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Sheep-Goats posted:Mainland China is like some WWF wrestling superstar of nastiness, with his less often seen but somewhat more extreme ally India. The absolute worst version of these trough toilets are the ones at long haul bus rest stops. Then you have a horde of groggy people all using them at the same time. Bonus points for multiple buses pulling up together for a dinner stop. Double bonus if your bus pulls up last.
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"mental note: don't go to china". My brother was with me in thailand and the only thing he really didn't like there was the lack of cleanliness. He's going to india with some friends in november. I'm expecting some great bathroom stories.
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Indian toilets in general weren't to bad (unless you count the side of the road as a toilet like many do) although the bus stop toilets were awful, the smell alone made me projectile vomit my lunch all over the trough much to the amusement of everyone around me.
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Just got back from 2+ weeks in the Philippines. I had a blast and will probably return in a couple years or so. The bum guns are great (it's just the sprayer hose like you'd find on a kitchen sink in the US that's connected to the toilet water supply) and I may install one at home if I can't afford one of the magical Japanese toilets like I used during my layover in Nagoya. In contrast, here's the nicest toilet in the Philippines:  The back wall is glass looking out onto some plants. To be fair, they did expect you to pay after using it ($0.25). I'll post some fun details from the trip after I get my photos all organized, but for now I'll leave you with this old lady who is cooler than you will ever be: 
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Mar 22, 2011 21:33
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It's the Outlaw Josephine Magandagal Antonia Maria St. Peter Batangas.
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More or less packed up and ready to go. Exciting. Climbing gear is taking up 50% of my 35L pack. Pompous Rhombus, are you still posting that tailoring guide? And a random A/T crosspost, but how the heck did your background investigation guy handle your SE Asia motorbike tour?
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i81icu812 posted:More or less packed up and ready to go. Exciting. Climbing gear is taking up 50% of my 35L pack. That's someone else I think, I just went to Yaly Couture in Hoi An (highly recommended) after doing some reading up in the W&W suit thread. Guy checked literally every entry and exit stamp in my three passports (my travel documents and water damage have a bad history), that was about it. Secret's are pretty perfunctory, I imagine poo poo is gonna get complicated if I go for a TS or above though.
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Pompous Rhombus posted:That's someone else I think, I just went to Yaly Couture in Hoi An (highly recommended) after doing some reading up in the W&W suit thread. Dammit, sorry about that. Not sure I'm going to make it to Vietnam this time around, but thanks for sharing your experiences. THREE passports? Hahahaha. The clearance for TS will be another fun adventure! Let's try this again; Sheep-Goats, are you going to write up that tailoring post?
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Do you guys know of any nice place to stay in Koh Phangan close to the Full Moon Party? I'll be there on the 18th but it seems most places require you to stay a minimum of three nights and I just want a place to crash for that night...
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I have a question regarding footwear. A friend and I are going to be trekking round Thailand and Cambodia (possibly Laos and Vietnam too)for about 6 weeks. If I'm going to be spending long days walking around jungle/mountains and whatnot, am I going to be wanting big, badass durable hiking boots to deal with mud and all sorts of wear and tear? Or would smaller, more breathable and generally more heat and humidity friendly shoes be a better option?
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Just rented a 125cc Honda and took my first motorbike ride. Ever. In Chaing Mai rush hour. Awesome. Have a funny story or two to tell but they will have to wait because I have an appointment to see a man about a dog. Until then, I will be in BKK for a couple days starting 7AM on the 25th (finally got my train tix). I should be meeting up with i81icu812 and of course would like to invite anyone else in the area out for a beer (or delicious fruit shake for you alkies) now that I know my way around a bit. If memory serves, there were a few of you fuckers getting into town about now. But then again, often it doesn't, so we shall see. tzz posted:Do you guys know of any nice place to stay in Koh Phangan close to the Full Moon Party? I can't recommend a place on Haad Rin (Full moon party beach) but I can say Ibiza on Haad Yao, a bit up north, has nice fan bungalows right on the beach and only had a 2 night minimum at 700/night when I was there in February but it may be cheaper later in the year. It's maybe 100-150 baht songthew ride, depending on your negotiating skills. It is nice to have a place to stay closer to the party because you don't want to deal with all that poo poo when you're wasted but I can't say enough good things about Haad Yao. Also keep it in mind if you want to 'get away' somewhere quiet for a couple days after the party. You will. El Dingo, I brought my Ecco gore-tex boots and absolutely love them although a lot of people (okay, everybody) says they're a bit much but I swear they're awesome and my feet don't sweat at all. That much. That said, I see and have heard a lot of good things about the crossover-type 'hiking shoes'. I forget what they're called but it sounds more like the latter of what you're talking about. Trail shoes maybe? I dunno, but like obscenity, you'll know it when you see it.
