Intrepid Asia in Ninety Days with Flashbacks

Since returning from Asia I have decided to move the entire Tangential Asia 2014 blog to my own website at dhushara.com. All the other previous blogs remain on Blogspot and can be accessed from ...

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Yan on the way up the mountain Today we fell into one of those slightly out of control experiences traveling throws at you. Sapa is full of Hmong women from the surrounding villages who try...

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Just got off the night train to Sapa. The journey was not too bad in the hard sleeper with heaps of Chinese and Vietnamese travelers - two to a bunk in one case. The air conditioning worked well ...

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We made it into Hanoi after a cosy stopover in a funky hotel, New Wave 2, in Nilai - a very nondescript Malaysian town 12 kms from the KL airport. The taxi driver seemed unable to find it but it ...

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Had a couple of off the radar days. We set off from Lovina and Christine had noticed a way we could loop back up to the volcano rim to head East over the road to Antosari which was supposed to b...

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Richly adorned wayside temple Today we drove off in our bumpy little Suzuki and managed to navigate using Google Maps along little side roads across to a temple Pura Taman Ayun on the main...

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A Balinesse music procession at Ubud Made it to Satwa homestay at 4 am NZ time after a very long flight in which we swooned off a few times and the hostess threatened to report me to the In...

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We are in the process of planning a third intrepid trip to Asia in May-July 2014. Here is an outline of the scope of the trip and some of the key internet sites we have used in setting it up....

http://asiain90days.blogspot.com/2014/04/return-to-asia-2014.html

Arriving on the ferry from Macau We spent one and a half days wandering Hong Kong Island and made a trip to the pet and clothing markets in Kowloon. These images are confined to walking the cen...

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Discovery Bay (Wikimedia) June 2005 Lantau and Peng Chau are two islands off Hong Kong. While Peng Chau is a fascinating little traditional Chinese fishing island full of elderly retirees, Dis...

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Pictures of Guangdong in transit in the morning July 2005 We had traveled into Macau on an overnight sleeper bus from Yangshuo, with three cramped rows of stainless steel slipper-shaped 'coffi...

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Arriving in Bangkok The old Don Muang Airport was still huge and swish 2006-08-30 We got here at about 8pm still severely jet lagged, but spent an evening in the hippie haunts of Khao San Rd....

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Masjid Abdul Gaffoor , Dunlop Street, within Little India off Jalan Besar. 2006-8-29 Singapore was a one night transition stop for us on the way to Bangkok and then on to Calcutta where our jo...

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Gateway to the kampung 0. Last Minuet in Melacca 1. Melacca Temples on Harmony Street 2. Kampung Chitti Kampung Chitty is an enclave on the outskirts of Old Melacca where there is an Indian...

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Sri Poyatha Moorthi temple 0. Last Minuet in Melacca 1. Melacca Temples on Harmony Street 2. Kampung Chitti Sri Poyatha Moorthi Temple is the oldest Hindu temple in Malaysia as well as th...

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Old Colonial Melacca centre 0. Last Minuet in Melacca 1. Melacca Temples on Harmony Street 2. Kampung Chitti 2006-11-22 We decided to take a short detour to Melacca because we had a couple ...

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Anjua Guest House right opposite the Pudaraya Bus Station 2006-11-22 We spent the last night in Kuala Lumpur in the Anjua Guest House right opposite the Pudaraya Bus Station, the central nexus ...

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En route to the Cameron Highlands 2006-11-19 Tonight we ended up in the Cameron Highlands in a series of strange cubic centimeters of chance neither of us expected. We got up early caught a ta...

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0. Pleasures of Penang the central blog of our stay with the pictures of Georgetown. 1. Penang Chinese Temples and Clan Temples including the Kuan Yin Teng Goddess of Mercy Temple 2. Penang I...

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Kek Lok Si - Air Itam 0. Pleasures of Penang the central blog of our stay with the pictures of Georgetown. 1. Penang Chinese Temples and Clan Temples including the Kuan Yin Teng Goddess of Me...

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Sri Mariamman Temple 0. Pleasures of Penang the central blog of our stay with the pictures of Georgetown. 1. Penang Chinese Temples and Clan Temples including the Kuan Yin Teng Goddess of Mer...

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Kuan Yin Teng 0. Pleasures of Penang the central blog of our stay with the pictures of Georgetown. 1. Penang Chinese Temples and Clan Temples including the Kuan Yin Teng Goddess of Mercy Temp...

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Arriving in Penang Penang was culturally so rich we have had to assign four blogs to it. In addition to this one there follows: 0. Pleasures of Penang the central blog of our stay with the pi...

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Took the bus at noon for Krabi, having ferried all our luggage at the last minute in relays to the bus station. A great well air-conditioned bus. Unfortunately the bus station is 6 ks out of to...

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The On on Hotel This morning found us boarding a bus for Phuket which took another 4 to 5 hours, followed by a long haul of our luggage several blocks in the heat and dust to the cool cheap com...

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