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0Luang Prabang: Kuang Si waterfall

Beautiful spot about 45 minutes out of Luang Prabang via a narrow windy road. ...
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0Beautiful spot about 45 minutes out of Luang Prabang via a narrow windy road. ...
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0Luang Prabang is an incredible place and somewhere I'd love to return to. Luang Prabang is in central Laos where the Nam Kha river meets the Mekong. Architecturally a mix of Lao Buddhist wats (templates) and French colonial architecture the town is listed as a world heritage site by UNESCO. The town has a very laid-back feel. Saffron-clad monks carrying umbrellas mix with tuk tuk drivers, motorbikes with a mum, dad, child and a sack of rice on them, locals selling their wares at market stalls...
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0Due to timing of our connecting flights to Laos we ended up spending two days in Kuala Lumpur. We were jetlagged and it was really hot and sticky. ...
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0Air Asia often offers cheap flights between London and Kuala Lumpur (and KL and Australia). As part of Air Asia's pricing model you get the tickets cheap by trading off on other things. Here's what to expect if you fly this route with them. Stansted You leave London from Stansted Airport (rather than Heathrow or Gatwick). First you have to get to Stansted, which you can do on the Stansted Express train from Liverpool St. Takes about 45 minutes. Not cheap - £19.80 adults/£10 kids. You can ...
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0Borough Market is a huge food market that runs on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. It's full of delicious food and produce - cheeses, meat, seafood, vegetables, olives - and is a great place for lunch (if you can choose what to get). ...
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0Yes, it's big and quite scary. Yes, you have to queue up for ages to get on. Yes, the view's pretty good. ...
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0Our time in London coincided with half-term school holidays so the Science and Natural History museums we visited on a rainy day were packed. Still great though (you really need a day for each), and we got to catch up with Tim, Alicia and Jirra and compare notes. We stayed at the YHA London Central in Bolsover St which was great - central, clean, friendly with a good cheap cafe on the ground floor. Needs some tea towels in the kitchen though... One super-touristy but really fun thing we di...
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0Maison Bertaux is a great quirkly little French cafe/patisserie in Greek St Soho. A higgledy piggledy little place that spans two buildings. They do great quiche and pastries and are very friendly. Noel Fielding of Mighty Boosh fame had an exhibition of paintings and drawings - Brian Ferry vs the Jelly Fox - showing there. He'd been given full run of the walls and had written little notes in marker pen around the place. Here's my favourite: More pictures: ...
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3Some pictures in and around the great neighbourhood where we stayed in Paris. Lots of narrow streets - cars park unbelievably close together - interesting shops, food markets, old buildings. ...
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