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                    <title>LAO P.D.R.</title>
                    <description>LOGISTICS re VISA RUN TO LAO DPR LAOS httpyoutu.beHiZ0oElc014click on link to see VIDEO OF BOAT ON MEKONG RIVER BE SURE TO SCROLL TO FOLLOWING PAGES TO SEE ALL PHOTOS 32 Time again for a run to the border to renew my visa. I39ve been to Laos a long time ago but only the capital city of Vientiane. The place has gotten very popular with backpackers and also tour groups mostly French v</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/West/Huay-Xai/blog-758166.html</link>
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                    <title>HAT goes home</title>
                    <description>It39s the end of the summer and HAT thinks this is his last season. He wants to visit his homeland.CLICK ON ANY PHOTO TO ENLARGENOTE TWO PAGES OF PHOTOSMEXICOWe HAT and I flew to Cancun a city which quickly proved to be a disappointment in having developed into a tourist destination. Accommodation here wasn39t cheap but by booking online you could save 25. To be fair for the same pric</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/blog-744657.html</link>
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                    <title>INDIA</title>
                    <description>BANGKOKKOLKATAVARANASIKHAJURAHO  BE SURE TO VIEW ALL FOUR VIDEOS ABOVE Well its visaruntime again. This together with Songkran celebrations coming up in Chiang Mai and a cheap Air Asia promotion to Kolkata Callcutta to us oldtimers bekoned a short jaunt to India. Air Asia can offer cheap flights but then they nickel and dime you with the extras like checkin baggage  water. I brought o</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/West-Bengal/Kolkata/blog-700080.html</link>
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                    <title>Chiang Mai 2012</title>
                    <description>Panorama View Above Chinese Temple near Chiang Mai. At the Borsang Umbrella Festival  a few kilometres east of Chiang Mai not only do they hand paint the fans and umbrellas but they39llalso hand paint decorations on your Tshirt jeans cell phone or in my case see photo eyeglass case.httpwww.travelblog.orgAsiaThailandNorthWestThailandChiangMaiblog463745.html Just click on the</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-682592.html</link>
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                    <title>Odds and Ends Cambodia</title>
                    <description>I needed to go for visarun and a fellow I knew from Managua was visiting Cambodia. Seemed like a good excuse to visit Phnom Pehn.As it turned out by the time I arrived he had returned to Central America. Nevertheless while looking for him in one of the seedier bars I bumped into a friend from Chiang MaI. Small worldIn my view central Phnom Pehn is not much different than 10 years ago. See the</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/blog-592063.html</link>
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                    <title>Chiang Mai Hiking  2011</title>
                    <description>Weekend of November 19th20th 2011Hike and Overnight Stay in Khun Tan National Park.We caught the 645 am train and arrived at Khun Tanabout 8am where we started the hike.The hike and day went well.At the beginning of the hike where you pay for the night and are able to pickup eats if you want there was an interesting incident. I saw an employee of the canteena sweeping39 what at first looked</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Lamphun/blog-666823.html</link>
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                    <title>Extra Special Visa Run</title>
                    <description>For video above click on one of the four links above and to the rightIt39s time for another visarun to extend my stay in Thailand. This time my visa renewal coincides withSongkran the Thai New Year which involves copious amounts of water and can be fun if you like headbanging music and being soakenwet all week. See last years blog when I stayed in Chiang Mai for Songkran. Per Chance E</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/blog-571132.html</link>
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                    <title>Transit in Kuala Lumpur</title>
                    <description> First Stop MalaysiaIt39s time for another visarun to extend my stay in Thailand. Air Asia flew direct from Chiang Mai Thailand to Kuala Lumpur Malaysiathen from there I39ll go to the Philippines.This time my visa renewal requirement coincides with Songkran the Thai New Year which involves copious amounts of water and can be fun if you like to be soakenwet all week. ISee last years </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Wilayah-Persekutuan/Kuala-Lumpur/blog-608729.html</link>
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                    <title>Hiking Chiang Mai</title>
                    <description>Videos Some people are really special. Look at this guys birthday party.I forgot I even had birthdays .  .HIKING Hiking  is better at the higher altitudes at this time of year because of the heat.I did my first hike on 6th January 2011  starting at 1500 metreswhich was mentioned in the previous blog.  The  hike Sun Feb 13th 2011 wasalong the Pilgrims39 Trail.It was a 600 meter climb from t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/Doi-Suthep/blog-585569.html</link>
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                    <title>Christmas in Thailand</title>
                    <description>Videos                1. What's a little different about this New Year dance competition               2. Christmas Eve Thapae Gate               3. The Best of the Year of the Rabbit               4. Annual Flower Festival Parade Christmas is acknowledged in Thailand even though its a Buddhist country.  The Thais willuse any excuse to have fun and celebrate. And the commercial aspect isn't los</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-555226.html</link>
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                    <title>I'mmm BACK</title>
