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Southeast Asia
The Mekong DeltaAfter a completely enjoyable week on the beach, it was time to head down to Vietnam. I booked a combination bus/boat taxi service down to the town of Chao Doc and then on to Saigon. All together it would take two days to make the trip, which I wasn’t aware of until we’d stopped for [...]
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Coastal CambodiaMeg and I have moved on to the coast of Cambodia. Getting here was a little more complicated than we’d thought, but it all worked out eventually. We’d planned on taking the train from PP to the town of Kampot, but when we showed up at the train station, we were told "no [...]
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Phnom PhenAfter three days in Siam Reap, I decided to head down to the capital city of Phnom Phen where I was supposed to meet up with Megan again. I booked a ticket on a speed boat that would take me from Siam Reap down the Tonle Sap river to PP. The [...]
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Angkor WatI arrived in Cambodia after a grueling 12 hour bus trip. It’s so apparent that you’ve crossed the border. The roads in Thailand are first class, while those in Cambodia barely deserve to be called "roads". It took 10 hours to go 100 kilometers! When I got to Siam Reap, I tried to find [...]
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The Bridge over the River KwaiWhile waiting for my Vietnam and Cambodian visas to come thru, I decided to take a quick trip to the town of Kanchanburi to see the famous bridge over the river Kwai that inspired the movie of the same name. Of course it’s not the actual bridge of the movie…first, the movie was shot [...]
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Bangkok TemplesAfter hanging out on the islands, I figured it was time to finally move to Bangkok itself. I arrived on the overnight train, and found a local bus to take me to Khao San road. This is the central location for every dirty backpacker in all of SE Asia. It’s a huge [...]
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Ko SamuiI’ve moved on to the island of Ko Samui. This is a much more touristic island than Phi Phi, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. There is so much to do here that I think you could spend two or three weeks seeing everything! I’m staying at a beach on the northern part of [...]
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Ang Thong national parkI spent yesterday going to the Ang Thong national marine park. This area is a bunch of islands that are mostly uninhabited, and fairly small. The standard tour starts out somewhere on Ko Samui, and then you take a relaxing boat ride out a couple of hours to the archipelago of about 40 islands. Once [...]
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Ko Phi PhiAfter three long days of traveling I’ve arrive in Thailand finally. I’ve based myself on the island of Ko Phi Phi. I’m staying on long beach, which is around the back side of the island from the main harbor and ferry stop. Getting between the main town and our beach requires a taxi ride in [...]
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Pulau WehPulau Weh is a small island at the very northern tip of Sumatra. I’d heard that it offered some of the best diving in the area, and that hardly anyone went there…that was enough for me, so I decided to head up there to check it out. From the town of Medan it [...]
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