LoCa's Cultural Feast and Extravaganza
In and around World
This blog will serve as our travel journal over the course of this 6 and 1/2 month voyage through Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. We will post updates as often as possible, and we hope to show you as many pictures as possible. This webspace should keep you posted of our well-being, allow you to travel vicariously through these exciting destinations, and even convey some important messages and lessons that we may be learning along the way. We hope you enjoy exploring our explorations.
Come explore our explorations!
Route taken and entries by Real Traveler LoCa
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Goodbye America!
    Our last night in the US was a wonderful way to say goodbye. Beginning with a fun roadtrip into the city with Alex and Rene, we made it in tim... Continue reading »
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An Airport Experience
What can we say? Alaska is amazing, but we can only tell that from the photos we saw in the souvenir shops at our gate in the airport. As good as an... Continue reading » -
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Arrival, Acclimatization, and Temples Galore
16 January 2006
    From the largest city in the States to the largest city in Southeast Asia! After only 24 hours in Bangkok, we've landed... Continue reading »
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Angkor Wat
January 20, 2006
Travel from Bangkok, Thailand to Siem Reap, Cambodia, via Aranya Prathet and Poipet, the respective Thai and Cambodian borde... Continue reading »
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Cambodia's Coast
January 24, 2006
We headed from Siem Reap to Sihanoukville via Phnom Penh by bus. This time the bus ride was much smoother and more filled w... Continue reading »
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Capital City!
January 30, 2006
Our travel day from Sihanoukville to Phnom Penh was easy and lazy. We arrived in the capital in the early afternoon an... Continue reading »
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An Island Away
February 1, 2006
Travel Day from Cambodia to Vietnam! We departed Phnom Penh by minibus to reach the Mekong river, where we boarded a b... Continue reading »
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Ho Chi Minh City/ Saigon
February 5, 2006
We will not continue to regale you with our traveling horror stories. Suffice it to say, getting from Phu Quoc to Saig... Continue reading »
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Beachside Nha Trang
February 7, 2006
Another travel day. This ride from Saigon to Nha Trang, via Mui Ne, was fairly comfortable, and one nice feature... Continue reading »
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Busy Little Hoi An
February 11, 2006
Finally in Hoi An after a long, sleepless night on a bus. The day of our arrival in this small town... Continue reading »
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Hue in a Day (or Two)
February 13, 2006
The bus ride from Hoi An to Hue was nice and easy with a couple of interesting stopovers on the way up. Of note was t... Continue reading »
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Hanoi
February 15, 2006
Early morning Hanoi presented a dizzyingly busy tumult of motos and cyclos. Battling our way through the clingy touri... Continue reading »
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Halong Bay
February 17, 2006
As a day trip from Hanoi, we were only just able to get a taste of the stunning scenery of Halong Bay. The name... Continue reading »
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Northern Mountains of Vietnam
February 18, 2006
We ended our beautiful day in Halong Bay with a ride back to Hanoi, and caught a night train up into the extreme north... Continue reading »
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Leaving Vietnam
February 21, 2006
We mounted the backs of our respective motos and headed for the bus station. Arriving late to an already crowded bus,... Continue reading »
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Heading South
February 23, 2006
We decided that we hadn't taken enough punishment yet, what with only 24 hours on that bus from Hanoi, so after only about... Continue reading »
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Si Phan Don
February 24, 2006
The night of our arrival in Si Phan Don we stayed on Don Kong, the biggest (15km long) of the 4,000 small islands strewn ab... Continue reading »
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Vientiane
March 2, 2006
Back across the Mekong and north to Vientiane, the capital, stopping only in Pakse to get off the local bus and onto the V... Continue reading »
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Va Va Vang Vieng
March 4, 2006
A trip to Vang Vieng is all about the activities you choose to do, not about the town itself, which is the epitome of how touri... Continue reading »
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Historic Luang Prabang
March 5, 2006
On the ancient bus to Luang Prabang, we noticed a number of plastic bags tied to the ceiling and wondered what they were doing... Continue reading »
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Slow Boat to Thailand via Pak Beng
March 11, 2006
We opted to take one last journey along the Mekong before leaving it behind and took a riverboat from Luang Prabang to Huay Xa... Continue reading »
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Chiang Rai
March 13, 2006
Leaving Laos was easy enough, and the friendly border guards only charged us $10 for taking too slow a slow boat. We pai... Continue reading »
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A Peace of Pai
March 13, 2006
From Chiang Rai to Chiang Mai to Pai, we bussed and bussed and bussed. Just a short layover in the Chiang Mai bus statio... Continue reading »
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An Extended Stay in Chiang Mai
March 18, 2006
A bit hungover, we huffed our bags to the bus stop in the center of Pai to await the bus to Chiang Mai. It arrived late... Continue reading »
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Back in Bangkok
March 30, 2006
Yet another interesting overnight bus ride... The driver was either insane, on speed, or both, and at one point swerved danger... Continue reading »
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Kanchanaburi
April 2, 2006
We took a nice, scenic train ride from Bangkok to the cute, little town of Kanchanaburi just three hours away. Kanchanabu... Continue reading »
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Kawthaung/ Ranong
April 8, 2006
A beautiful road led us to the odd border town of Ranong, Thailand, which was still sleeping upon our arrival at 4:45 in the mo... Continue reading »
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Short Stay in Ko Samui
April 9, 2006
A pickup truck took us to the bus station early in the morning, where we were packed into the back of a cramped minibus. ... Continue reading »
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Paradise Found
April 11, 2006
Looking for the less developed, we caught the 1:00 ferry for Ko Pha Ngan. The hot traverse in the sun was pleasant but p... Continue reading »
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Ko Tao (Turtle Island)
April 18, 2006
We caught the ferry up to Ko Tao to do some diving. A rather Caribbean-looking, dreadlocked local was busy working the c... Continue reading »
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Phuket
April 24, 2006
We took a night ferry from Ko Tao to the mainland town of Surat Thani. Our bags disappeared, thrown through a hatch in t... Continue reading »
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Khao Lak
April 28, 2006
Travel north to the coastal city of Khao Lak was refreshingly easy and uneventful. We arrived in town, checked in with o... Continue reading »
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Horrible Hat Yai
May 5, 2006
There is not much to say about our 12 hour, one night stopover in this sleazy city. Hat Yai is really a boarder city, despi... Continue reading »
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Perhentian Islands
May 6, 2006
We fled Hat Yai by early morning train. A sleepy, misty, and peaceful countryside rumbled past on the way to Rant... Continue reading »
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Taman Negara
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Georgetown, Penang
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Crazy KL
Modernization, Mosques, Malls, and the Masses
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