                    <description>HEY  WHAT39S THIS GUY LOOKING ATLoi Kratong Parade is to pay respect to water godsThe King39s birthday is a national holidayBe sure to click on ALL 4 videos listed above to the right.Back To ThailandFrom Toronto via London England thanks to  British Airways. My luggage was 45 kg How did I managed that when the airline makes sure you haveonly 1 bag of maximum weight 23 kg for check in or</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-549521.html</link>
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                    <title>Bicycle in Europe  Part VI Germany</title>
                    <description>Video 1 The Latinos above were jamming at The Tent and then in the evening around the fire pit.Video 2 There are buskers worldwide but note the quality at the MarienplatzVideo 3 Fun Fair portion of Octoberfest Europe by Bicycle Part VIGermanyFrom Austria see previous blog Europe by Bicycle Part V I arrived in Mittenwald my first town in the German state of Barvaria.Mittenwald is a traditi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/blog-535281.html</link>
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                    <title>Bicycle in Europe  Part V Austria</title>
                    <description>Photo  FromTop of Tirolean Alps with the City of Innsbruck Below.  Europe by Bicycle Part VAustriaFirst stop was the Innsbruck tourist information centre. I doubt if thereis a more considerate group of people in all of Europe.I biked to a hostel about 4 km along the river.There I shared a dorm room with three others. One was a 18 year old Mexican guywho was training for a rock climbing competiti</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Tyrol/blog-528568.html</link>
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                    <title>Bicycle in Europe Part IV</title>
                    <description>To see the route map in a better perspective use the scroll knob on your mouse over the map to enlarge the viewEurope by Bicycle Part IVLichtensteinSwitzerlandGermany I arrived in Basel Switzerland.I know the Swiss are tolerant but at the Central Station the mostnotable impression was made by all the druggies partying unharassed.The other thing I noticed was the increase in prices for things </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Liechtenstein/blog-536619.html</link>
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                    <title>Bicycle in Europe Part III Luxembourg</title>
                    <description>Europe by Bicycle Part III Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Bastogne Belgium to Wiltz Luxembourg was the most pleasant bike path of the whole trip.It even had lights in the tunnel. A tunnel which was for bicycles...no cars.I probably didn39t have to push my pedal more than half a dozen times to travel the 20 km route. Oh that39s the way uhhuh uhhuhI like it uhhuh uhhuh. As K.C. and Th</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Luxembourg/blog-525121.html</link>
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                    <title>Bicycle in Europe Part II  Belgium</title>
                    <description>Europe by Bicycle Part IIBelgium From Maastricht The Netherlands I headed south into the Belgium Walloon region along what started out as a fair bicycle path. Then the path degenerated into poorly maintened paths cluttered with broken beerbottles. The bicycle path  signs became fewer then non existent along with the path itself. That's not to say that thereweren't some beautiful parts along the</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Belgium/Liege-Province/blog-525120.html</link>
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                    <title>Bicycle in Europe  Part I The Netherlands</title>
                    <description>Above  Canals of AmsterdamThe way we travel by a RV Caravan the Dutch travel with boats through the canals of Europe.Europe by Bicycle Part IThe Netherlands On Sunday July 18 2010 I rode my bicycle to the Toronto International airport and flew with Air Transat to Amsterdam.PrologueIt's the same airline I flew with 9 years ago on my last bicycle tour of Europe.  The airline was memorable bec</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/blog-496119.html</link>
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                    <title>Toronto Parade</title>
                    <description>The Gay Pride Parade.  The parade must have been two hours long in the blistering heat.The week end attracts about a million visitors to Toronto. There's a very prominent subculture of gays justtwo blocks north of my residence but  this week end the whole street lights up with bigburley guys in leathers holding hands really big transexuals strolling about  muscle men in their speedos and if yo</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Toronto/blog-502922.html</link>
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                    <title>Back to Toronto</title>
                    <description>Flew into Toronto on May 13th from BangkokA big contrast between western cities and Asian cities is the pedestrian rightofway.  In Asia a bigger vehicle has right of way over a smaller vehicle and a smaller vehicle has right of way over pedestrians. Pedestrians are at the bottom of the list. They even have to walk around dogs sleeping on the sidewalk.  Here in Toronto cars inch around a right h</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Toronto/blog-500328.html</link>
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                    <title>ChiangMai</title>
                    <description>Last entry this year from Thailand.From Chiang Mai I'm flying into Bangkok. Even though at this time of year an overnight bus is cheaper than a hotel room  my main reason flying is that the redshirt protesters could easily cause a delay on my way to the airport and cause me to miss my flight.  I usually like to spend a day or so in Bangkok but I'm not going to risk it.Instead I've booked a flig</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-490094.html</link>
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