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Auli is a picture postcard kind of a place situated in Uttaranchal, India.

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We arrived in Shanghai, after a long flight from Delhi. Even though we were exhausted, we decided to take a public bus rather than a taxi into the city from the airport, to save some money (we are backpackers after all).

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We fell for a minor travel scam as we booked the 'special air-conditioned tourist' coach across the border from Hue in Vietnam to Savannakhet in Laos.

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The whole moai (pronounced moy) thing is a bit of a mystery. In a nutshell, apparently (although nothing is definite), hundreds of years ago, the statues were made by the poor people (short ears) for the aristocracy (long ears). They made hundreds of..

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Four weeks after arriving in Pakistan, I set off on a 4 day drive up the Karakorum Highway and beyond - on dirt tracks, to as high as it would take us - then a week's walking up the huge Baltoro Glacier, which is indescribably spectacular.

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After meeting a lot of other backpackers who had recently been to Nepal, our decision to come here was made easy, especially because we were now up for some serious trekking.

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Rajaji National Park is a wildlife reserve in Uttaranchal, India. It falls in the lower Shivalik regions of the Himalayas. It is a peaceful and quick getaway from the capital of India, New Delhi.

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Last weekend we went for a hot air balloon ride. What a magnificent experience that was! I collected Elena my friend and her daughters Loriana and Barbara and drove to Trim, a place near Dublin. It turned out to be a perfect day with crystal clear sk..

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Ushuaia is the southernmost city in the world. It is 3500 miles from the Bolivian border, in the north of the country, and only 600 miles from Antarctica, and as a result, it is the base from where Antarctic expeditions and some tourist boats leave.

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