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Jump to the full entry & travel map Standley Chasm, Northern Territory, Australia Up earlier and on the road after purchasing a few more supplies from the supermarket and a Cornish pasty from a popular pie store in Alice. We took Larapinta Drive out past the Alice Springs Desert Park. On our way out of town we were past by about 100 motor trikes, sporting bumper stickers saying stuff like ‘Growing old and disgraceful’.

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Surprise stop in Standley Chasm pre- Finke River — Standley Chasm, Northern Territory, Australia

Jump to the full entry & travel map Glendora, California, United States The Fijian Islands are littered with beautiful islands and ringed by beautiful reefs teeming with sea critters! Here’s a video from my trip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brGZKYwsNVM I didn’t want to leave the water. I snorkeled and went kayaking almost everyday! I accidentally deleted a lot of my pics and video. I met an Aussie couple who felt pitty on my and they promised to mail me a video of the the Kava Ceremony when we dropped anchor at one of the local villages on some small island! Thank you to them, I’ll have proof that I was the village chief for a day!

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Snorkeling with my GoPro — Glendora, California, United States

Jump to the full entry & travel map Kowloon, Hong Kong Yunnan Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture’s Song & Dance Troupe will perform a repertoire of Tibetan dance from the idyllic land of Shangri-La in January. Group dances Reba Dance , A Tune on the Ancient Road , The Morning Song , For the Love of the Ancient Tea-Horse Road , Love Dance of Nixi , Achimugua and The Spirit of the Drums will represent Shangri-La’s traditional culture.

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Tibetan dancers to HK — Kowloon, Hong Kong

Jump to the full entry & travel map Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia Drive to Alice Springs. A LONG, LONG JOURNEY, AGAIN DRIVING THROUGH THE NIGHT, Chris got his first kangaroo kill under his belt, so now only Spencer remains out of the kangaroos kill squad. It was another long, arduous drive of over 2000km, I did the final stink and drove us into Alice springs.

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Middle of nowhere — Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

Jump to the full entry & travel map Calgary, Alberta, Canada Hi everyone! Hope you’re all doing well! I know this is WAY overdue, but I’ve finally posted pictures from the rest of our trip! From our last days in New South Wales to New Zealand to the rest of our backpacking travels, they’re all up now! Feel free to browse (they’re attached to their respective blog postings) and we’re sorry it took so long! Things have been crazy busy since we’ve been back in Calgary…and we’re getting ready to head back to NS next week for the holidays, so we’re very excited to see our family and friends! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you! Jill and Brian

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Better late than never! — Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Jump to the full entry & travel map Nelson, South Island, New Zealand Effe snel een berichtje dat ik bij het vorige bericht nog een filmpje heb geupload. Een kapitein genaamd Abel Tasman die in 1642/43 Nieuw-Zeeland ontdekte. Hij werd “welkom” geheten door de Maori met de haka (oorlogsdans).

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er was eens / once upon a time — Nelson, South Island, New Zealand

Jump to the full entry & travel map Litchfield, Northern Territory, Australia Now just the three of us we drove south to camp in Litchfield national park. A beautiful beautiful place we first came across termite mounds about 30 feet high, absolutely massive! Then our first stop was Florence falls, a freshwater plunge pool.

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Litchfield national park and the salty crocodiles — Litchfield, Northern Territory, Australia

Jump to the full entry & travel map Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia Work really is for suckers! It’s always good to get on the road again, this time it was down to Alice to meet Erica who had a conference down there. It is a long way south of Darwin, 1500km to be exact. After filling up the spare 20L jerry can, filling the cooler with ice and loading up the car it was time to get going

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1500km in a day – Darwin to Alice — Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

Jump to the full entry & travel map Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Darwin My first impressions of Darwin were good, its really green and fresh looking, it feels quite modern too. Actually Darwin was completely wiped out in 1974 by Cyclone Tracy and so its only recently been rebuilt

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Darwin and the crazy 70s night out — Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Jump to the full entry & travel map Kalaw, Shan State, Myanmar Day 2 Kalaw – fabulous hotel A real sublime to ridiculous day. Stopped to photograph agrarian workers with their bullock carts and exchanged greetings across the fields – my Burmese is already twice as good as my Thai, i.e 4 words of Burmese – it was a really joyful experience. Drove one and a half hours on the concrete dual carriageway to the new capital (the name of which escapes me) and saw 6 other cars – in both directions, about a dozen motor bikes, no buses, no lorries, 2 tankers watering the saplings down the central reservation and gangs of workers building a foot high retaining wall for said reservation and painting it white and red.

