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| REALLY at the Beach, Ko Phi Phi Style |
| 2008-06-30 06:18:27 |
If you can remember as far back as my last post (bad blogger! Bad!), you’d know I had got as far as Phuket on my round the houses trip south through Thailand to either Koh Phi Phi or Koh Lanta.
That was a month ago, give or take a sunny day or two.
After just a couple [...]...
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| Coffee, Sweat, and Travel Roulette |
| 2008-05-30 08:34:22 |
Seldom in life do things run as smoothly as you‘d like. But hey, where would we be without the odd challenge casually tossed in our path? Probably where we'd initially to have ended up, thats where....
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| “ …Cheap Ticket to Krabi! VIP Bus! Good for You!” |
| 2008-05-30 08:25:29 |
The Bangkok-Surat Thani train journey ends. Stepping from the train signifies the end of my current, concrete plan. Where do I go from here? What’s the best way to get there? And, more importantly, will this dude ever stop following me?...
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| Site Update: Time to Trim Away the Fat |
| 2008-05-26 03:36:01 |
The words ‘streamlining’, ‘cutbacks’ and ‘reorganisation’ are all too common these days, and despite sitting here gaily tapping away - my workstation a laptop on a pair of sweaty legs, my suit and tie a pair of sunbleched pants with the ass hanging out – Ubertramp.com will also soon succumb to a vicious round of [...]...
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| (Lack of) Travel Plan: Update |
| 2008-05-25 02:47:34 |
With so many new travel destinations right on my doorstep, I feel like a kiddie in a sweet shop. Although getting to all these places shouldn’t be too difficult, it seems that making a firm travel plan is....
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| Not Your Average Garden Party |
| 2008-05-23 23:40:46 |
Still closing the distance on that bridge, I got sidetracked yet again. What was in that big, white tent?...
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| Bangkok Street Food |
| 2008-05-22 05:26:51 |
With the appetite now back with a vengeance, it's high time to sniff out some street eats.
...If you're easily offended, skip this post....
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| Postcard from Bangkok |
| 2008-05-19 10:03:58 |
It’s funny how quickly things can change in the space of one week.
Sunday just gone I was sitting at home, catching up on the latest adventures of other folks by way of their travel journals with excitement but also (if I dare admit it) a little envy, too. In my eyes, vicarious travel is a [...]...
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| Community Awards – April ‘08 |
| 2008-05-01 04:43:03 |
At the moment we have 2 monthly awards up for grabs in recognition of just some of the great stuff that Ubertrampers are contributing to the community.
The April’s Article of the Month award went to Somkid for his honest and straight talking article on How to Avoid Tourist Scams in Bangkok. More of his work [...]...
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| Back on Track! |
| 2008-04-28 14:47:40 |
I know it’s been a while since my last post, so here’s a quick update on the latest happenings within the ubertramp.com world of webgeekery.
In short, ubertramp is finally going great guns again and is all systems go – and, right now, I must thank all the readers who’ve been popping back from time [...]...
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| Host Changeover |
| 2008-03-20 08:37:46 |
Due to our current host awardspace.com offering such a poor value package and being populated by the most obnoxious, unhelpful ’support’ team on the face of the planet, we are delighted to be parting company and moving to another host. Unfortunately, due to my rather miniscule knowledge of how all this works, I’m sure [...]...
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| Google, I Know my Place |
| 2008-03-09 11:51:46 |
'Step away from the keyboard! ...Put the mouse down and come out slowly...'
I suppose I already knew, but I can now confirm that baaaaaad things can happen when you decide to 'tinker with the site'. Still, the phrase 'omelettes and eggs' comes to mind...but so does 'tears before bedtime'......
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| Wetter and Wilder: Impossible Thrills in El Salvador |
| 2008-01-27 09:00:40 |
In tourist terms, El Salvador is a member of an increasingly exclusive club: it’s one of a handful of countries so readily accessible yet almost completely overlooked - and with safety becoming less of an issue it’s no longer just for the bold. El Salvador has much to offer the backpacker, as I found out by way of an eco-tour with a difference....
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| Links to Cheap Flights, Deals and Special Offers – Direct from the Airlines |
| 2007-12-06 11:20:36 |
One great way to secure your next cheap flight is by cutting out the middle men and dealing directly with the individual airlines and operators and taking advantage of their current special offers and promotions. But understanding just how time consuming this can be, I've put together a list of major airlines by region linking straight to their curret special deals/promotions pages. It's an ongoing task, so feel free to bookmark it and drop by from time to time to check for updates....
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| 5 Good Reasons to Travel with MORE than One Bag |
| 2007-12-01 04:49:43 |
Why on earth would someone want to carry more bags than they can get away with? Surely, a light backpacker is a happier backpacker? Not any more...
There are a whole heap of reasons why extra baggage, or Multiple Bag Syndrome, is a good thing - and here are just 5 of them....
