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| Total Unique Visitors: 678301 |
| Visitors Out: 1740 |
| Total Visitors Out: 18586 |
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| Nong Khai’s exceptional sculpture park |
| 2012-03-25 08:54:55 |
Hello Feed Subscribers, The post you’re seeing is not visible on Old World Wandering’s home page or in its archives. It is an aside – a fragment of our journey that was interesting, but not a travel story in itself. We plan to post these to our feed and our new Tumblr, because confining ourselves [...]Nong Khai’s exceptional sculpture park is an Overland travel stories » Old World Wandering original...
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| Making a Life in China: A Documentary |
| 2012-03-17 04:23:25 |
An eTV documentary following three South Africans living in Bejing and ShanghaiMaking a Life in China: A Documentary is an Overland travel stories » Old World Wandering original...
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| Hike to Houy Fai Peak |
| 2012-03-12 02:17:27 |
A travel story about a trek in rural Laos, near Luang Prabang, and the fine line that divides tourism from voyeurism.Hike to Houy Fai Peak is an Overland travel stories » Old World Wandering original...
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| Paying Homage to Henri Mouhot |
| 2012-02-13 06:16:57 |
When Henri Mouhot travelled to Luang Prabang, he was the first white man to enter Laos in 25 years. He died beside the Nam Khan, where a tomb stands as a testament to his journey and his journals, "scribbled generally by the light of a torch, and on my knees at the foot of a tree." Paying Homage to Henri Mouhot is an Overland travel stories » Old World Wandering original...
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| Luang Prabang: The Elements of Heritage |
| 2012-01-31 09:09:19 |
Luang Prabang is a riddle that photographs can solve. It is a town popular with tourists and a World Heritage site, but it rarely feels overrun. It is like a sprawling resort in places, with a commerce given over to foreign comforts, but it is not a colony on the Banana Pancake Trail. Instead, Luang [...]Luang Prabang: The Elements of Heritage is an Overland travel stories » Old World Wandering original...
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| An Alternative to Tubing in Vang Vieng |
| 2012-01-23 05:38:43 |
Claire and I went to Vang Vieng to laze in a grove of Edenic green. It was a picture-perfect fantasy, conjured up by a postcard in Vientiane labelled Blue Lagoon, but we were curious too. Vang Vieng was where drug-addled backpackers bobbed downriver in tyre tubes, and its ugly reality did not come as a [...]An Alternative to Tubing in Vang Vieng is an Overland travel stories » Old World Wandering original...
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| Vestiges of the Hippie Trail |
| 2012-01-16 07:04:05 |
Still the world is wondrous large,—seven seas from marge to marge— And it holds a vast of various kinds of man; And the wildest dreams of Kew are the facts of Khatmandhu And the crimes of Clapham chaste in Martaban. Here’s my wisdom for your use, as I learned it when the moose And the [...]Vestiges of the Hippie Trail is an Overland travel stories » Old World Wandering original...
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| Land of the Banana Pancake Eaters |
| 2012-01-05 04:52:28 |
A jaded view of tubing along the Nam Song River in Vang Vieng, Laos, and other bad backpacker behaviour on the Banana Pancake Trail.Land of the Banana Pancake Eaters is an Overland travel stories » Old World Wandering original...
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| Off the Record in Vientiane |
| 2011-12-29 00:43:09 |
A man I met in Vientiane, who spoke eloquently about the city and how it had changed, initially gave short, guarded answers to my questions. When I promised not to quote him, he opened up, but I couldn’t fit what he said into my portrait of the Chinese people changing Laos without either revealing his [...]Off the Record in Vientiane is an Overland travel stories » Old World Wandering original...
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| The Chinese of Vientiane: Part II – A Way of Life |
| 2011-12-18 10:38:41 |
Laos is sparsely populated, with roughly six and a half million people scattered across a wet, mountainous north and marshy south. It covers an only slightly smaller area than the United Kingdom, but compared to its closest neighbours – Thailand, which squeezes 68 million people into a slightly larger space, and Vietnam, which packs in [...]The Chinese of Vientiane: Part II – A Way of Life is an Overland travel stories » Old World Wandering original...
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