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The Road to Mandalay day 2 — Kalaw, Shan State, Myanmar

Jump to the full entry & travel map Taungoo, Bago, Myanmar Oh how I’ve been itching to use that title!! Burmese internet is very slow, and I can’t even get to Travelpod to do my blog, so our full adventures and pix will have to wait till we’re back in Thailand. These are the edited highlights since leaving Yangon.

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The Road to Mandalay day 1 — Taungoo, Bago, Myanmar

Jump to the full entry & travel map Memphis, Tennessee, United States Before setting off down the Great River Road – which of course has the great acronym of GRR – I went for a little culture. The Laumeier Sculpture park was virtually empty and the works on display were mostly really worthwhile.

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Four States in one day — Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Jump to the full entry & travel map Beijing, Beijing, China Today was another early start with my placement test due to start at 8am. We had to wake up at 6 so that we could leave by 7, which was a little bit of a struggle after the long day yesterday. We luckily caught a taxi in to the university, while I fretted about my upcoming exam

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BLCU Placement Test Day — Beijing, Beijing, China

Lebanese woman jailed for abusing Pinay maid (ABS-CBNNEWS.com) BEIRUT – A Lebanese woman has been sentenced to 15 days in prison after being convicted of beating her Filipina domestic worker, a rare verdict in such cases in Lebanon, the victim’s attorney said on Wednesday. Lebanon to discuss Israeli plans for border town pullout (EARTHtimes.org) Beirut

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Lebanon Crisis Monitor – Lebanese woman jailed for abusing Pinay maid (ABS-CBNNEWS.com)

El Salvador’s national team raises at FIFA ranking (People’s Daily) El Salvadorian soccer team was 32 places up at the year-ending FIFA rankings compared with its initial ranking of the year. According to the final ranking released by the world soccer’s governing body FIFA on Wednesday, El Salvador is 78th, 32 places up compared with

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Latin America – El Salvador’s national team raises at FIFA ranking (People’s Daily)

Mumbai suspect is US double agent, India claims (Daily Telegraph) An American man charged with plotting the attacks on Mumbai was a double agent for both the United States and al-Qaeda terror group Lashkar e Taiba, Indian officials have claimed. India’s suspicion about US caginess over Headley deepens (The Economic Times) India’s suspicion about US

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Terrorism and Insurgency – Mumbai suspect is US double agent, India claims (Daily Telegraph)

Czech-Polish salami war on horizon over EU speciality label (Radio Prague) Now, what do champagne, Roquefort cheese and Melton Mowbray pork pies all have in common? Well, you might not want to eat them all at once for one thing, but more importantly they all enjoy

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Eastern Europe – Czech-Polish salami war on horizon over EU speciality label (Radio Prague)

Rwanda: Central Bank Approves ‘Diaspora Mutual Fund’ The Governor of the Central Bank (BNR), Francois Kanimba, has officially approved the Rwanda Diaspora Mutual Fund and licensed it to operate. Kenya Gives Road Contract to Switzerland’s SBI, World Bank Says (Bloomberg) Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) — Kenya awarded Switzerland-based SBI International

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African News Update – Rwanda: Central Bank Approves ‘Diaspora Mutual Fund’

India’s Tata Motors denies interest in Swaraj Mazda (Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News) MUMBAI, Dec 16 (Reuters) – Tata Motors , India’s leading vehicle maker, on Wednesday denied it had any interest in acquiring a stake in Indian truck and bus maker Swaraj Mazda . India making efforts for release of fishermen from Pak custody

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India – India’s Tata Motors denies interest in Swaraj Mazda (Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News)

U.S. ramps up aerial spying for Afghan surge (Reuters via Yahoo! News) The United States will deploying new “eyes in the sky” surveillance technology next year in Afghanistan to back President Barack Obama’s surge of 30,000 additional forces, a top Air Force official said on Wednesday. Taliban sneak past Marines in southern Afghanistan (MalaysiaNews.net) The

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Afghanistan – U.S. ramps up aerial spying for Afghan surge (Reuters via Yahoo! News)