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                    <title>A Carnival of Animals</title>
                    <description>Well as the title might suggest the past week has been all about the wonderfully beautiful and varied wildlife of Sri Lanka. After ever so reluctantly leaving the absolute loveliness of Ella we eventually did move down out of the cool and refreshing hills and onto the hot and muggy plains of southern Sri Lanka. Our first stop was the little lakeside town of Tissa where we booked into our room n</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Sri-Lanka/Southern-Province/Galle/blog-767900.html</link>
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                    <title>Buddhist caves a big rock a train trip and taking tea in the high country...</title>
                    <description>Well a most wonderful ayu bowan from sunny Sri Lanka. Im sitting here writing this entry in our lovely little room high up in the hills of the eversosleepy village of Ella looking out over the dense jungle to a huge cascading waterfall as macaques and langurs leap from tree to tree all around.After the relative nonstop activitydriven adventures of India Jane and I decided to shift down</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Sri-Lanka/Central-Province/Ella/blog-766623.html</link>
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                    <title>From Keralan canals to Tamil temples and the joy of being blessed by an elephant </title>
                    <description>I39m writing this entry as the sun slowly sets over Thanjavur on our last night in India. The locals are all engaged in a frantic rush of activity in anticipation for the upcoming three day harvest festival known as Pongol. People are stocking up on vast swathes of sugar cane and rice paints are being bought to decorate one39s doorstep and cows are being washed down and having their horns p</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Thanjavur/blog-765750.html</link>
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                    <title>An Indian Familymoon</title>
                    <description>ltgtltxmlgt ltoOfficeDocumentSettingsgt  ltoAllowPNGgt ltoOfficeDocumentSettingsgtltxmlgtltgt Well namaste to you all and as a brief introduction this trip well the first half anyway is a little different than our normal travels. First of all it has incorporated many more people  namely Janes family  parents Ann and Peter brothers Jack and Tom a</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Kerala/Kochi-/blog-764915.html</link>
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                    <title>A tale of very very little...</title>
                    <description>Well I guess Id better apologise in advance. After the previous few blogs that contained such wonders as snorkelling with whale sharks swanning through deserted islands and of course the Mother of All Festivals this edition will likely seem quite tame and relatively uneventful. I hadnt really stopped much up until now  I had been moving every few days and doing lots of amazing things bu</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Negros-Oriental/Dumaguete/blog-682514.html</link>
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                    <title>The Mother of all Festivals</title>
                    <description>Bloody hell. After running out of superlatives in the last blog I find myself sitting here again wondering exactly how to put the past few days into words. I mean Im having an absolutely amazing time but its getting seriously hard to convey it.Having finally bid a fond farewell to paradise I soon faced a torturous day of travel that included my first flight being delayed by an hour and wh</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Panay/Kalibo/blog-681155.html</link>
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                    <title>This. Is. Paradise</title>
                    <description>Well. Ive been sitting here drinking icy cold beers for the last few hours just trying to work out how I could possibly describe the last five days. Pictures will barely do it justice let alone my feeble attempt at putting the experience into words. My fellow travellers and I ran out of superlatives in the first few hours of our five day trip and resorted to ecstatic grins satisfied sighs and</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Palawan/Coron/blog-679143.html</link>
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                    <title>From the island of black magic to swimming with the fishies...</title>
                    <description>So here I am sipping an icy cold beer on the island of Negros and I suppose Ill start this blog like I seem to have started so many in the past. Life is hard. Truly. Beautiful beaches stunning islands snorkelling among pristine reefs meeting wonderful people and a really amazing experience today that seems to have etched a permanent smile upon my face.After a long tedious and extremely draw</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Negros-Oriental/Dumaguete/blog-677042.html</link>
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                    <title>Wonderful wonderful wonderful Bali</title>
                    <description>Well I am sitting here drinking a last Bintang as the sun slowly sets over the Bali Sea to the left and the full moon rises to the right. Not a bad way to spend one's final night in Bali.The slow ferry from Lembar in Lombok to Padangbai was a fairly eventless five hours except for the odd local being desperately and violently seasick over the rails and I arrived just after dark. Padangbai itself</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/Lovina/blog-554135.html</link>
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                    <title>Stick fights cruising on bikes wonderful hikes and getting well and truly bucketed on...</title>
