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We caught the train from Madurai to Thiruvananthapuram (we will only write its name once, we won't even try to say it!), and spent a day before moving on to Varkala.

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We got into India on Sunday. Our itinerary originally said that we arrived on Saturday in the afternoon but they got a little confused and we actually showed up at 2 am. Immediately everything was so different, the weather being the most noticeable o..

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So here I am in the foothills of the Himalayas, the scenery is breathtaking and I haven't even done much exploring yet. I am just so glad to be somewhere where the air is clear, the air is also pretty darn cold too I can tell you, I have had to buy a..

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The koalas were so sweet and amazingly good balancers, they could just precariously sit on one little branch and sleep! In fact that's all they really do (for 19 hours a day - sounds like Paul).

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Adam’s Peak, also known as Sri Pada, has been one of Sri Lanka’s most important religious pilgrimage sites for over a thousand years. It is known to Christians as the place on earth where Adam first set foot after getting the boot from heaven. To Bud..

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On the 1st of June 2005 we caught a bus from Uyuni (Bolivia) to Potosi (still in Bolivia), the highest city in the world (4100m or 13500ft) and a UNESCO World Heritage City.

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Our motorbike tour of the Central Highlands began in Dalat, when we met an easy rider named Lucky. He convinced us, pretty easily, that the journey from Dalat to Hoi An via motorbike would be amazing. He turned out to be right. Not only were we able

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Having lived for several years in Pune and traveled to Bombay innumerable times by the Deccan Queen, I must relay my experiences of traveling on this train. Starting early in the morning at 7.10 a.m. from Pune station for a three and a half hour ride..

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In the last week of April I was driving, listening to the radio, in Ireland. A garden expert was talking about some strange garden in Amsterdam, Netherlands, called Keukenhof. He extolled it dearly.

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Our first Indian bus experience - Agra to Jaipur. Not too bad apart from the constantly crying kid behind us and the overuse of the bus horn. Every vehicle in India has a horn and it is used constantly for all manner of reasons: as a warning to get o..

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