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Does anyone have any advice or experience about motorbiking through Laos? Preferably or possible hiring a bike and dropping it someplace else? Although returning it wouldnt be the end of the world. . .
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BigSuave posted:Also keep it in mind if you want to 'get away' somewhere quiet for a couple days after the party. You will. Nah, I'm getting out of Ko Phangan the next day, I wouldn't even go to the Full Moon Party, but my friends insist on it.
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william567 posted:Does anyone have any advice or experience about motorbiking through Laos? Preferably or possible hiring a bike and dropping it someplace else? Although returning it wouldnt be the end of the world. . . Yeah, what sort of info are you looking for? Main place to get a bike is Vientiane or Pakse, although there's a German guy running a Minsk rental outfit under the radar in Luang Prabang. If you rent one down in Pakse, you can do a loop over the Bolaven plateau (waterfalls, coffee plantations, and questionable roads, oh my!) and return it back where you started without retracing much ground. There's another decent loop from Luang Prabang out to Phonsavan (Plain of Jars) then up north to Sam Neau (some cool limestone karts and caves where Pathet Lao hid out during American bombardment), then cut west to Udomxai and back down south to Luang Prabang. Theoretically you could do that in like 4 days mostly in the saddle, but a week or so would be better.
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BigSuave posted:I will be in BKK for a couple days starting 7AM on the 25th (finally got my train tix). I think I got the same train a couple of months ago. Train 14 from Chiang Mai to Bangkok? I took it from Phitsanulok at midnight. EVERYBODY said the train would be delayed by hours, and that our 6:40am scheduled arrival time would be closer to about 11am. I think it was only about 20 minutes late. Also, at Bangkok I stepped off my carriage in to a film set.
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william567 posted:Does anyone have any advice or experience about motorbiking through Laos? Preferably or possible hiring a bike and dropping it someplace else? Although returning it wouldnt be the end of the world. . . As usual, it's best to read what pompous has to say about this:) i started from vientiane and followed to 13 up north for the most part. I rented with http://www.bike-rental-laos.com/bikes.php . Expensive but very good. he also picks up motorcycles, but that costs extra ofcourse. A bit of advice: -wear protection (I borought some summer biking stuff from a biker in belgium, he couldn't use it anyway in winter here). This goes for the weather too, in the mountains/mist, it can get cold sometimes. -Fuel up if you can. There are not that many gas stations. In between vang vieng and luang I only saw one, and without it my bike would not have made it. Ofcourse I'm sure pompous knows the magic lao word for "4 stroke fuel". But I didn't and ended up driving on reserve a couple of times in the middle of nowhere. -Bring some toiletpaper. When it happens, you'll know. -If the police give you a ticket, they will adjust the price for you silly farang.
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Steve. posted:I think I got the same train a couple of months ago. Train 14 from Chiang Mai to Bangkok? I took it from Phitsanulok at midnight. EVERYBODY said the train would be delayed by hours, and that our 6:40am scheduled arrival time would be closer to about 11am. I think it was only about 20 minutes late. Also, at Bangkok I stepped off my carriage in to a film set. Yeah, good ol' number 14. I wanted 2 but it was full and I didn't want to wait another day so 14 it was. We'll see -- my last train was only an hour late but honestly with a 6:40 arrival time I'm more than happy for a couple hour delay so I can actually get some sleep. Motorbike stories will have to wait for another day because I'm too drunk and it's too late because I need to get up 'early' to check out and get on my train by 4-ish...
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BigSuave posted:Just rented a 125cc Honda and took my first motorbike ride. Ever. In Chaing Mai rush hour. Awesome. I can still picture it perfectly after all the time. I'm just beebopping along, minding my business, look to the left to make sure no one is coming, just turn right without coming to any sort of stop, look up, HOLY poo poo BUS BUS BUS literally 30 feet in front of me and closing fast, I can still picture the dusty grill on it. I credit my years and years of serious bicycling riding for not laying it down right there and dying. Somehow I made a perfect MSF swerve maneuver and missed it by like 10 feet. I think I chain smoked like 4 cigs after I pulled over.
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Yeah, definitely felt some pretty strong tremors (and an aftershock) here in Chiang Mai, but no damage/deaths that I know of. Just two deaths so far, one in Mai Sai and one just inside Burma. Let's hope it's not too bad, Burma really doesn't need this.