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| Couches, Couches Everywhere and Now a Place to Sleep! |
| 2007-11-29 18:38:13 |
Thanks to a handful of increasingly popular hospitality exchange websites there's now a new way to make friends and backpack for less - in fact, it could be a whole new way to travel. Increase your couch karma and get with the program!...
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| Backpacking Tips: How to Hide Money on your Person |
| 2007-11-28 08:06:58 |
Sometimes when backpacking you’ll have no option but to carry precious items around with you, so it’s essential that we protect these as best we can. Our money and cards feed us, house us and even buy us beer. And since money belts have already been covered, here are some backpacking tips and ideas to highlight some of the other ways you can protect your valuables when out and about....
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| Hidden Money Belts |
| 2007-11-24 12:44:08 |
Today we're talking hidden money belts. We explore the different types of money belts on offer, give the pros and cons of each and share tips on how backpackers can use their concealed money belts more effectively....
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| Backpacking Las Vegas…Cheaply |
| 2007-11-22 15:46:25 |
Want to visit Las Vegas but are afraid it'll crucify the budget? If this is so, a post highlighting the cheaper side of 'Lost Wages' should come as welcome news. With info and links highlighting cheap accomodation, cheap eats and cheap thrills in Las Vegas, backpackers can now love it (or hate it), too!...
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| Download European City Guides - For Free! |
| 2007-11-15 18:05:28 |
This week, the spotlight is on great giveaways for backpackers in Europe: Inyourpocket.com are offering European city guides - they're top notch and free to download!. It's super news for backpackers on a tight budget (read: too cheap to buy a Europe travel guidebook!) and a great way to both lighten the backpack and experience life after Lonely Planet....
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| The Camel Man of Erg Chebbi |
| 2007-10-09 18:22:37 |
...there must have been a subtle art to getting these headscarves to sit correctly. We, however, were as yet unable to master it. The result of our first bungled attempts were definitely less Saharan Nomad and more, say, George Formby with severe head trauma. But we didn’t care; these were the real deal and would afford us at least a little protection from the rigours of the desert - even if we did look like we had just failed a first aid course. As far as we were concerned, we were good to go....
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| Desert Dreams and Harsh Realities |
| 2007-10-03 23:23:42 |
...These rudimentary, single story dwellings – each barely the square footage of a large western bedroom – squat stoically under a fierce Sahara sun. But despite their meagre stature, here they are sky scrapers - for around them is little else. Here, in this landscape so consistently void of feature, even a mud hut stands like a giant......
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| Into the Sahara Desert |
| 2007-10-02 12:37:05 |
...In short, the whole landscape just appeared to be, well, bare and desolately sterile, or at least so it seemed at the time. Throughout the journey we were privy to a swiftly moving array of sand, rocks, a few more rocks, and then a bit more sand. Apart from the odd (and distinctly lost looking) shrub here and there, it all seemed so completely void of life. I’ve seen more living things in a single squat toilet cubicle......
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| Moroccan Grand Taxis |
| 2007-10-02 12:31:50 |
...Grand Taxis can generally be identified by their silver or white bodies and black roofs, and by the blacked out rear windshield, funky carpeted dashboards, dysfunctional windows, and wide and varied selection of missing door handles. A Full Grand Taxi, however, can usually be identified by the sea of melancholic, compressed faces, all unforgivingly wedged against the inside of the windows, or, alternatively......
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| Er Rachidia and a Shameless Plug |
| 2007-10-02 12:27:23 |
If you like middle of the road, backwater towns, you’d love Er Rachidia. Now I’m not complaining, on the contrary, I did like Er Rachidia. It had all the infrastructure that makes for a decent stopover. It was low key in a rather pleasant and undemanding kind of way, the town was billiard table flat [...]...
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| The Tanneries of Fes |
| 2007-09-22 19:24:06 |
The commotion that was last night’s sea of pedestrians soon petered out; the alleyways, only a little wider than those of Chefchaouen, quickly became a more manageable affair once we had moved further from Bab el-Mahrouk, one of the main arteries into and out of Fes el-Bali. The downturn in traffic proved quite fortunate, as [...]...
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| Fes, Pots, and Palin |
| 2007-09-20 23:34:22 |
Many years ago, I recall watching Micheal Palin on TV. It was during one of his many incredible solo journeys into wild and unreachable distant lands, a journey, as always, fastidiously documented by his legion of BBC cameramen, sound technicians, and luggage monkeys....
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| Doin’ the Fes Shuffle |
| 2007-09-19 14:21:58 |
Moving on from Chefchaouen proved utterly painless. Within an hour of our gentle amble down the hill and to the station, we were on a bus and, by nightfall, were once again battling our way through the heart of another Medina - this time, approximately 4 hours and 120 km or so further south - [...]...
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