Trip: Indonesia to India
There are [62] stories from my trip: Indonesia to India
VIETNAM | Wednesday, 23 Aug 2006 | Views [809] | Comments [2]
You see and hear English words that are (practically?) unused in Australia - anyone know what a "suzerainty" is without looking it up, for instance? "Confluence" (a joining, specifically of rivers) crops up quite frequently - not ... Read more >
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VIETNAM | Tuesday, 22 Aug 2006 | Views [715]
When Dalat, in Vietnam's Central Highlands, is viewed from a distance,
it gives a very Central European impression. Many of the larger
buildings are from French colonial days. The lake is a manufactured one; the
hills in the background natural ... Read more >
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VIETNAM | Friday, 18 Aug 2006 | Views [1418]
In the minibus coming back from the River Kwae were A. and R., two
Brisbanites. "I thought you were foreign so I was speaking to you
really slowly", said A., on discovering I was also Australian - the peril of
being half-Japanese, ... Read more >
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VIETNAM | Tuesday, 15 Aug 2006 | Views [737]
I think the last time I'd been to a zoo may have been Ange and Kieren's
wedding reception; the only visible animals small and tasty. Saigon's
Historical Museum was closed on Mondays, however, and since the zoo was
adjacent it seemed a waste of a ... Read more >
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VIETNAM | Sunday, 13 Aug 2006 | Views [1027]
History is fungible Every War Museum I've been to has presented its own version of events; I suppose that the history presented by the Australian War Memorial is similarly individual, but since it presents a history aligned with what we learned ... Read more >
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CAMBODIA | Thursday, 3 Aug 2006 | Views [1534]
Banteay Samre, 15 km north of the main Angkorian clusters, consists of
a central temple on a stone island, surrounded by a (now grassy) moat,
in turn surrounded by a square high wall, surrounded by a walkway a
couple of metres wide, surrounded by ... Read more >
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CAMBODIA | Wednesday, 2 Aug 2006 | Views [901]
West Gate I'd not intended to visit Angkor Thom the day I did - the Western Baray and its temples were sufficient, I thought, to keep me occupied, but those plans had been scrapped once I'd seen the track. Instead, I found myself bouncing over laterite ... Read more >
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CAMBODIA | Friday, 28 Jul 2006 | Views [625]
Muddy Waters
There are two main families of bottled water in
Thailand/Laos/Cambodia. The (relatively) expensive type is normally
indistinguishable from standard Australian brands. The cheap type
comes in
900ml soft bottles with the label ... Read more >
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CAMBODIA | Wednesday, 26 Jul 2006 | Views [1147]
A Minor Alignment of Patterns...
So
I check out of my hotel, dump my bag next door (where I'll be picked up
for the overnighter to Pakse ),
and walk up the street... and there's
Jim, who's in town for a day before heading over the bridge ... Read more >
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LAOS | Monday, 24 Jul 2006 | Views [836]
Low Season
There are advantages to travelling in low season -
even-cheaper prices being one of them - but there are downsides too.