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I had to be told we had one, if that means anything. I'm in Bangkok, of course. The security guard was all atwitter about it, but I was like "Huh? Must've worked through it."
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My girlfriend and I are going to visit Borneo in June. We will arrive in Kota Kinabalu, and we would love to experience some great nature. So far we have found this, but it costs $1560, and we are not that interested in hiking for 8 hours. I understand it can be difficult to get around in Borneo, and as we do not have more than approx 10-14 days there, we would like to limit the travelling time there. Can anyone share some experience on fun things to do near Kota Kinabalu/Sabah?
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Da Monk posted:My girlfriend and I are going to visit Borneo in June. We will arrive in Kota Kinabalu, and we would love to experience some great nature. So far we have found this, but it costs $1560, and we are not that interested in hiking for 8 hours. Awesome, very few people in this thread seem to make it over there! KK doesn't have a whole lot happening itself (there's a crocodile farm outside of town), although there's some really cheap diving schools there if you want to get certified. Personally, I recommend spending just a little bit more and getting certified in Sipidan if you're going to go that route, it has some world class diving with cool features/wildlife (the diving around KK sucks). Semporna, the jumping off town, is a big shithole, I did my diving through Scuba Junkie and tried a homestay on Mabul island, which was awesome (tiny village with few amenities, super friendly people). There are some resorts there too. Mabul:  Street by ethics_gradient, on Flickr  Pulau Mabul Beach by ethics_gradient, on Flickr  Grasshopper by ethics_gradient, on Flickr  Resort by ethics_gradient, on Flickr Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Center is over that way and worth checking out, but you only need to spend like half a day there tops. The orangutans are "semi-wild", which means they're not in cages or whatever, just kind of coming in and out to grab food that the center leaves out for them and doing their own thing.  Sepilok by ethics_gradient, on Flickr  Orangutan by ethics_gradient, on Flickr If you've got a day to kill in KK, you can catch a mini-bus down to Tenom and take the train back up. The train is super-cheap and pretty rustic, I rode on a flatbed car with my feet dangling over the side.  Tenom Station by ethics_gradient, on Flickr Hawaii Beach outside of Miri is pretty picturesque (I'm not even a beach person), but you can find nice beaches all over Borneo.  Hawaii Beach by ethics_gradient, on Flickr You can also fly out to Mulu National Park, but if you aren't into hiking there's not really much of a point. I did a 3 day hike to the Pinnacles, which was pretty cool.  Meandering by ethics_gradient, on Flickr  Fokker 50 by ethics_gradient, on Flickr  The Pinnacles by ethics_gradient, on Flickr I skipped Mount Kinnabalu too (didn't have time, couldn't do it right after diving), sounded arduous as hell for a sorta "meh" payoff (was in the rainy season). Enjoy your trip!
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Mt. Kinabalu is definitely worth attempting, but don't rush. I didn't make it to the top because I had a cold and that didn't work so well with the altitude. The walk is pretty cool (and only kind of difficult) and the view is amazing, even from below the summit. I didn't like Kota Kinabalu much, but it's a good base for exploring Sabah. I did like Sarawak, and particularly Kuching, very much. Sarawak laksa is the best kind of laksa ever. June is hot and wet, but should be ideal to investigate a trip from Kuching to Miri, along the Batang Rejang: http://wikitravel.org/en/Rejang_River If I were to go again I'd do that, check out Gunung Mulu, Niah Caves, the Kelabit Highlands, and more or less explore the place until I ran out of money...
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Got in to BKK in one piece and am enjoying my trip. Weather is quite pleasant, not nearly as hot as I was expecting. Many thanks to BigSuave for all of his help. Anyone with a guesthouse suggestion for Chiang Mai for Songkran? Sheep-Goats, any luck with that tailoring writeup? Or better yet, drop me a line at 0800423487 and I'll get you a beer or three if you are still in BKK.
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i81icu812 posted:Got in to BKK in one piece and am enjoying my trip. Weather is quite pleasant, not nearly as hot as I was expecting. Many thanks to BigSuave for all of his help. I'm pretty sure professor Goats left for NY a couple weeks ago but I could be wrong. He was actually the one who showed me the guesthouse we're staying at now. I just wish they had fan rooms since I haven't used the A/C once since I got here and it would be a couple hundred baht cheaper. I like it though because of the real hot water instead of that tepid inline bullshit and you can actually flush TP. Yeah, the weather has been nuts here. It was the same up in Chiang Mai. Got down to 12 degrees a couple nights but I think I already bitched about that earlier. I also have a recommendation for a place or two in Chiang Mai. I stayed two weeks at this place and paid 200 baht a night for a fan room w/ hot water. Kind of like the place we're at now, pretty basic but cheep and cheerful. Beds aren't as comfortable though. I was actually going to call and make a reservation back there for Songkran today or tomorrow since things fill up early. I'll give you their card today; in fact I'm not even sure why I'm even bothering to type this but here we are. Same thing about advance reservations applies to plane/train tickets so you might want to book now, if you know where you're going to be coming from (which is a luxury I don't have quite yet so I'm just crossing my fingers and hoping I won't have to take another 12-hour minibus ride or some poo poo). Speaking of which, remind me to bitch about my Cambodian border run later. I need to shower and get ready for my continued overindulgence tonight.
