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TravBuddy.com: neilpashley's The World (May 08 to May 09) travel blog</title>
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<description>20 May (Land in Lima, Peru) About 2.5  mths in SA (Peru, Argentina, Uraguay and Brazil) before flying to New Zealand at the beginning of August. We spend about 6 weeks there before flying to Melbourne, Australia. We&apos;re in Oz for about 5.5 mths travelling all the way up the East Coast to Cairns. Then we fly to Bangkok in Feb 09 to finish our trip in SE Asia (Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia before finishing in Hong Kong)</description>
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<title>Malaysia, Perth (Australia) &amp; Hong Kong</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:52:18 PST</pubDate>
<description>Malaysia, Perth (Australia) &amp; Hong Kong</description>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Malaysia-travel-guide-c209">Malaysia</a>, Apr 24, 2009</p>
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April 24th - We checked out about 8am and had ourfree breakfast of toast and tea. We both also left a bag of stuff that we wouldn&apos;t be needing for th&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Vietnam, Malaysia</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:39:04 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Malaysia-travel-guide-c209">Malaysia</a>, Apr 23, 2009</p>
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April 17th - We were picked up at our hotel at 8am in a minibus and taken to the office where we booked the trip so we could leave our big backpacks &amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Vietnam</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:36:28 PST</pubDate>
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March 23rd - We were up and checked out by 7am and Glyn, the owner gave us a lift to the airport. Our flight was at 8.35am, back to Bangkok! We arriv&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>LAOS (Vientiane, Vang Viene, Luang Prabang, Vang Viene, Vientiane) &amp; Udon Thani (Thailand)</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:32:57 PST</pubDate>
<description>LAOS (Vientiane, Vang Viene, Luang Prabang, Vang Viene, Vientiane) &amp; Udon Thani (Thailand)</description>
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2nd March - The alarm went off at 4am and we&apos;d both had a bad nights sleep and both didn&apos;t feel great. Neil still had a bad stomach and even consider&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Bangkok, Koh Samui, Koh Phangnan, Ko Tao </title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:51:41 PST</pubDate>
<description>Bangkok, Koh Samui, Koh Phangnan, Ko Tao </description>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Bangkok-travel-guide-632148">Bangkok, Thailand</a>, Feb 20, 2009</p>
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February 15th - Last night we arrived after midnight to our guest house and went straight to bed.&amp;nbsp; The guest house was called Roof View Place an&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Bangkok, Chang Mai</title>
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February 8th - We both had&amp;nbsp; a bit of a lie in and then just ate&amp;nbsp;and chilled out around the guest house until a tuk tuk took us to the airpo&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Bangkok, Phuket, Phi Phi, Koh Samui, Koh Pangnan &amp; Siem Reap, Phnom Penh, Sihanoukville </title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:03:08 PST</pubDate>
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January 15th - We were up and made use of the free breakfast in the hotel. We then caught the Sky train to Siam Square in the centre of Bangkok and y&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Melbourne, Mount Martha</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:55:47 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Melbourne-travel-guide-155576">Melbourne, Australia</a>, Jan 20, 2009</p>
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January 5th - We got up after a bit of&amp;nbsp;lie in and then drove to Chapel Street which is the trendy part of town with lots of vintage shops and ex&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Melbourne</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:46:24 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Melbourne-travel-guide-155576">Melbourne, Australia</a>, Dec 30, 2008</p>
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December 29th - We&amp;nbsp; got up quite late and then we decided to go for a walk to the beach.&amp;nbsp; Andrew had told us it was a 20 minute walk, but i&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Melbourne, Terang</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:04:53 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Melbourne-travel-guide-155576">Melbourne, Australia</a>, Dec 23, 2008</p>
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December 15th - We both managed to sleep for a couple of hours on our overnight bus to Melbourne.&amp;nbsp; We arrived at 8am.&amp;nbsp; From here we were go&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Sydney, Cairns, Canberra</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:55:12 PST</pubDate>
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November 28th - We landed back in Sydney about 9.30am and got our bags quickly. We went to book a shuttle bus in to the city and decided to book a re&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Sydney, Darwin</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:52:40 PST</pubDate>
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November 20th - After a horrible flight for Neil (because of his Bali belly) spending most of it on the toilet, we landed about 7am.&amp;nbsp; Once Neil &amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Sydney, Bali</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:27:35 PST</pubDate>
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November 5th - After a busy afternoon shopping we caught a shuttle bus to the airport at about 3pm for our 5.35pm flight to Denpasar Bali.&amp;nbsp; We w&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Brisbane, Coolangatta, Byron Bay, Coffs Harbour, Port Macquarie, Sydney</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:20:30 PST</pubDate>
