Travel Forum / Destinations / Asia / April 2005

I'm a female solo travelling from Europe to Bombay, having a stop of 6 hours
in the night at the Riyadh airport (from 8 pm to2 am)
Any suggestion about how to spend all this time?
There is any dress code  that is better for me to observe?

Has anyone stayed at this hotel recently? It is tied to the Holiday Villa
Hotel which gets poor reports, but so do all the cheaper hotels in Langkawi

At about 5pm GMT.
Strenght is 8.3 Richter.
Take great care...
QQG

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I'm going to be in HCMC for 2 weeks at the beginning of May.  I would
like see Angkor Wat.  There are warnings about sporadic violence even in
Lonely Planet.  Any one been there lately?  Any advice?
Anyone know of tours from HCMC to Angkor Wat?

My wife, daughter (21 y.o.)  and I will be taking a 19 day Ritz tour to
China  in mid-May.  What would be the appropriate type of clothing to take?
Is formal (e.g. coat and tie) attire needed for the nicer evening events or
is a sport shirt and slacks OK?  What about jeans for ...

Bid to convert French humanitarian fishing boat into SL Navy vessel
exposed
[TamilNet, March 25, 2005 04:19 GMT]
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/stop-tsunami-aid-srilanka

Reporting duo beat red tape to deliver Sri Lanka aid
By: Nikki Sargeson
Source: Hold theFront Page - April 1, 2005
http://www.tamilcanadian.com/pageview.php?ID=3156&SID=492

My wife & I are considering a 2 week trip to Shanghai & Peking but she
has recently found out she is pregnant.  At the time we are supposed to
go she will be 2 months pregnant.  We haven't bought any tickets or
anything so we can change our plans but we'd really like to go.  So far

Radio news in the UK is reporting that passengers are refusing to get on a
Emirates flight from Bangkok that twice had to abort its takeoff, said of
screaming passengers and fuel spilling from the plane.
Jan

One more city train accident in Bangkok. Five people were injured aftrer two
trains of maintenance collided yesterday on the tracks of the elevated
train.

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Can anyone recommend a website that publishes domestic airfares and
schedules within China.  Chinese websites, including China Eastern and China
Southern are hopelessly slow or give up errors when queried.  I am chiefly
interested in two segments, the first being Kunming - ...

I'm a bit confused about the visa requirements for China and Hong Kong.  We
will be traveling to China from the USA, from China to HK, and flying to the
USA from HK.  Do we need visas for both China and HK?