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I just got back from a short vacation to “God's own country”. This trip has actually forced me to question my dear God's tastes.

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Our brief encounters with the Lao people have been very pleasant. They have the same big, friendly smile as the Thais, but seem a little more laid back. The country's political system is modelled after the Vietnamese communist system, but it is not s..

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Shimla is a just like a little bit of Britain but in the Himalayas. There are all sorts of English architecture with some mock Tudor buildings, a traditional church with tower and many other buildings looking just like home.

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Man, are our rear ends giving us some grief...no, not like that, everything is perfectly solid! We've come back from a 2 day camel safari and are having immense trouble walking!

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I saw a horribly worrying statistic a few months ago - apparently nowadays, more people from the UK visit Thailand than Spain each year. I had a nasty image in my mind of football shirt wearing hoards, the "more earrings than a-levels" brigade domina..

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To sum up Kashmir is difficult as there is so much to offer and I only saw a limited amount. What I did see however impressed me immensely and I would describe it as one of the most beautiful places on the planet, providing the perfect atmosphere and..

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Sydney is an amazing city and a strange one at that. It has the usual city stuff and then tagged on are two iconic pieces of architecture, several wharfs and harbours and loads of beaches (you can live by the beach and travel half an hour to work in ..

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This travelogue describes my experiences on a five day trek from Lamayuru to Chilling in the mountains of Ladakh.

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After a very blissful morning meditation, I take leave of the Ganges, and bid farewell to Beehm, Hari and the gang at the Hotel Ganges Kinares. It''s only a two hour taxi ride to Mussoorie, passing through the city of Dehra Dun, and the comical highl..

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Jen and I got ourselves ready for our trip to Yosemite National Park, both pretty nervous and not sure what to expect. We knew it would be a whole bunch of people sharing one bus for 4 days without showers but we didn''t know how many or how it would..

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