Repairs and maintenance are done during this period: the museum in
Kuala Selangor was closed, for instance, ... Read more >
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LAOS | Thursday, 20 Jul 2006 | Views [4468] | Comments [4]
Farewell Thailand There
wasn't much to border town Chiang Khong: an internet cafe that closed
at 11pm, turning me out into the waiting thunderstorm; a main street
terminating at the Mekong - not long, but long enough for a wet
bike-ride home;... Read more >
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THAILAND | Saturday, 15 Jul 2006 | Views [832]
Maths: E- Despite previously claiming to loathe long-distance travel of as much as seven hours' duration, I decided to break the eleven hour journey from Bangkok to Chiang Mai only at Ayutthaya, a one and a half hour train ride from Bangkok. ... Read more >
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THAILAND | Sunday, 9 Jul 2006 | Views [4067] | Comments [4]
A Close Shave I'd stopped shaving every day. Cold showers, though fantastic in evenings if the heat of the day is yet to dissipate, are not quite so pleasant when the shower is actually cold... and of course cold-water shaves make cold showers ... Read more >
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THAILAND | Wednesday, 5 Jul 2006 | Views [3883]
[ This is rated M for suggestive language and scenes of an Adult Nature. It's probably safer NOT to read it from work unless you have a relaxed internet policy ]
The Naked Truth
One of these days I'll complete ... Read more >
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MYANMAR | Saturday, 1 Jul 2006 | Views [1665] | Comments [3]
Q: How do you eat an elephant? A: One bite at a time. I hate long-distance travel, so I decided to break Phuket to Bangkok into three chunks, stopping in Ranong and Phetchaburi (Phetburi). Phuket and Phetchaburi were pretty well uneventful - walked ... Read more >
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THAILAND | Tuesday, 27 Jun 2006 | Views [1840]
I hadn't been reading the news for a few days in KL, and hadn't received any warning bulletins, so Chok Eng's warnings about multiple bombings in Southern Thailand since June the 15th came as an unpleasant surprise. It seems that there was rising ... Read more >
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MALAYSIA | Tuesday, 20 Jun 2006 | Views [5315]
I was originally going to write about turtles in Cherating. There's a turtle sanctuary there, with a small museum with models of turtles, diagrams of their breeding cycle, some turtles in a pond, and two tubs of baby green turtles waiting to be released ... Read more >
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MALAYSIA | Sunday, 18 Jun 2006 | Views [2592]
Details, or the lack of them : Yes, this is hideously late - it took ages to write and then ages to be vetted. There are blog entries that have been easy to write but this hasn't been one of them. I did random touristy things, but KL was mainly ... Read more >
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MALAYSIA | Monday, 12 Jun 2006 | Views [1280]
I've been slack and haven't finished writing up Pulau Penang, which was ages ago (World Nomads allows setting post date). As I really need to start writing up other things, please enjoy some disjointed paragraphs, without introduction or ending, instead ... Read more >
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MALAYSIA | Monday, 5 Jun 2006 | Views [1588]
I went down to Melaka last Friday with Ray, his distant cousin-in-law
Joanne, her friend Jamie, and her boss Samir. I was meant to have gone
to Melaka earlier in the week, but my first (and hopefully last) bout
of Traveller's Diarrhoea left me ... Read more >
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MALAYSIA | Monday, 29 May 2006 | Views [1803] | Comments [2]
The well-touristed village of Kuala Tahan sits on the eastern bank of the milk-coffee Sungai Tembeling where it's joined from the northwest by the smaller but equally muddy Sungei Tahan. It's an uncomfortable three hours upriver to get there by wooden ... Read more >
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MALAYSIA | Thursday, 25 May 2006 | Views [1709] | Comments [1]
At around midnight yesterday I made the snap decision that since there were a couple of free days before Friday's trip to Taman Negara , it was logistically sensible to go to Kuala Selangor in the morning and return the next day. KS was known ... Read more >
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SINGAPORE | Saturday, 20 May 2006 | Views [834]
I love Singapore, though it has corporal and capital punishment, bans the importation of chewing gum, and is an near one-party state where a number of voters fear voting for the opposition because they don't trust the secrecy of the ballot process.... Read more >
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INDONESIA | Thursday, 18 May 2006 | Views [920]
And you think you have it rough : Sales Rep, married, four month old kid, travels for thirty days around Java and Sumatra at a stretch and only gets to spend one week at home in Surabaya between tours. Some other companies provide 1 week a year, ... Read more >
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INDONESIA | Tuesday, 16 May 2006 | Views [3026] | Comments [2]
It seems like Yogyakarta's Batik Sellers will do almost anything to get a sale. An old resident of the Kraton referred to them as the "Batik Mafia" (he'd worked as a tour guide, and said that back in the seventies there were far more Australian ... Read more >
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