Teeming.Congested.Growing Travelling to Jakarta I was expecting us to find a huge, sprawling dirty mega metropolis brimming over with people, cars and rubbish. Of course like many huge cities in Asia, it is all of those things as well as being the most densely populated city on one of the most densely populated islands in […]
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I think I often place too much emphasis on the journey and not on the destination when describing our travels but from our point of view the journey has to be as important as the destination or I would have got tired of this travelling malarky 6 months ago. The journey from Yangon (Rangoon) to
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Frenetic.Condensed.Revered. Travelling from Kyaiktiyo to Yangon provided us with our first taster of the Myanmar train service. It was a little delayed but we got big comfy seats with lots of leg room, the only problem is it was very hot and very slow. However this did give us the opportunity to gaze at the
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Stifling.Serene.Anticipative. Having had our fill of sleepless over night coach journeys we splashed out and got ourselves a couple of sleeping berths on the Chiang Mai over night express from Bangkok. Despite an early problem which set us back 2 hours and had us change carriages twice at Hua Lamphong we arrived fresh and well
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