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Category: Asia Oct 2013

Low Cost Asia Trip Reports

I’m not over my last holiday. Still haven’t got my old sleeping patterns back. I think it’s because I’ve still been busy writing up trip reports, this time focussing on the aviation aspect for Airliners.net. Low Cost Asia 2.1: AirAsiaX SYD-KUL-SIN Low Cost Asia 2.2: Jetstar SIN-KIX J in a Typhoon Low Cost Asia 2.3:… Read more

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November 1, 2013

Asia 2013, Asia Oct 2013, Flying

Jetstar
Red flight home

The tenth flight in eleven days. Yet another very early morning and another long taxi ride to the airport. We watched four Australian tourists from cram into a little red and yellow taxi, their big cases poking out of a boot held down with an ocky strap and we glad again that we had packed… Read more

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October 15, 2013

Asia Oct 2013, Flying

Australia, Malaysia
The three little piggies in KL

Once upon a time there were three little pigs. Even though they were little pigs they still ate halal food because they were such little piggies that they couldn’t stop eating. And eating. And eating. Honestly, what else is there to do in Malaysia except eat? Sure, you can probably throw a few activities up… Read more

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October 13, 2013

Asia Oct 2013

Malaysia
Cancelled, confused and Kuala Lumpur

Another early flight, another crazy connection. It’s time to say goodbye to beautiful Hoi An, fly back to Ho Chi Minh City and then onwards to Malaysia. A hotel car drives us to Da Nang Airport as the orange sun peeks above the tropical clouds. Da Nang shows signs of recent development. There are golf… Read more

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October 12, 2013

Asia Oct 2013, Flying

Jetstar, Malaysia
Bikes and beaches

Yesterday it was planes, trains and automobiles. Today it was bicycles. I would like to say that I slept in, but Alex awoke far too early for that. When B eventually woke we had a Western/Vietnamese buffet breakfast at the hotel. Then we decided to do something we haven’t done in a decade or more;… Read more

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October 11, 2013

Asia Oct 2013

Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh to Hoi An

The easy way to get to Hoi An from Ho Chi Minh City is to fly to Danang then go via car for the final leg. Then there’s my way. We had to wake at 5.30 am to get ready for a 6.15 departure from the hotel. A hotel car took us the few kilometres… Read more

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October 11, 2013

Asia Oct 2013, Flying

Trains, Vietnam
Good afternoon Vietnam!

Here at last in our newest new country, Vietnam. So far, so good, though about the first thing that happened to us was to be ripped off by a taxi driver. But the hotel fixed that up and made the guy return the extra cash. The dong is such a silly currency both in name… Read more

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October 9, 2013

Asia Oct 2013

Ho Chi Minh City, Jetstar, Saigon, Singapore, Vietnam
Osaka to Singapore in two parts

Exhaustion, fear and sadness. I have experienced all these today. The late night’s have caught up with me, there is sadness at leaving Japan and fear of a turbulent flight and of the unknown of Vietnam. Right now I want to curl up somewhere comfortable and familiar. Where’s my sense of adventure? Final days in… Read more

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October 8, 2013

Asia Oct 2013, Flying

Jetstar, Singapore, Taiwan
Rusty Waters and Terrific Toys

When demanding to return to Japan Alex insisted on onsens. The Kansai area is not particularly well known for its onsens, but I did find that one of Japan’s most ancient onsens does lie close by at Arima, just over the mountains from Kobe and that it has retained a reputation as a well preserved… Read more

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October 7, 2013

Asia Oct 2013

onsens, Osaka
The saga is complete

I think I’ve finally done it. I’ve travelled along all the public lengths of the Sanin line. Didn’t I complete that last trip? No, there was one stretch, an old stretch no longer traversed by normal trains, that remained. And now I’ve ridden along it. The photo that won me the Jetstar voucher that paid… Read more

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October 6, 2013

Asia Oct 2013

Kyoto, Osaka, railways

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