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                    <title>Back down the Nile to Thebes and Cairo</title>
                    <description>Woke up in Aswan to a beautiful warm day perfect for a slow sail down the Nile to Luxor aka Thebes. The Felucca was quite a bit larger than I had imagined room enough for 13 passengers on the covered deck and a crew of three below. Since it was a cross wind we had to tack back and forth not making much headway. Not really a problem since we weren39t in a rush. That evening we moored on the s</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-684804.html</link>
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                    <title>Cairo to Abu Simbel</title>
                    <description>We started the trip south with a trip to Giza and the pyramids. It really surprised us to find that the pyramids are in a suburb of Cairo. Out of the bus and on to a camel. Lumbering over the sand dunes towards the Great Pyramid. What a sight to behold. the Sphinx was as enigmatic as anything we39ve come across. After the pyramids we went to the Cairo museum. A gigantic storehouse of Egyptian a</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Upper-Egypt/Thebes/blog-684252.html</link>
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                    <title> Off to see Big Ben the Acropolis and the Pyramids.</title>
                    <description>Sorry for the delay but the interent is not a accessible as I would have thought. Well better late than never. I39ll try and keep the entries as brief as possible so as not to bore the pants off anyone. As always if you do not want to get update for the blog just remove your name from the list I won39t be offended.The flight to London went off without a hitch. Since it was a one day layove</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Giza/Mohandessin/blog-682621.html</link>
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                    <title>Istanbul  Before and After</title>
                    <description>Our first stop was Istanbul it was also our last. So we thought that we'd put them both together.We were on a real high when we first got to Turkey all pumped up and raring to go. Istanbul is full of history everywhere you turn there it is. Even the little variety stores are in buildings that are over a hundred years old. We got up the first morning and went to the Hagia Sophia a museum that </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Marmara/Istanbul/blog-479202.html</link>
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                    <title>The Grandeur of Angkor Wat.</title>
                    <description>Angkor Wat is the largest temple complex in the world and a UNESCO Heritage site. It truley is massive. You could spend days walking around it but we only had one day left so we decided to do some of it by hot air balloon.The Angkor Wat temple is the most famous and gives it's name to the entire complex of over 100 temples built over 400 years between 800 and 1200 AD. So there was no way to see al</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Angkor/blog-478922.html</link>
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                    <title>Deltas Islands and Fields</title>
                    <description>We spent our last day on the Mekong Delta in Can Tho. What a pleasant surprise. We'd never heard of it and therefor we had no preconceptions of what it would be like. It was a very pretty city especially since it was all decked out for Tet. The people were friendly the beer cold and the snake tender. What more could you ask. After driving back to HCMC we flew out to Phu Quoc Island for a bit of r</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Mekong-River-Delta/blog-478899.html</link>
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                    <title>HCMC and the Mekong Delta</title>
                    <description>After a short flight from Hoi An we arrived it HCMC aka Ho Chi Minh City aka Saigon. We decided to take a tour of the Mekong Delta which included the floating market. There were thousands of boats. Big ones little ones packed with everything from pineapples to pigs. Quite the show. The farmers were all there selling as much as they could 'cause Tet was less than a week away. Tet of course bein</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Mekong-River-Delta/blog-475052.html</link>
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                    <title>Hue Hoi An and the beach.</title>
                    <description>After leaving Ha Noi we took the sleeper train to Hue pronounced Hway a former capital of Vietnam. There were lots of old Palaces and Tombs inside a massive Citadel. The city suffered during the war and is slowly being restored. Two days here and we were off to Hoi An for a bit of beach relaxation and lots of clothes shopping.Hoi An is the city of a thousand tailors and at least 500 shoemakers. </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Thua-Thien-Hu-/Hue/blog-473747.html</link>
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                    <title>Fantasy Islands.</title>
                    <description>We have left the lovely country of Lao behind and we're moving on to Vietnam. The calm of Lao has been replaced by the frantic hustle and bustle of Ha Noi. With it's 8 million people and 36 million scooters it is a nightmare crossing the street.Luckily we decided to stop off on Ha Long Bay for a short cruise. Wow what a difference. Quiet peaceful and most of all the view of a lifetime.The best p</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Red-River-Delta/Hanoi/blog-472554.html</link>
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                    <title>A nice quiet holiday this time.</title>
                    <description>Well after the hectic hustle and chaos of India we thought that we would have a nice relaxing holiday this year. We're jetting off to Costa Rica this time and with everything that we've seen and heard it should be a trip to remember. To start with there was the earthquake a week before we left. Luckily it was strong but there wasn't much damage. Hopefully it will set off some activity in the v</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/blog-363643.html</link>