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At HKG boarding for HKT in a few minutes. Anyone else around Phuket? Not exactly backpacking. Also wondering how much would it be to ship a box of stuff back to the states. Just stuff picked up in HK. Had to pay a bit extra to get it on airasia. Approx 76 USD. (110hkd for each kilo over our prepaid limit).
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Which country would you guys recommend for a month or two of therapy. Maybe a little weed. Budget 1-2k. I've been to India so I can deal with bullshit pretty easily.
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i81icu812 posted:Sheep-Goats, any luck with that tailoring writeup? Or better yet, drop me a line at 0800423487 and I'll get you a beer or three if you are still in BKK. I have a 12 hour bullshit shift tomorrow and am going to bed now but I'll do it on Wednesday, okay. Here's a summary: Being picky don't matter that much, just go get it done.
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automatic posted:Which country would you guys recommend for a month or two of therapy. Maybe a little weed. Budget 1-2k. I've been to India so I can deal with bullshit pretty easily. Sounds like you want Thailand and/or Laos. If the potweed is that important to you it is much easier to find in Laos, as it's literally on the menus in Vang Vieng right between the magic mushroom shakes and the balls of opium. I haven't been to Laos yet so I don't know much more but it's definitely, shall we say, a bit less developed Thailand. Thailand it can be a bit harder and sketchier to find but it's definitely here, especially down on the islands. Just don't land in Thai prison. On Koh Pha Ngan I saw a guy at literally the low point of his life. Like an idiot, he was smoking a joint on the beach during the full moon party, where there and undercover cops everywhere who will even sell you poo poo and then immediately arrest you, and they just rolled up on him and arrested him. When I met him he had just gotten bailed out of jail (40,000 baht just for the bail) after spending a few nights there waiting for his cash to come in and then he had a court date 40 days later to find out his actual punishment. So of course they took his passport and he was supposed to be back at work in 2 days. Try explaining that one to your boss. Anyway, I don't exactly want to make a write-up on how to buy drugs in Asian countries where they can put you to death for possession so that's all I will say about that for now but PM me and I might be able to give you a pointer or two. If you are too cheap/poor for plat then buy it instead of wasting your money on lovely Thai jungle weed. Honestly it's really not worth the risk though, even if saying that makes me a total hypocrite. Maybe try Mexico or Costa Rica if it's that important to you. Otherwise you can still come here and just get wasted on the cheap beer, cheaper cigarettes, and over-the-counter benzos (valium, xanax, etc) if that's your scene. -- Edited to avoid breaking TCC rules. -- E: On to something else, I was chatting up this delightful Finnish girl last night (before I learned she was married to a Thai guy -- should have noticed the ring, rookie mistake) and she was telling me that 'Khap kun' is kind of the farang way of saying 'thank you' and it's actually more like 'cow poon'(I'm spelling that phonetically, I'm sure it's actually spelled differently). She insisted that the locals just say 'khap kun' to the farang because that's what we expect but I would think they would speak their own drat language the proper way and let us learn what's actually right. Can any of you long-term guys confirm/deny this? Is it possibly just a local accent thing? BigSuave fucked around with this message at 10:53 on Mar 29, 2011 |
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BigSuave posted:E: On to something else, I was chatting up this delightful Finnish girl last night (before I learned she was married to a Thai guy -- should have noticed the ring, rookie mistake) and she was telling me that 'Khap kun' is kind of the farang way of saying 'thank you' and it's actually more like 'cow poon'(I'm spelling that phonetically, I'm sure it's actually spelled differently). She insisted that the locals just say 'khap kun' to the farang because that's what we expect but I would think they would speak their own drat language the proper way and let us learn what's actually right. Can any of you long-term guys confirm/deny this? Is it possibly just a local accent thing? Probably a southern thing (never been there myself), Thai has several distinctive regional dialects: North, Northeastern, and Southern, in addition to Standard/Central, as well as Kuy/Phaasaa Suay (a Khmer/Thai mashup) and unrelated minority languages. "Khop khun" is proper standard Thai. "Khob jai" is Lao/Northeastern (Northeastern Thai and the Lao language are more or less the same thing, there are more speakers of Lao in Thailand than there are in Laos), or a more informal form of thanks in Standard Thai, like an adult would use with