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Here we go

This being more or less a diary of our wanderings, working back from most recent to most distant. Hence, below, the finale to our recent travels in Sri Lanka.

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Museum Siam, Bangkok, Thailand
Good morning Bangkok
In the event, it ended up being not too bad a night on the train. Some long sleepless patches, but I’d expected that, and overall I probably got a good six or seven hours, which...
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Mueang Surat Thani - Talat, Thailand
03.08 on the fast train to Bangkok
I never was much good at sleeping in weird environments. And the overnight train to Bangkok definitely qualifies, at least for me. Not that it’s bad; quite the opposite. Even...
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On the road to Island Resort, Khao Sok, Thailand
A day of (enforced) rest
Perhaps telling that the most interesting image I can come up with is of the egg & banana roti I had for lunch. It’s been that kind of day. Really not too much to say about...
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Ratchaprapha Dam Reservoir, Khao Sok, Thailand
Quite the day, helluva finale
National Park day today – our one day tour, with boat rides, trekking through the jungle, and clambering through a cave. Didn’t start off too well, with a tedious two hours...
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Wat Sok Tham Phanthurak, Thailand
Buddha monkeys and more
We’d come to Khao Sok national park because we bumped into a young German woman who said it was lovely. She was right. But I was the one who found the restaurant just down the...
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Khao Sok, Thailand
Back in the jungle
There’s worse views to have from your balcony. So, we left the hotel and went down to the 7-11, where we’d been told all the tuk-tuks hung out in the morning. Not a tuk-tuk...
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