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| My route through South East Asia |
The South of Thailand |
Malysia |
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| Singapore |
The North of Thailand |
Laos |
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| Vietnam |
Japan |
Looking down at Patong beach |
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| My co-resident |
The fishing fleet at Hua Hin |
My guide |
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| Centre of Ko Phi Phi |
The other beach |
Maya beach |
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| Leading to Maya beach |
A tame monkey |
An island off Ko Phi Phi |
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| Ko Phi Phi |
Sunset at Ko Phi Phi |
One of the beaches |
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| And all three together |
Picking Coconuts |
At a market |
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| A precarious rope bridge |
Lots of green |
Lots more green |
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| And some red |
Gwen and Jo having breakfast |
Count down to a ticket |
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| Raffles hotel |
Central Singapore |
Old and new |
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| The Singapore river and business centre |
My luxury accommodation |
A Hindu temple |
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| From a different angle |
This didn't happen |
The Petronas Towers |
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| Sultan Abdul Samed building at night |
Looking down at the Petronas Towers from the KL tower |
A motorway service station |
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| The National Monument |
Sultan Abdul Samed building in the early evening |
Central KL from the KL tower |
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| A weird sculpture |
The place where the two muddy estuaries meet. |
Masjid Jamek mosque |
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| Sultan Abdul Samed building during the day |
KL railway station |
Lunch - meat curry with rice served on a bamboo leaf plate |
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| Georgetown at dusk |
A Hindu temple at Ayer Itam |
Complete with turtles |
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| Georgetown and the mainland as seen from Penang hill |
Interesting street decorations |
A mosque in penang |
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| On the way to Samui |
The beach by my bungalow |
A guard dog? |
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| Phanom Rung |
The pathway to the wat |
Slakaewkoo (Sculpture park) |
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| The wheel of life |
More Statues |
Sunset over the Mekong |
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| More Statues |
More Statues |
Ooh Falang! |
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| Sunset again |
A snake with a frog at the Mut Mee guest house |
Dusk over the Mekong at Nong Khai |
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| Kids playing on a sandbank |
A Buddha in an unfinished wat |
Another Statue |
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| The bungalows at Songkhai |
Cookery class |
Over the Mekong to Laos |
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| The ferry port |
Mother and daughter at Pakbeng |
Villagers checking on the falangs |
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| That's a water buffalo |
The market in Pakbeng |
Roger the cabinboy checks the bags |
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| Small Children in Pakbeng |
Cross-river transport in Luang Prabang |
A gang of us in a tuk tuk |
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| Monks at Kuang Si falls |
Water buffalo cooling off |
Making sugar cane juice |
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| Looking up at Wat Xieng Thong |
Looking down from Wat Xieng Thong |
Luang Prabang bus station |
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| Vandi, Ali, Rauli and Sam at Kuang Si falls |
Crossing the river |
A monk contemplates the falls |
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| Another wat |
The war has begun |
Vang Vieng and region |
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| Off to some caves |
Ali and Jennifer inside a cave |
Sian, Jon, Andrew, Nicki, Marie, Jennifer and Ali |
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| Skinny dipping or having a wash? |
Sunset in Vang Vieng |
Sunset in Vang Vieng |
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| The Vang Vieng Liberation Front |
The Victory monument |
Look at rule 10 |
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| The Buddha park |
A somewhat bedraggled Marie struggles with a coconut |
The Victory monument from another angle |
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| Nobody gets away dry |
The Buddha park |
Ali and Marie and a gargoyle |
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| Armed with talcolm powder |
Jon, Marie and Ali sniping from the victory monument |
That's a live pig |
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| Me, Jon, Marie and Ali freshly decked out |
The ultimate water party |
Ganging up on passers by |
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| My potential bride is on the right |
Ali dances with her |
More whiskey, more dancing |
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| Ali gets in the spirit |
Don't we make a lovely couple |
Andy looking well out of it, as does everyone else. |
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| The City wall |
In the forbidden city |
Hordes of cyclists |
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| The forbidden city |
The forbidden city |
Rush hour in Hue |
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| A banana seller |
A fish seller |
The forbidden city |
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| The forbidden city |
The climax to the city celebrations |
Along the river |
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| The forbidden city |
The forbidden city |
A bottle opener |
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| A US memorial |
A bombed church |
Kids playing opposite the smaller Tam Tam |
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| The Japanese bridge |
Renate, Becky, Dan and Ali |
Propaganda |
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| Tour operators |
A narrow street |
A little bit of France |
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| Chris and Ali being rowed down the river |
Renate, Dan and Becky, doing likewise |
Working buffalo on the way to the beach |
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| By the river |
Between Hue and Hoi An |
Fishermen at China Beach |
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| The Japanese bridge |
Rush hour |
Hoi An market |
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| North of Nha Trang |
Paul |
Paul, Sophie and Chris |
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| Hungry kids wait for Mama Hahn's leftovers |
and feast on them |
Becky, Chris and Dan on Mama Hahn's boat |
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| Po Nagar |
Thu takes a nap |
The infamous Mama Hahn |
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| Blue Diving Club |
Temple in central Hanoi |
The Temple of Literature |
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| Street merchants |
Ho Chi Minh's masauleum |
Gargoyles |
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| Combing for nits |
Another part of the Temple of Literature |
A temple by the West Lake |
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| Hoan Kiem lake |
Black Hmong kids |
Hills around Sapa |
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| Intrepid trekkers at a waterfall |
Flower Hmong kids |
Black Hmong kids |
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| Hills around Sapa |
Black Hmong woman at work |
Sound dudes! |
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| Sales conference |
Irrigation at a Red Zao village |
Working the hills |
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| Making good use of a buffalo |
Flower Hmong woman |
Islands on the way to Catba |
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| Islands on the way to Catba |
John, Andrew, Claire and Wendy waiting for the ride back to Hanoi |
Islands on the way to Catba |
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| Pirates? |
Outside the Yasaka-Jinja shrine. |
A wishing tree - bad fortunes are left here to bring good luck. |
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| The Leaping Tiger Garden at the Nanzen-Ji Temple . |
Karen, Michele and Jayne in Cafe Zinho. |
The tori (gate) to the Yasaka-Jinja shrine at Maruyama Park. |
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| A beer vending machine. Unfortunately it closes at 11pm. |
A high-tech Japanese toilet. |
Michele, Karen, Maki and Jayne at an Indian restaurant. |
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| CK Cafe's strange admission prices. |
Tokyo at night. |
A love hotel. |
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| Three huge video screens outside Shibuya station. |
An incongruous wooden building in the city. |
Sleeping quarters in a capsule hotel. |
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| This was my bed for the night. |
The shopping arcade leading to a temple. |
A Pagoda. |
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| The temple. |
The gate house for the imperial palace. |
Looking at the memorial from the museum. |
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| A surviving building from near the epicentre of the blast. |
Another memorial. |
Jayne in a kimono |