a small kid. You can "khob jai" or any other distinctively Lao phrases with speakers of Standard Thai to get an easy laugh, Lao has the connotation of being spoken by country bumpkins, so it's roughly the equivalent of meeting an Asian person here with a thick Alabama twang, only more incongruous (since basically 0% of foreigners have a decent command of Thai to begin with). There is a fairly accessibly-written book about contemporary Thai sociolinguistics I read last year I can recommend if you want to learn more about Thailand's languages and how Thai people perceive them, but it's probably not of interest to 99% of people reading this thread. automatic posted:Which country would you guys recommend for a month or two of therapy. Maybe a little weed. Budget 1-2k. I've been to India so I can deal with bullshit pretty easily. Probably Cambodia, it's the most "Wild West" as far as the law goes unless things have changed drastically in the last few years. That's not to say you have carte blanche to smoke weed 24/7, just that it seems comparably more available and easier to buy your way out of trouble if something bad does happen. Disclaimer: I don't smoke weed, just an outsider's point of view.
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"The wild west" seems pretty badass. Weed isn't really a huge issue for me, I am medically legal here in cali so its not something I'm traveling to do, I do occasionally find myself in a Japanese club or hiking or something similar wishing I had a joint. I am certainly not stupid enough to buy weed in Japan although when I was 16 I attempted to purchase ecstasy from a bartender at the side gaspanic in shibuya - he brought me into the bathroom and tried to convince me that a ten sack of weed was "ecstasia! pure mdma! But yeah cambodia sounds awesome- just don't really want weird looks from people thinking I'm a sex tourist. Sucks that Southeast Asia has that stigma, while going over travel plans today a friend kept remarking that like 3-4 of the countries I wanted to visit in asia were notorious for sex tourism. It's not like I can't go down to Oakland and find a hooker or go on craigslist or whatever here too....not saying I want to but I would rather be in Santa Rita Jail than Phnom Phnem Prison or whatever.
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automatic posted:"The wild west" seems pretty badass. Weed isn't really a huge issue for me, I am medically legal here in cali so its not something I'm traveling to do, I do occasionally find myself in a Japanese club or hiking or something similar wishing I had a joint. It's not as crazy as it once was, but there's definitely less rule of law going on in Cambodia. (Don't gently caress with a mobster, for example.) The sad thing about it is that a lot of the worst of the sexpat crowd from Thailand migrated to Cambodia when the former tightened their visa restrictions 5-ish years ago (you used to be able to renew a 30 day tourist visa indefinitely by stepping over the border every month to get a new entry stamp), and Cambodia is also now known as the child prostitution hotspot of the region. If you see any of that going on, rat them the gently caress out to an NGO. The sex tourist assumptions are just kind of inevitable (and not without warrant), a lot of it dates back from the Vietnam/R&R days. I didn't really have the heart to tell Thai people that hookers and ladyboys are what comes to mind first for most Americans when asked about Thailand.
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Here in Phuket. Rain rain rain. It doesn't let up. Two modes: pouring and gushing. Never ending. And it will continue this way through the weekend. Looked at other places to venture to in the areas on the cheap but prob not going to happen within the allotted timeframe we have.
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Schatten posted:Here in Phuket. Rain rain rain. It doesn't let up. Two modes: pouring and gushing. Never ending. And it will continue this way through the weekend. Looked at other places to venture to in the areas on the cheap but prob not going to happen within the allotted timeframe we have. My friends on Koh Tao tell me that it's the same: so much rain. So much that it's kinda sorta a disaster. 
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Steve. posted:My friends on Koh Tao tell me that it's the same: so much rain. So much that it's kinda sorta a disaster. 9 people dead in flooding, rain expected to continue through the week. I guess I'll head north instead of south as planned.
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Still planning our trip to Borneo, and we have found a tour that takes us through some parts of Sandakan. A 4 day tour consists of (or see this link with pictures): DAY 01 SANDAKAN / SELINGAN TURTLE ISLAND DAY 02 SEPILOK / KINABATANGAN RIVER CRUISE DAY 03 OXBOW LAKE DAY 04 GOMANTONG CAVE It includes food, hotels and transport and total price is RM 1760 per person. Could anyone tell me if this is worth the money?
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