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South African Explorer: From Johannesburg to Cape Town - two old friends, living on different continents, take a leave of absence from their families to explore South Africa.
A Travel Blog by pachi
... of an amazing trip I took to South Africa in January and February 2007. An overland trip starting in Johannesburg and ending in Cape Town - this was what I had decided would be my big six-oh! birthday present to myself. An old friend, who I had not seen ...
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Lijiang Old Town China
A Travel Blog entry by trainer_don from Lijiang Old Town, Yunnan, China
We stayed in Lijiang Old Town China. This place is beautiful and a blast. Their are no cars, motor scooters or bicycles allowed on the sidewalks and there are no streets. It is completely a walking town, made up of cobblestone sidewalks ...
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Amazing Mexican Restaurant in Old Town
A Travel Blog entry by vrodjen from Old Town San Diego, California, United States
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Day Skipper, Phuket Old Town
A Travel Blog entry by fromthemill from Mueang Phuket, Phuket, Thailand
... Sheep and were really pleasantly suprised by Phuket Town. It's home to a huge %25 of the local population and the old town at least is a very aesthetically pleasing European influenced grid of pretty "shop houses". Many of these had been transformed into ...
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Fun Day with New Friends in Old Town
A Travel Blog entry by travelkraut from Phuket Town, Phuket, Thailand
... , her Mom Marie Anne and I met in the morning to share a ride back to Phuket Town for some sightseeing. We strolled through Old Town with its many historic buildings and arrays of shops, nice little cafes and antique stores. It was a lot more picturesque ...
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Ancient Town & Street Market
A Travel Blog entry by trainer_don from Lijiang Old Town, Yunnan, China
Outside the upper gates of Lion Hill we began our descent back down, this time through the streets of an ancient town. The streets were busy with people selling their goods. Our presence was noticed and one man was especially intrigued by my ...
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A walk on the wild side
A Travel Blog entry by wendypeter123 from Lijiang Old Town, Yunnan Province, China
... the buckets were flying around on the floor in every curve. We finally arrived in Lijiang and stayed in the huge old town which consists of a maze of windling narrow alleys and beautiful houses. Unfortunately, it was also quite crowded with tourists ...
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Israelijiang
A Travel Blog entry by philkoziol from Lijiang Old Town, Yunnan Province, China
... I have been the old town was my target location but there is a throbbing leviathan of a new town next door feeding the thirsty old town the imitation Tibetan gifts, Chinese robes and beer that the tourists buy up on mass. So as an introduction this may ...
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Oooops!! Wrong Place Luckily!!
A Travel Blog entry by timshazz from Lijiang Old Town, Yunnan, China
... old town. Most of the tour groups appear to have departed for the day so we had plenty of uncrowded photo ops. The old town was pretty obviously a NEW “Old Town” with plenty of souvenir shops, cafes and restaurants. Still it was ...
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Is this Disney for Chinese Tourists?
A Travel Blog entry by brander-whanau from Lijiang Old Town, Yunnan, China
Lijiang Old Town has two YHA hostels, which is confusing, especially if you find your way through the maze of streets in Lijiang Old Town only to find yourself at the wrong one. Which Ella and Sonja did after they decided to return earlier than the ...
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Graduation
A Travel Blog entry by katrinarose1816 from Old Town, Florida, United States
... and she went to my graduation (Tacoma, WA) and so I had to go to hers. I didn't really see a whole lot since Old Town isn't exactly near any fantastic attractions like Disney World. We got tattooed together and I did her senior pictures. Other than that, ...
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Day 3 Lijiang
A Travel Blog entry by chrisneddy from Lijiang Old Town, Yunnan, China
... of elderly men playing Mah Jong, a few pagodas and lots of blooming trees and flowers. In the afternoon we wandered around the old town some more, finding a vantage point to see the roof tops and to see our first cherry blossom (which made Edana very ...
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In need of mending
A Travel Blog entry by ashventures from Lijiang Old Town, Yunnan, China
... 1996 earthquake and resulting reconstruction emphasised low-rise single-family dwellings of traditional style, eventually culminating in the old town receiving UNESCO World Heritage status, and the resulting tourism boom which now threatens to turn the ...
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The Sunshine State, Part Four: The Panhandle
A Travel Blog entry by chadhanson from Old Town, Florida, United States
... We needed to head Northwest to start our journey back westward, so we ended up camping along the banks of the Suwannee River, near Old Town, Florida. Made famous in the Stephen Foster song 'Old Folks at Home' ("Way down South, upon the Swannee ...
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Back in Lijiang for a couple of days
A Travel Blog entry by overlander84 from Lijiang Old Town, Yunnan, China
... , Dave and Katie caught their train back to Kunming to see some rice terraces, we spent the evening walking around Lijiang's old town and sampling the local delicacies – or bizarrarities... Louise was heading to Tibet too, but as she was spending a ...
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One night in Phuket Town
A Travel Blog entry by jimbobandrayray from Phuket town, Phuket, Thailand
... food and enjoyed a really authentic Italian pizza - better than some had in Italy! The rest of the evening we explored the old town and somehow managed to get a private tour of the old governor's house - recently renovated by Blue Elephant restaurant and ...
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A pretty Italian town in Greece looking at Turkey
A Travel Blog entry by rnriggins from Kos Town, Dodecanese, Greece
... people have lived all their lives. I took several "road trips" while on Kos including Bodrum, Kardamena and Antimahia which are covered in separate posts. I really enjoyed Kos which offered a blend of historic sights, a nice old town and relaxing ...
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Winding Down - Our last week in Cape Town
A Travel Blog entry by indianajill from Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
... was from the balcony of this building that Nelson Mandela addressed the nation upon his release from prison. Kitty corner to the old Town Hall is the Castle of Good Hope and the Square between the Castle and the former city hall is the Grand ...
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... Mirador de Dalt Vila is a colonial house converted into a luxurious 5 star hotel. It is located in the heart of Ibiza's old town, declared Human Heritage by UNESCO in 1999.It boasts spectacular views to the Mediterranean Sea and Ibiza's harbour. Only at ...
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... and provided safe harbor for Arabic and Chinese trading vessels sailing between the larger ports of Phuket, Penang and Singapore. Today, Old Town is the district capital; it has a post office, police station, Buddhist temple, Chinese temple and the ...



