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Laos-China Railway – A review of the Vientiane to Boten train

June 14, 2022 By James Clark 6 Comments

The Laos-China Railway opened on the 2nd of December 2021, making it the first railway in Laos (not counting the border shuttle at Thanaleng from Nong Khai in Thailand). The train from Vientiane to Boten takes just 3.5 hours, and its main stops include Vang Vieng, Luang Prabang, and Muang Xai. Laos was still closed […]

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Notes on Sihanoukville – After the gold rush

June 2, 2022 By James Clark 6 Comments

Sihanoukville is a beach/port city on the coast of Cambodia. From an international tourism perspective, it was known as a backpacker haven and for retired expats drinking in girlie bars. In the space of about five years, Sihanoukville was transformed almost entirely into a Chinese casino resort destination. I was last in Sihanoukville in January […]

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Notes on Phnom Penh – Revisiting after the reopening

May 12, 2022 By James Clark 1 Comment

Cambodia was one of the earliest countries to reopen without quarantine in Southeast Asia, and I just so happened to need to do a visa run from Thailand. That was enough reason to pay an overdue revisit to Phnom Penh. This trip to Phnom Penh was in December 2020, and I saw in the new […]

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Notes on Ko Samet – The closest beach-break island from Bangkok

April 28, 2022 By James Clark 4 Comments

Ko Samet is an island on the Eastern Gulf Coast of Thailand, approximately 220 kilometres southeast of Bangkok. It’s technically not the closest island to Bangkok, but it’s the closest “beachy” island to Bangkok (and much nicer than the closest beach to Bangkok). It’s this proximity that has made Ko Samet synonymous with boatloads of […]

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The desolation of Khao San Road

March 21, 2022 By James Clark 2 Comments

Khao San Road is the famous backpacker street of Bangkok. This road and surrounding streets is the budget travel hub of Southeast Asia. In normal times it is a spectacle like no other place in the world. When the Covid-19 virus reduced travel to a trickle in March 2020, Thailand closed its borders to international […]

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Notes on Bangkok – Thailand’s cautious reopening

March 15, 2022 By James Clark 3 Comments

On November 1 2021 Thailand reopened international travel with the Test and Go scheme. This system offered entry for select international arrivals with one day quarantine before being allowed to travel freely in the country. I waited a month for the system to be running before returning, and these are my notes from one month […]

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Notes on Dubai – Expo 2020, South Asia food paradise, Dubai Marina, Palm Jumeirah and more

March 5, 2022 By James Clark 2 Comments

Dubai is a place I’ve wanted to spend more time in to have a proper look around, so I got that chance in November 2021. I have been to Dubai twice before on brief stopovers. Both of those visits were in the summer when the city is practically uninhabitable (45c days), and a one day […]

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Notes on Istanbul

February 10, 2022 By James Clark 6 Comments

“Why did I take so long to come back?!” This is what I exclaimed to myself after my refamiliarisation wander through the streets of Istanbul. The last time I was here was in 2013, and I think I said the same thing after returning from my first visit in 2011. My original plan was to […]

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Notes on Tirana

January 18, 2022 By James Clark 1 Comment

Tirana is the capital city of Albania, and it has a population of about half a million in a country of about 2.8 million. A small city in a small country, and yet I felt compelled to spend two weeks here without knowing much about it. I arrived at the bus station outside of the […]

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Notes on Coastal Montenegro – Bar, Budva, Tivat, and Kotor

December 16, 2021 By James Clark 2 Comments

Montenegro is positioning itself as a destination for digital nomads, and it was until recently offering citizenship through investment. It has since scrapped this program in order to prepare to apply for EU membership. It already uses the Euro, so it already feels like its on the way. Most international interest in Montenegro is along […]

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