh City</title>
                    <description>This entry on trip from Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City is mostly bleak. I think that is reflected in the pictures. There aren39t any really pretty things to see here but they are interesting. This trip starts in Cambodia where a mini bus picked me up at my hostel for the beginning of my trip down the Mekong Delta to Saigon a name used interchangeable with Ho Chi Minh City by pretty much every</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Northeast/Quang-Ninh/Halong-Bay/blog-731724.html</link>
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                    <title>Democratic Kampuchea Phnom Penh and the Khmer Rouge Legacy</title>
                    <description>From Siem Reap I took a 7 hour bus ride to Phnom Penh. It cost 10 and they dropped me off at a bus station. I had arranged for my hostel to pick me up so I didn39t have to find the place myself. They did that for free and that is just one thing to love about accomadation in South East Asia. It seems like they all compete to offer extras to travellers. The national museum and the royal palace m</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-731350.html</link>
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                    <title>Angkor Wat and the Ancient Cambodians</title>
                    <description>From Bangkok I was going to take the train up to Chang Mai and then though Laos and Vietnam and then end in Cambodia and fly to China but then I realized that Siem Reap is very close to Bangkok. If you were able to drive straight through it would only take about 5 and a half hours to drive. So I booked a bus ticket to go there from my hostel. Apparently many people travel this path from Bangkok t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Angkor/blog-727710.html</link>
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                    <title>Kanchanaburi Tigers Elephants and Bridges</title>
                    <description>I woke up at 615am. I really hate getting up early and I count it as one of the best parts of my traveling days that I don39t have to get out of bed until I want to. Though in the effort of living life to the fullest I try to average a 9am wake up call. So 615 am is quite early for me. At 630 a hostel employee knocked on the door and told me that they are waiting for me downstairs. I was alm</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Western-Thailand/Kanchanaburi/Thong-Pha-Phum/blog-727012.html</link>
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                    <title>The Vibrant the Delicious the Frustrating Bangkok</title>
                    <description>Bangkok is considered by many to be the backpacker ghetto of the world. Its cheap its interesting and there no matter how bizarre your tastes are someone is selling it. Who wouldn39t want that  I took the overnight train from Kuala Lumpur.  It left KL Sentral at 10pm and arrived in Georgetown at 8am and then I waited at the station until 3pm and got on another overnight train that arrived in</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-724275.html</link>
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                    <title>Kuala Lumpur an Amazing Suprise</title>
                    <description>Whenever I arrive in a new part of Asia I keep waiting for it to assault my westernized senses with dirt and poverty. Malaysia being a predominately Muslim country I was also expecting to not see another female except for eyes peaking out from holes in a black sheet. Kuala Lumpur was a nice surprise. I have to say other than a confusing lack of pedestrian crossings this city is quite nice. It is </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Wilayah-Persekutuan/Kuala-Lumpur/China-Town/blog-723150.html</link>
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                    <title>Singapore the Shopping Capital of the World</title>
                    <description>This week brings me to the begining of my South East Asia trip. I have left Australia behind. I spent so much time there I am a bit home sick for it. I really miss Tim Tams.Singapore is another stop on the British Imperialst tour. Every time I think of how much arrogance it requred for Europeans to just show up in a place that seemed like it would be usefull to business and just claim it as their </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/Little-India/blog-722113.html</link>
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                    <title>Adelaide and the Pandas of the Southern Hemisphere</title>
                    <description>I remember the first time I traveled internationally without anyone to help me I took my little brother to London for a 10 day vacation.  London being in a friendly English speaking country and therefore a low stress destination.  I did meticulous research for that trip.  I read a travel guide bought a city map and I even looked up the layouts for the Heathrow airport so I could find the public </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Adelaide/blog-717720.html</link>
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                    <title>Darwin Jumping Crocodiles and the Spledour of Kakadu National Park</title>
                    <description>April 1724I took the Ghan from Alice Springs on April 16th and arrived in Darwin on the 17th. The overriding memory that I have of Darwin is the oppressive humidity coupled with the heat. The week that I was there the temperature was 35 degrees Celsius with 90 humidity. I can still feel the sweat dripping down my face. Ick. Darwin itself is a port town and distinguished itself as being the recip</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Kakadu-National-Park/blog-716310.html</link>
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                    <title>The Red Center Uluru King's Canyon and Alice Springs</title>
                    <description>The journey here continues through Australia from Adelaide to Alice Springs on The Ghan. The Ghan is a cross country train that travels straight up through the center of the continent. It only makes a few select stops mostly because there isn39t much between Adelaide and Darwin. It takes two days to get to Alice Springs on the train and then another two days to get to Darwin from Alice Springs</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-713659.html</link>
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                    <title>Airlie Beach and the Great Barrier Reef</title>
                    <description>Under the sea Under the sea Darling it39s better Down where it39s wetter Take it from me Up on the shore they work all day Out in the sun they slave away While we devotin39 Full time to floatin39Under the seaThe Little MermaidThe Great Barrier Reef attracted me the most of all the attractive things in Australia. Its a massive expanse of living creatures that frolic beneath the sea. </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Airlie-Beach/blog-711810.html</link>
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                    <title>New Zealand's South Island</title>
                    <description>Hi EveryoneI apologize for how much I have procrastinated blogging about the remainder of my New Zealand trip.  I have put it off so long that I have done lots of other interesting things and they are more pressing on my mind.  I really want to write about snorkeling on the great barrier reef which I did last week or riding on The Ghan which I am doing right now.  But that would not be Chronolo</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Milford-Sound/blog-697524.html</link>
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                    <title>New Zealand's North Island history scenery and fun facts</title>
                    <description>New Zealand has been a wonderful journey. You can tell this country was colonized less than two hundred years ago. The relationship the New Zealanders have with the native culture is very different from anywhere else I have been. Maybe because they had more experience with taking over the locals or because the Maori were cannibalistic and cooked a few unsavory European interlopers but Europeans d</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/Lower-Hutt/blog-692161.html</link>
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                    <title>First days in Fantasy land Coromandel and Waitomo</title>
                    <description>The first day I left on my 39Kiwi Experience39 I woke up at 7am in order to be ready to catch the bus at 820.  As if I needed a reminder that traveling in a group can be tedious by the time we had collected everyone and they had gotten their tickets sorted out we didn39t leave Auckland till 1000am.  But in the spirit of fairness the first place we stopped in the Coromandel peninsula is </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Coromandel/Hahei/blog-687840.html</link>
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                    <title>Gateway to Fantasy Land Auckland New Zealand</title>
                    <description>Hi EveryoneOn February 8th I left Brisbane and flew to Christchurch and then to Auckland. I had paid to check up to 15 kg of luggage so I spent quite a bit of time trying to get my backpack to weigh less than 15 kg. Eventually I put some things in storage in Brisbane since I am flying back there in March and I put everything heavy into my day bag to use as a carry on. It is a bit distressing to</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/blog-686720.html</link>
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