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Preview of Littlewiggle's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/littlewiggle/new_beginnings/1216626060/tpod.html This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Subiaco, Perth, Australia Entry Title: "Rough Asia Itinerary" Entry: "Well surprise surprise my plans have changed some what since the last time I wrote my blog. Not quite our fault this time though. By the time we had all saved the $900 for the Broome to Darwin tour, it managed to get fully booked. How annoying. All the other plans are set in stone though so can't really change those. I think what we will do now is get on the Greyhound bus in Broome and go straight to Darwin and then do a few days tour of Kakadu National Park instead. Then I will be back in time to go south to Ayres Rock. The good news is me and Katie are now doing Ayres Rock together (wooo hooo). We then spend one more night in Darwin and then head fly over to Singapore together where we spend one night and then head up through Malaysia to Kuala Lumpur ready to fly straight out to Bali for a week. It is Carly's birthday on 8th September and I've sold her on the idea of spending it in Bali, so we're all now flying over there for a week. Well, Hannah and Carly actually leave Australia on 27th August so they will already be there, Katie and I will join them on 4th September. After Bali, Hannah and Carly fly home :-( and Katie and I jump on a ferry over to Java; the main Indonesian Island, where we will trek across to Jakarta; which is the capital. From Jakarta we will fly to Bangkok. Once in Bangkok, we will have a lot of sorting out to do, like getting Visa's arranged for various countries and sorting out itineraries for said countries. Whilst our visas are being processed we will head north to Chiang Mai to view the oldest temples in Thailand and probably some jungle trekking. Then slightly west to a place called Pai, which has been recommended to us by one of Katie's friends who actually lived there for a few years. Apparently it used to be a small village but I think tourism is slowly taking over and the backpackers are flocking in. There are elephant camps, waterfalls and hot springs just outside the town which I am sure we'll visit and it looks like we'll be staying in a little tree house on stilts above the water for approximately 50p per night. Its expensive this Asia travelling you know!! We aim to spend about a week to 10 days exploring the north of Thailand. Then back to Bangkok to collect our passports and visa's and then on to Laos for tubing!! Tubing is becoming one of the highlights of Laos! You start at the top of a lazy river with a donut inflatable ring and literally glide all the way down a river. Along the river bank are little bars (well stall's that sell alcohol), if you want to stop, you put your hand up and they pull you in by a stick! You then sit there for as long as you like drinking beer/wine and get free shots of 'Lao Lao', which is some sort of nasty red wine. Apparently there are loads of swings and jumps off the side into the water you can do or you can just lay in your ring, lapping up the sunshine and watching everyone else belly flop and make a fool of themselves!! It looks like soooo much fun. One of the girls I met in Sydney has done it a few times, she said you just meet so many people and end up going out with them in the evenings! We're looking at spending about 2 weeks in Laos I think, before we head off to Vietnam. A couple of weeks going all the way through Vietnam and then entering Cambodia. Probably wont spend too long in Cambodia, I want to see all the killing fields and where Tomb Raider (Angkor Wat Temple) was filmed and obviously the infamous budda statue but that's about it. So probably about a week (ish) for that and then back into Thailand. We will then visit the south islands of Thailand like Puket (where the ..." Read and see more at: http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/littlewiggle/new_beginnings/1216626060/tpod.html Photos from this trip: 1. "Angkor Wat Temple" 2. "Bangkok City" 3. "Burj Al Arab - Dubai's 7* Hotel, only 1K per night" 4. "Camobia Killing Fields" 5. "Chiang Mai, Thailand" 6. "Dubai Creek" 7. "Hot Springs - Pai, Thailand" 8. "James Bond Islands - Thailand" 9. "Krabi - Thailand" 10. "Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia" 11. "Kuta Beach - where we are staying in Bali" 12. "Laos" 13. "Laos Tubing" 14. "Laos Tubing Again" 15. "Malaysia" 16. "Pai" 17. "Palm Island - Dubai" 18. "Phi Phi (where The Beach was filmed)" 19. "Phuket - Thailand" 20. "The World Islands - Dubai" 21. "Tomb Raider Temple (Angkor...

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