                    <description>Well Im sitting here in a little stilted lambung with 360 degrees views of hundreds upon hundreds of vividly green rice paddies as it pours with an absolutely earshattering monumental torrential rain. I understand that Australias been copping a fair bit itself but I truly dont believe Ive ever seen it rain quite like this before. Thankfully the locals have constructed extensive an</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Lombok/Rinjani/blog-552473.html</link>
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                    <title>Living the life on Gili Air</title>
                    <description>Apologies first of all. I had intended to include photos of this wonderful tropical paradise that Ive called home for the last week. But alas the internet connection here is operating at pre1990 levels and the potential for uploading photos despite my perserverence for the last few hours seems futileAnyway I am sitting here now on the bamboo verandah of my very own little bungalow look</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Lombok/Gili-Air/blog-551331.html</link>
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                    <title>Kuching Chinese New Year Cheese  Cheeky Monkeys</title>
                    <description>A week or so ago we departed Sibu on the ferry and slowly made our way into the delta and eventually the South China Sea on our way to Kuching. Its a smallish town with a heap of character that has managed to retain much of its colonial architecture as it was spared the extensive bombing that much of northern Borneo was subjected to during WWII. Back in the mid19th century the independently</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Sarawak/Mount-Santubong/blog-476653.html</link>
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                    <title>Prehistoric Caves and a Touch of Paradise up the Mighty Batang Rejang</title>
                    <description>Well were sitting here and sipping our beers as the sun slowly dips behind the teeming jungle  overlooking the treacherous Pelagus Rapids the site of innumerable battles between various headhunting tribes in years gone past After Mulu and a brief stop in Miri we paused overnight at the Niah Caves on our way south  a National Park again renowned for its caves. But whereas Mulu had the f</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Sarawak/Sibu/blog-474522.html</link>
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                    <title>Brunei Bugs  Bats</title>
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                    <title>Tiger prawns Orangutans  Rhinoceros Hornbills</title>
                    <description>We arrived in Kota Kinabulu aka KK previously known as Jesselton a week ago. Its a slightly odd little sliver of a town perched between the mountains on one side and the South China Sea on the other and full of wonderfully friendly and smiling locals. Our first couple of days were spent acclimatising  wandering through the muggy streets exploring numerous markets and eating excessively we</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-471701.html</link>
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                    <title>Berastagi to Balige to Bukittinggi</title>
                    <description>Youll have to excuse a slightly more subdued tone to this entry but I seem to have come down with a dose of Bukittinggibelly and am thus feeling slightly dodgy at the moment. Ron and a few others struck off before dawn this morning to climb a volcano but as Im having eruptions of volcanic proportions myself I wisely decided to strategically place myself near the loo and do very little el</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Bukittinggi/blog-371760.html</link>
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                    <title>A Sumatran Menagerie  Orangutans Elephants and those effin leeches</title>
                    <description>First of all apologies to all of you who have sent emails over the last ten days or so but I havent seen the internet since leaving Toba  alas the 21st century hasnt quite penetrated the throbbing jungles of North Sumatra just yet. However you will be pleased to hear that Ive actually done stuff this time so hopefully episode two will be a little more interesting than the previous en</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Bukit-Lawang/blog-369195.html</link>
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                    <title>A Hearty Horas from Danau Toba</title>
                    <description>Well Im sitting here on the verandah of my opulent villa at Danau Toba sipping a Bintang as the waves gently lap the shoreline and I gaze at the shrouded volcanic peaks that ring the lake. Life is very hard here. I woke up. I had a swim. Had some brekkie. Tried to read a book. Swam again. Ate again. Took some photos. Had a beer. Thats it. And its been pretty well like that so far. So pl</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Lake-Toba/blog-365841.html</link>
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                    <title>A Final Ma'a Salaama from the Middle East</title>
                    <description>Petra is something else altogether a beautiful city carved into and out of the rocky outcrops of Wadi Musa  the Valley of Moses  and which was the capital of the ancient Nabatean people. It is also an area replete with Biblical associations in which it was known as both Seir and Sela. The most famous Petran was King Herod he who lopped off John the Baptists head. Earlier the Cainites son</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Jordan/North/Amman/blog-237645.html</link>
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                    <title>Biblical Breakdowns  Bedding down with the Bedouin</title>
                    <description>To make up for the delay in managing to get the last post up I've knocked up another quite quickly. I've also included some photos of us  for those who've been asking  that cover the last three weeks or so through Syria and Jordan  enjoyAnd so on to Jordan. We eventually crossed the border from Syria after a good two hour delay as the border guards proceeded to search every single vehicle </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Jordan/South/Wadi-Rum/blog-235943.html</link>
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