Just returned from a fantastic trip to Abu Dhabi & Oman! This was a wonderful itinerary which was put together in conjunction with Explore Holidays & Abu Dhabi Tourism. I was the Etihad Airways escort for a group of Travel Agents on a trade mission to expericence what the region has to offer to the Australian travel market. Day 1 - Departing Brisbane Our Group flew from Brisbane to Abu Dhabi arriving at about midnight, so our group headed straight the Millennium Hotel, Abu Dhabi for a good night sleep before the adventures began!. Day 2 - Abu Dhabi - UAE [View Full Entry]

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Luang Prabang - [View Full Entry]

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Vientienne, Laos - Sunsets, Beer Lao and That Luang! [View Full Entry]

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Our return to Cambodia! [View Full Entry]

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Yangshuo is a great little town with loads of restaurants, cafes and shops surrounded by stunning karst landscape, it is adorable. We enjoyed the slow pave of life here and spent our first day wandering around the shops and having dinner at one of the many restaurants in the main street of Yangshuo. The next day we headed off for a Cycling tour of Yangshuo and hired a guide to take our group out to Half Moon Hill, through the local villages and rice paddies, with the karst landscape all around us it was just incredible. We were all exhausted from [View Full Entry]

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We were finally on our way to do the long awaited hike up & along Tiger Leaping Gorge. Our bus took us from Lijiang 1 hr & half to the Gorge, which is said to be one of the deepest gorges in the world. It is 16km long and 3900m high. It was hard work but we both thoroughly enjoyed this hike. Once you get past the 28 bends, all the hard work is over. It is like walking across the roof of the world. At every turn you have to stop and take a breath and take in the shear [View Full Entry]

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We went to watch the Naxi Orchestra perform at the Naxi Music Academy. It was beautiful, but most surprisingly was hilarious! The members of the orchestra were 70 yrs + and kept dropping off to sleep randomly to our group's amusement. [View Full Entry]

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We arrived into Lijiang's new town at the end of our long public bus ride and our Gap escort had arranged for some local porters to come and collect our bags so we could walk 30 minutes into the Old Town to where we were staying. Immediately we fell in live with this old town, with the small laneway's and cobbled stones and beautiful Chinese architecture. We checked into our Guest House which was smack bang in the middle of the old town and was a lovely little guest house just off the Market Square. Lijiang Old Town is a mixture [View Full Entry]

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Just outside of Dali, is one of many Bai villages - Xizhou where we drove out to see the local Bai minority tribes trading and buying their daily supplies from the Market and to see the small laneways and preserved architecture in the old village. We had an incredible time here watching the local men & women carry their baskets and barter for their fruit & vegies. [View Full Entry]

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Woke up early to catch Bus 63 from opposite the Camelia Hotel to Central Bus station on Beijing Lu. Hitting the road for our 5 hour bus ride to Dali, we were excited to get out of town and see some of the countryside along this route. Took about an hour to get out of the city and into the countryside. It was amazingly lush and green and was dotted with little villages and rice paddies. Each village seemed to have different symbols or paintings on their traditional homes which was fascinating to see, it was hard to stop looking out [View Full Entry]

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