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                    <title>Lao Land of hill and rivers.</title>
                    <description>We've been in Lao for about five days now and it is the most friendly county you could imagine. With it's French influenced architecture and food this charming country is a treat for the eyes and the stomach.After the cruise down the Mekong we stopped in Luang Prabang. From here we did several side trips the best of which was the elephant riding and zipline. Not at the same time though. The oth</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/West/Luang-Prabang/blog-470273.html</link>
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                    <title>SE Asia  2010</title>
                    <description>Well we can't believe that it's been 2 years since our last big adventure. India is still so fresh in our minds. We're heading back to Asia and this time we're travelling though Thailand Laos Vietnam and Cambodia with a quick stopover in Istanbul. So many places to look forward to and so many new people to meet. It should be a lot of fun and above all..... no snow.As before I'll try not to bo</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Northern-Thailand/Chiang-Khong/blog-465899.html</link>
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                    <title>India  2008  GAP Tour Photos  </title>
                    <description>Here are some more photos that never got on to the blog. Hope you enjoy them. These are the ones from the GAP Tour of South India.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/blog-280546.html</link>
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                    <title>Home Again.</title>
                    <description>We're home and it feels good. We've travelled half way around the world and arrived back safely. We've seen places we'll always remember and things that we can't forget. We've had great times and tough times. But all of these things are part of the travel experience. Without the bad times the good times wouldn't have been so enjoyable. Without the friends the the places would have been less inter</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Toronto/blog-277081.html</link>
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                    <title>London Liverpool and London again.</title>
                    <description>Well so much for relaxing. This is more intense than India. Jetting in from the subcontinent our feet had barely touched the ground in London before we were wisked off to Liverpool by Doug and Nancy and forced to watch a football match between Everton and Chelsea. Oh well ya gotta do what ya gotta do. Seriously though it was fantastic. My first Premiership game and my first Chelsea game all in o</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-268985.html</link>
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                    <title>Mumbai and out.</title>
                    <description>We're back in Mumbai. This time to stay a little longer than the 2 hours we spent here 5 weeks ago.Mumbai is a bit of an enigma. It's a big Indian city but it's a lot different than others like Delhi and Chennai. It's cleaner more modern and there are more western stye shops and hotels. In some ways this is good you can get an espresso or a salad. In some ways it's not so good there are McDonal</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Maharashtra/Mumbai/blog-268961.html</link>
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                    <title>Ahmedabad and Baroda</title>
                    <description>We've left Rajastan now and we've decided to head south again. The trouble with travelling in India is that you can never do anything on the spur of the moment. You have to plan everything days in advance. Not much fun if you want to change plans on a whim.Going from Udaipur we wanted to go to a resort area called Diu in the south of Gujarat. Well that would have taken over 24 hours by train so we</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Gujarat/Ahmedabad/blog-268532.html</link>
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                    <title>The Temple of Pillers and Udaipur</title>
                    <description>Our trek through Rajastan is over. We did the final leg from Jhodpur to Udaipur by way of a magnificent Jain Temple. The temple has over a thousand columns every one different. Although it would be more impressive if they had all been identical. The Jains are the ultra orthodox hindus and they don't like shorts in the temple. So I had to rent a lovely pair of pants. The best part was that they ch</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/blog-268180.html</link>
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                    <title>The Great Thar Desert.</title>
                    <description>We were getting deeper and deeper into the desert now. I'd never seen India so barren of people. Everywhere else it was wall to wall bodies. Now we were driving 10 to 20 kms between seeing a soul. The goats outnumbered the people 100 to 1. The people were changing as well. There were turbans on the men and wildly colourful saris on the women. Even the camels were getting in on the action with orna</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Jaisalmer/blog-266957.html</link>
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                    <title>On the road to Bikaner.</title>
                    <description>We've finally made it to the desert. The terrain is changing rapidly now far fewer crops and cows. Now it's all scrub goats and camels. All of the houses are made of mud with straw roofs and have cute little outbuildings made of dung. Nice.On the way to Bikaner we had a chance to see the rural life in the desert. A way of life that probably hasn't changed much in 500 years. Crops are still gath</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Bikaner/blog-266938.html</link>
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