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A few highlights of the last month: Smoggy, sumptuous Saigon: where we sampled all forms of transport and movement – rowboats and speedboats down the Mekong, high speed slides at a waterpark on the outskirts, public buses to war museums and art galleries, and dark…

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1. Find a reason to do nothing. Vietnam is a fascinating country, and with so many places to go, touts to outsmart and dishes to attempt to order from fully Vietnamese menus, justifying sitting around won't be easy. For a simple way out, try getting…

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  Ko Phi Phi’s beauty is more than emerald water deep – the endless mid afternoom procession that color the back streets of the tourist ghetto highlight this party isle’s fascinating diversity: A man pushing a cart filled with garbage bags. Another pushes backpacks and…

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Or better yet, on the most pleasant surprise of the last four weeks. Trang, our first stop on our tour of the Andaman isles, is a delightful slice of Thai bohemia. But it begins in Hat Yai, our first post Malaysian-Thai border stop where we…

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We found our guesthouse in Kuala Lumpur just as thick drops of rain were beginning to pierce through the sticky heat. This wasn’t our first choice and hardly the only place we looked. But bohemian-inspired Le Village had been boarded up sometime since Lonely Planet…

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