Travel Forum / Destinations / Asia / August 2003

any good fare suggestions for some hot fares between Singapore and Colombo
return?

Hey all
here is my question : arriving from Europe, the first night would be jet lag
sleep, specially as we'll be arriving in the morning !
i'd like to go at least one day in continental China, another in Macau and

I visited Thailand in sep-nov of 1999. I think about going back almost
every day. When I can afford it, I will be back in a heartbeat. I'm
just curious about how much more westernized etc. many of the hotspots
(eg. Samui, Railay, Phangan, Phi Phi) have become in recent years? I

Can somebody confirm these statements:
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I just got all correspondence forwarded. Thank you that ......
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I'm travelling from the Australia to vietnam in early November 2003. I
have several questions if anyone can help:
1. Who is the best tour operators in vietnam
2. How safe in vietnam for a female (viet Kieu) traveller

See the latest Gordon Sharpless update on
http://talesofasia.com/cambodia-update.htm
Dark Heart
On July 22 the US Embassy released the following:

Definition:
The Great Wall is actually a series of walls built and rebuilt by different
Chinese dynasties over the past 2000 years. Typically considered as Great
Wall by common people, however, are the parts of the Wall built by the Ming

Hi there I am going to be in Bangkok for a week in Sept.  Does anyone know
if it is possible to get my teeth laser whitened while there?

See http://www.mrpumpy.net/rides/8-cambodia/BSA-Cambodia-4.html
Anyone else done this trip lately?
Other links about the crossing are on
http://rectravel.com/tnx

We're stopping in Mumbai and would appreciate advice on a quick
excursion (~2 days) to Pune we must undertake.
The distance seems too short to fly, so we are looking into trains and
road travel.

We're going YVR-ICN-SYD. Does SYD have 'on arrival' duty free shopping?
How are selection and prices at ICN? I was very disappointed with the
shopping at YVR on our first international flight out of there last
year. I would have thought that an airport of its prominence/prestige

The Guardian August 4 2003
Pressure on Burma Tours
By Tom Templeton
The Foreign Office says it will continue to increase the pressure on tour

I will be visting Japan for a week in October & will have a JR rail
pass (ordinary pass, not green car).  On the last day of my trip,
which is a Friday of a non-holiday weekend, I want to travel from
Osaka to Tokyo to Narita (I have an evening flight from Narita).

I have some tiny insect biting me, so small it can't be seen.  When I
told a local about it she asked, "Did you sleep under an elephant
grass roof?"  Yes I had, just a few days before.  She said that it
lived in the clothes and could survive washing, and there was a powder

http://www.molon.de/galleries/Myanmar/Myanmar.htm
642 images from lower and central Myanmar