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Mussoorie
19th of April 2011 The following morning we were all invited to Gaurav’s Aunt’s place for breakfast. They lived in Mussoorie and had a fantastic little shop in which you could find anything you wanted, along with a small local restaurant. We had delicious...
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4000 Islands
4 th - 6 th of October 2011 We spent one last day relaxing in Vang Vieng, before booking our long journey to the 4000 islands. To get there we needed to go from Vang Vieng to Vientiane and from there to Pakse. We left on the 5 th of October and arrived...
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Vang Vieng
2nd of October 2011 A day before my birthday, we bought our tickets for Vang Vieng in a minivan for 115.000kip each and headed off to see what tubing and the other wonders of Vang Vieng were all about. We left Luang Prabang at 10.000am to arrive at Vang...
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Sapa
26 th of September 2011 We had driven all through the night, when we came to a stop on a big parking lot. Many people got off and we thought it would be a good chance to finally stretch our legs, so we descended into the very cold, early morning. After...
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Hue
22nd of September 2011 The morning bus to Hue was practically empty so we were able to take up several bunks at the back of the bus and sleep like babies the whole way. It wasn’t terribly far however as come around 10am, we were being dropped off in front...
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Nga Trang
17 th of September 2011 Now our time in Nga Trang was very short but very sweet. We had decided only to spend the day there, arriving early morning by night bus and leaving with another night bus that night. It worked out perfectly and we saved a night...
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Mui Ne
Once back in Ho Chi Minh, we had a few hours to wonder around and grab some dinner, before catching our first sleeping bus to Mui Ne. It left at 8pm getting us there for around 1am. We therefore reserved a hotel in advance just to make things simpler,...
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Mekong Delta two day trip
13th of September 2011 Bags packed, we left early in the morning from our guest house, after a lovely breakfast of eggs, jam, butter and toasted baguette. We were to be at Camel Travel Agency for 7:30am to start our two day trip on the Mekong Delta. When...
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Phnom Penh
19th of August 2011 We bought our tickets for Phnom Penh at the guest house and for five dollars each we would leave Siem Reap at 7am arriving around 14h in Phnom Penh. “Okay 1 Villa” also had a guest house in Phnom Penh so we reserved in advance so that...
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Cambodia: Siem Reap II
On one of our last nights in Siem Reap, we went to check out a traditional Apsara dance performance which took place every night at the Temple Club. It was free but the prices of the food you consumed definitely made it up. We had a very luxurious meal...
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Cambodia: Angkor
Finally one morning we made it up early enough to enjoy the splendours of Angkor. We paid 14dollars for a tuk-tuk from the hotel for the entire day and headed out. Angkor itself is a region that held the Khmer Empire and its Khmer King Jayavarman II from...
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Cambodia: Siem Reap
14 th of August 2011 We were rather excited about going to Siem Reap. We had heard much about its beauty, history, great nightlife and more. The idea of seeing for ourselves the famous and amazing Angkor temples: Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom…etc. was exhilarating....
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Bangkok
13 th of August 2011 Bangkok: Capital of Thailand with a total of eleven million inhabitants, fifty districts and 154 sub-districts. Being one of Asia’s most cosmopolitan cities, with much spiritualism, commercialism, culture, education and more, it provides...
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To Myanmar (Burma) and Back
1 st of August to the 14 th of August 2011 As it turns out, our time on Koh Tao was slightly extended. Our visa meant that we were actually supposed to leave Thailand on the 2 nd of August. We had originally thought that we had to be out by the 5 th ,...
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Back to Manali and Leh
3rd of June 2011 Once back from our trek we happily re-joined Lebo, Anna, Alex, Sanda and Sandra. We spent the following week or so playing Djembes, relaxing and all together just having fun. We all went trekking back to Vashisht one afternoon to see...
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Chandigarh
22nd of April 2011 We arrived around 18h in Chandigarh and were met by a very kind and helpful tourist police officer. He called us a taxi and rang to reserve us the cheapest hotel room he could find. However when we arrived at the hotel, the room was...
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Haridwar
12th of April 2011 After a very long trip of 12 hours all squished into small seats with our bags packed in around us and no fan, we arrived cramped and sweaty the next morning at our new destination Haridwar. The bus stop appeared to be in the middle...
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Trek Naggar to Manala
31st of April 2011 Our trek went from Naggar to Manala, around 45km long and consisted of 3 nights camping and 4 days trekking, we had 6 porters and a wonderful guide called Chotu. It cost us 1900Rps per person per day, which was quite a lot of money...
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Luang Prabang
30th of September 2011 We woke up to realise we still had no idea where we were. We quickly dressed and went down stairs, where embarrassingly we asked the guy at the front desk where we were. He confirmed we were in Luang Prabang and then asked if we...
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Chennai
30th of June to the 4th of July 2011 We arrived in Chennai around 11am and took a prepaid taxi to a hotel that we had for once looked for on the net beforehand. It was called Hotel Paradise and after negotiation we got a room for 350Rps, with a small...
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Koh Phangan, Full Moon Party 2011
17th of July 2011 The next day was a lazy day for all of us. We had a nice lie-in, nice cheap food next to the resort, swam in the pool…etc. We all wanted to be in good shape for the full moon party. That evening we went to the night market for brochettes...
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Rishikesh
15th, 16th, 17th and 18th of April 2011 The next few days were at the very least to say relaxing. We walked around the little shops that were scattered up and down the streets, gave an ice-cream to a monkey (who happily licked it away next to us), bought...
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Koh Phi Phi
6th of July 2011 Even though the hotel was to die for in comparison to any other since we had left London, we quickly had enough of Patong and wanted nothing more than to get away onto an Island surrounded by the turquoise sea. We checked out at 11am...
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Delhi and Agra
27th of June 2011 We arrived in Delhi in the late morning and shared a taxi to the main bazaar to find a hotel. Soon after, we found one called Vivek hotel. We spent the afternoon going to Naru place in search of a Mini laptop. Naru place is amazing;...
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Back to Bangkok
11 th of October 2011 It was a miserable rainy day on the Island and it was already time to leave. We had our tickets for Bangkok, as we were flying out from there only a few days later and wanted to get there with time to spare. Little did we know, it...