THAILAND | Wednesday, 5 Jul 2006 | Views [3880]
[ 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 [1664] | 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 [1837]
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 [5313]
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 [2589]
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 [1276]
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 [1585]
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 [1799] | 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 [1707] | 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 [832]
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 [917]
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 [3023] | 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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INDONESIA | Monday, 15 May 2006 | Views [2625] | Comments [1]
I've visited Candi (temple) Mendut and Borobudur twice in a few days. The second trip was much better than the first, and also allowed me to see Prambanan. The first time was for the 2550th Waisak ceremony, which commemorates (Gautama) Buddha's birth, ... Read more >
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INDONESIA | Wednesday, 10 May 2006 | Views [1395]
Five Homestay Cakra residents - Wayu ( Homestay owner and driver), Dodi (gofer and guide), Doug and Nerese (guests from Oxford; in Solo for the month while Doug receives gamelan tuition), and myself - went on a daytrip yesterday to Candi ... Read more >
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INDONESIA | Sunday, 7 May 2006 | Views [958] | Comments [1]
The Museum of the Kraton Surakarta has mainly large-ish displays and artifacts - carriages, bronzed reliefs, displays (ugly), statuettes, and weaponry. A small part of the Kraton Surakarta is accessable through the museum - a dirt-floored courtyard ... Read more >
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INDONESIA | Friday, 5 May 2006 | Views [1515] | Comments [1]
I've had a fair amount of travelling (with two time zone changes) over the last three days - the laundry list is 30m bemo (Lovina - Singaraja); 2h bus (Singaraja - Gilimanuk), 1h ferry (Gilimanuk - Banyuwangi, Java), 6h train (Banyuwangi-> Surabaya), ... Read more >
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INDONESIA | Monday, 1 May 2006 | Views [772]
Hotel Perama: Frog in bathroom. Lonely Planet's 'recommendation' correct. Lovina Beach by day: Black sand. Quiet. No swimmers. Many hawkers. Lovina Beach by night: Almost pitch black except for fishing lights. Hotel Damu: Third floor, ... Read more >
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INDONESIA | Sunday, 30 Apr 2006 | Views [951] | Comments [1]
Bedugul, in the mountains about halfway between Ubud and Lovina, was like another country yesterday: 1. Get out of the bus at about 12:30 pm; look around futilely for people to suggest places to stay. 2. Wander down hill with Ian from Edinburgh who's ... Read more >
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INDONESIA | Friday, 28 Apr 2006 | Views [1263]
The major festival of Galungan is coming up next week, many temples are being spruced up, and preparations are being made. As part of the celebrations, the Balinese construct tall bamboo poles from shorter lengths, with their tips bowed over suspending ... Read more >
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INDONESIA | Thursday, 27 Apr 2006 | Views [1163]
I'd a lazy day today - heat rash left me disinclined to move much (anyone know a sure-fire cure for the thing? Showers and hydrocortisone don't seem to be making a huge difference), so I read a book and dozed. Anyway - miscellanea: Excitement :... Read more >
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INDONESIA | Wednesday, 26 Apr 2006 | Views [881]
Evidence of worship is everywhere in Bali. You can't travel more than a few hundred meters without seeing a Hindu temple of some size and description, the footpaths are carpeted with offerings on squares of banana leaf or in containers of woven palm ... Read more >
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INDONESIA | Tuesday, 25 Apr 2006 | Views [891]
This morning I had the opportunity to visit a Hindu Ceremony, but that would have blown my budget, so instead I hired a bike and cycled down the hill to the Monkey Forest Sanctuary. There, in a tamed rainforest setting (trees with masses of gnarled ... Read more >
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INDONESIA | Monday, 24 Apr 2006 | Views [1362] | Comments [3]
[Diarrhoea: An uncontrolled outpouring into one's journal] Well, I left the internet cafe yesterday to find that night had fallen while I was inside. After some aspirin and water from the nearby chemist (I must be more careful about dehydration) ... Read more >
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INDONESIA | Sunday, 23 Apr 2006 | Views [850]
Memo to Australian Airlines: It occurred to me, as I sat in one of your 200 tonne pieces of metal that there may be a time more suitable than while your Captain is attempting a controlled plummet to reveal that the capital of Lombok is Praya. Well, ... Read more >
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