Category: Asia
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SHIRAZ – IRAN
4/7/23 – 5/7/23 After a decent night’s sleep in Arg Hotel’s incredibly hard mattresses (great for supporting your back!), and a quick breakfast at the hotel – tomato omelette for me, an Iranian lentil dish for Dad – and we were off to our first stop of the day, the Pink Mosque. Named for the…
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TEHRAN – IRAN
2/7/2023 – 3/7/2023 Well, today was pretty uneventful! After getting back to Dave Hotel at close to midnight, we knew we only had about an hour and a half before we’d need to head to the airport. After a quick shower, our bags were packed, and we were half asleep on the beds ready to…
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TATEV – ARMENIA
1/7/2023 The Tatev Monastery and the Wings of Tatev ropeway seems to pretty universally considered an integral part of an Armenian itinerary. Given that it’s almost a 5 hour drive away, we decided to join on to a coach trip operated by Hyur Services to visit Tatev, as well as the famous monasteries, Khor Virap…
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VIENTIANE – LAOS
5/2/23 – 8/2/23 I departed from the old Siem Reap International Airport (since been replaced by Siem Reap-Angkor Airport) on a Bangkok Airways ATR-72, bound for Bangkok. Siem Reap didn’t, at least at the time of my visit, have any direct connections with its northern neighbour, Laos, and so I needed to route through Bangkok…
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SIEM REAP – CAMBODIA
2/2/2023 – 5/2/2023 My bus to Siem Reap left from the same place I was dropped off at several days earlier, which meant that at the very least, I wasn’t fumbling around trying to find a bus stop that morning! Whilst my time in Cambodia’s capital had focussed on the country’s more recent (and disturbing)…
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PHNOM PENH – CAMBODIA
31/1/2023 – 2/2/2023 As we drove out of Saigon, the landscape rapidly became less urbanised, and farmland becomes the defining feature of the world outside of the bus windows. The border crossing process was relatively straightforward – the bus dropped us off at Vietnamese exit control, and only a short amount of queuing was required.…
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SAIGON – VIETNAM
28/1/23 – 31/1/23 I finally found my accommodation for my time in Saigon – 60 Inn, located down an alley not far from Tao Dan Park. This accommodation was really well situated and came equipped with a small kitchen – not that I intended to do any cooking! – and the owner, Sonny, was still…
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