Mapping our travels through India, China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos & Thailand.
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More buses!! We are getting very skilled at curling up into a half decent position for sleeping on the long bus journeys. Arrived in Chau Doc not too far past the Vietnamese border. Triangular straw hats and even more scooters were to be seen everywhere....
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Sihanoukville is one of Cambodia's top beach resorts and is a welcome change from cities. The sun was shinning for the two days we were here. Our hotel was five minutes walk from the beach and had a pool. There was a nice beach with a strip of bars and...
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To make our way to the capital city of Cambodia, Phnom Pehn, the group hopped onto a local bus. It was a five hour drive through the countryside, passing many houses on stilts and water buffalo soaking themselves in muddy pits. Even though we had arrived...
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Bangkok We flew into Bangkok in the dead of night and to the worst floods Thailand has experienced in 40 years. The roads where passable for the most part driving to our hotel. The following night we met our tour group for a introduction dinner when the...
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We hopped on a bullet train from Guangzhou to Hong Kong and I was pretty excited about being upstairs on the train - what? It was cool! We said goodbye to Chinas mainland and I am so glad we included it in our trip we really had an amazing time but my...
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Yangshuo is about an hour from Guilin and has amazing scenery with plenty of rivers and lakes. Yangshuo was China's first tourist town so everywhere you look there are stalls galore selling every type of souvenir available. The week we visited was China's...
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So China has this national holiday week at the beginning of October which means way too many people all trying to move around the country at the same time so getting train tickets is like winning the lotto. So we flew from Shanghai to Guilin. Guilin is...
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