The Great Big Southeast Asia Blog – by Rosa Laos was … tropical. I mean, I didn’t know what I expected, but honestly even from a tropical place, I wasn’t expecting it to be quite so stereotypically tropical. The earth was red, and there was an overwhelming abundance of green wherever you looked. Strange and […]
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We’re on a boat to somewhere… We arrived at the border pa town of Su Ngai Kolok (such a fun name to say out loud) just as the sun was beginning to flex its muscles. We resisted the urge to get on a motorbike taxi…we reckoned we could have sold footage of us flying backwards
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Bombs and Buddhas – Theo’s blog I was 11 when I first became aware of the Vietnam war in 1968/69. News from that terrible conflict, and the anti-war movement in the States, was one of the things that radicalised me early into a teen boy wearing a Mao badge to school and studying the map
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33 degrees 3rd class A minibus, a train, a local bus into the city and we had arrived in the Laos Capital, at Vientiane bus station to be precise. The bus we needed to get to Thailand was practically next to us as we pulled in and a kind taxi driver showed us where we
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Butterflies and Bombs One of the first things I discovered about Laos was that it is pronounced Lao, the ‘s’ isn’t easy to ignore but it did help me stop itching my head every time I thought about where we were… As we settled in to our guesthouse the sun started to go down, quite
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The great blog of China – Rosa’s blog Since finally arriving in China, I can tell you, it is everything I had dreamed it would be. From seeing pictures and hearing stories about this country since I was young, China is just like I had hoped, but also (like most places we’ve been) it’s something
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Onward to Laos The journey from Guilin to Kunming passed in a relatively sedate seven and a half hours. When we arrived at the station Mrs Cheery said, ‘come on guys let’s walk a bit, stretch our legs and get a taxi in a bit!’- downtown Kunming turned out to be deserted… With a population
Zài jiàn Guìlín We said goodbye to Guilin in the rain. It was a sweet farewell to the first place we have called home on our travels…we have lived in Guilin for three weeks and we needed to stop for a while… My rucksack is heavier (Mandarin textbooks!), my butt cheeks are tighter (although more
While friends lay sleeping in the west – Theo’s blog The other night, I was standing on the hotel roof gazing at the moon over Guilin. I thought back in my mind across the land we’d travelled over, visualising what my friends at work in England were doing at that moment. That’s when I realised that, although
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Is it ever black and white? Life is different on a two day sleeper train in China. For a start our compartment companions were a well organised couple who had lots of excellent food in sensible containers and not much luggage. They didn’t speak English and we didn’t speak Mandarin (yet!) but we got on
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