| Thailand
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| | exactly help either.
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| Travelling through Thailand is a great
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| | Laos
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| experience public transport is great and
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| | Laos is an extremely beautiful although
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| roads are in excellent condition. A great
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| | still primitive country to visit and
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| way to see some of the countryside is to
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| | local transport from villages is normally
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| rent a motorbike. When renting a
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| | done on converted trucks, with benches in
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| motorbike be sure to check it out
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| | the back for customers to sit on. Try to
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| thoroughly this is easy enough to say but
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| | avoid travelling on this mode of
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| important points like does the odometer
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| | transport when coming or passing through
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| or fuel gauge work these can come in
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| | fishing villages heading to the more
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| handy later on in the trip, especially if
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| | centrally located towns, especially in
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| going long distances. The motorbikes in
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| | the mornings. The reason is because the
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| Asia are built a little differently with
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| | villagers tend to take their produce
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| two brakes a hand brake (front wheel) and
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| | which is mainly fish, including dried
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| the other a foot brake (back wheel). Try
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| | fish to sell in the towns. This can make
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| to use only the foot brake when
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| | for a very unpleasant experience as the
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| travelling fast as using the hand brake
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| | truck is never really considered to be
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| will send you flying as it only applies
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| | full and sitting next to baskets of fresh
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| pressure to the front wheel. Another
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| | and dried fish which stinks for hours is
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| common mistake is when going uphill
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| | enough to test the stomach of any person.
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| shifting down gear while gassing the
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| | Cambodia
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| engine this tends to result in a front
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| | When travelling in Cambodia, locals like
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| wheelie and more often than not an
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| | to take Taxis as they are quicker than
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| accident.
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| | the buses and manage to avoid the
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| China
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| | potholes better. The only problem with
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| China is extremely diverse and the
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| | this is that what the West considers
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| Chinese lead a completely different way
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| | being a normal five door car with two
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| of life to the West making it a great
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| | seats in the front and three in the back
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| experience to travel too. When travelling
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| | is considered in Cambodia to hold seven
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| in China, the roads are excellent as are
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| | or sometimes eight people. The Cambodians
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| some of the trains and tracks. As large
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| | will fit four in the back and three or
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| distances are involved there is a lot of
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| | sometimes even four in the front. If a
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| overnight travel. Sleeper trains and
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| | taxi holds eight people then there would
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| buses are common as the local Chinese
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| | be four in the back and two in the front
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| like to wake up at their destination.
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| | passenger's seat a passenger in the
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| One great tip I learnt while travelling
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| | driver's seat, the driver would then be
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| in China on sleeper transport is never to
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| | squashed up to the passenger, leaning
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| take the bottom bunk. The reason for this
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| | against him to hold the wheel with his
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| is that on many overnight trains and
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| | feet at an angle to reach the pedals.
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| buses the people like to dispose of their
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| | This would be impossible in a manual car
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| rubbish on the floor of the bus or train.
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| | but some how it is managed in an
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| This means that if you are sleeping on
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| | automatic. Travelling like this is
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| the bottom bed you are likely to have
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| | extremely dangerous and not recommended.
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| rubbish thrown down past you during the
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| | There is a general place where Taxis
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| trip. This is not that bad to deal with
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| | depart from and they don't depart till
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| but another past time is eating nuts and
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| | they are full. A way to get around this
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| spitting out the seed casings on the
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| | is to buy two or even three seats,
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| floor, this along with spitting makes the
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| | effectively meaning you travel in more
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| bottom bunk an interesting experience.
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| | comfort and safety as this means there
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| Waking up to find a pile of rubbish and
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| | would be less people in the Taxi.
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| spit on the floor by your bed doesn't
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