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October 9th - We got up today and checked out of Bunk hostel and no more bites so hopefully the problem had been solved! To save money on taxis we ca&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Cairns, Townsville, Airlie Beach, Whitsundays, Bundaberg, Hervey Bay, Fraser Island, Noosa, Brisbane</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 03:09:06 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Australia-travel-guide-c2">Australia</a>, Sep 21, 2008</p>
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September 18th - We got up for our bus at 6am to catch our flight to Sydney at 8.50am and then a flight on to Cairns. We arrived at Sydney at lunchti&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Queenstown, Wanaka, Franz Jozef, Christchurch, Picton, Wellington, Auckland</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:07:27 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/New-Zealand-travel-guide-c220">New Zealand</a>, Sep 07, 2008</p>
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September 4th - We got up and checked out of the camp by 10am, we parked up in the car park for a bit and got showered making the most of the facilit&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Christchurch, Omaru, Dunedin, Te Anau, Milford Sound and Queenstown</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:07:15 PST</pubDate>
<description>Christchurch, Omaru, Dunedin, Te Anau, Milford Sound and Queenstown</description>
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August 25th - After a restless night sleep in our dorm as a man was snoring very loudly (not Neil!)&amp;nbsp; we got up at 6am to catch our 8am ferry to &amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>New Zealand - Auckland, Rotorua, Taupo, Napier &amp; Wellington (North Island)</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:59:15 PST</pubDate>
<description>New Zealand - Auckland, Rotorua, Taupo, Napier &amp; Wellington (North Island)</description>
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August 11th - We landed at Auckland at 4am after a long 13 hour flight, they only showed a couple of films and there were not personal screens in the&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Santiago - The end of South America</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:20:38 PST</pubDate>
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August 6th - We were picked up by the taxi at 3.30am and made our way to the airport. We checked in quite quickly and our bags were checked all the w&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and Morro de Sao Paulo</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:09:08 PST</pubDate>
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July 24th - We got up up at about 10am and had the breakfast which was the same as yesterday.&amp;nbsp; Unfortunatley it was cloudy today, as we were goi&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Rio de Janeiro and Ilha Grande</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:53:29 PST</pubDate>
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July 17th - We got up and went to the bus station to catch our 1pm bus to Rio. We got on at 1.30pm and it was full.&amp;nbsp; Emma was sat in front of Ne&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Puerto Iguazu and Foz de Iguazu</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:26:32 PST</pubDate>
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July 9th - Last night we had a mexican night in the hostel, there were about 18 of us and we ate fajitas and drank lots of tequila.&amp;nbsp; It was good&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Mendoza and Cordoba</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:36:03 PST</pubDate>
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June 29th - Last night Neil had the remaining 6 beers and liked them all.&amp;nbsp; Emma felt a bit left out so she ordered a bellini (not really a trave&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Montevideo, Buenos Aires and Bariloche</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:29:29 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Buenos-Aires-travel-guide-145260">Buenos Aires, Argentina</a>, Jun 28, 2008</p>
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We spent 2 nights in montevideo at the Splendido hostel.&amp;nbsp; The hostel was big but there was no one there for us to talk to!&amp;nbsp; It did have a g&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Buenos Aires and Uruguay</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:43:16 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Montevideo-travel-guide-1199868">Montevideo, Uruguay</a>, Jun 18, 2008</p>
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On the 11th June we got up at 3.45am to catch our flight for 7am to go to Buenos Aires.&amp;nbsp; We were very tired!&amp;nbsp; The flight was really good &amp;hellip;</p>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:14:07 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Puno and the Floating Islands</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:28:33 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Lima-travel-guide-1308247">Lima, Peru</a>, Jun 09, 2008</p>
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After booking our bus in Cusco, we took a 7 hour journey to Puno.&amp;nbsp;The bus didn´t seem to take that long...we think it was because there was o m&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>We Survived The Inca Trail!</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:45:29 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Preparing for the Inca Trail</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 15:13:38 PST</pubDate>
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Weve been in Cusco since saturday and it is a quality place, one of the highest cities in the world we are told, wemust be staying at about 1&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Saturday Morning</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 08:29:15 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Lima-travel-guide-1308247">Lima, Peru</a>, May 24, 2008</p>
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Hi everyone,
We´re just sitting in the hostel waiting for a taxi to pick us up at 10.30am, to take us to the airport.
Next stop Cusco!
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<title>We´ve Arrived</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 18:10:06 PST</pubDate>
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Hi all,
After a long days travelling today we arrived in Lima, Peru local time at 6pm. We´ve arrived at the hostel which is excellent, quite a few &amp;hellip;</p>
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