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Photo Journey through SE Asia

October 2, 2009

Beachhouse.com Guest Bloggers, Stacy & Jeff, traveled across 6 countries in Southeast Asia and were nice enough to check in with us all along the way.  This is their journey by the numbers:
21 – different airplanes they took
6 – bus rides (varying from 7 hours to 27 hour trips)
2 – train trips (overnight)
11 – boat/ferry [...]

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Loggerhead Turtles of North Captiva Island

August 26, 2009

On my most recent trip to North Captiva Island, I had the opportunity to go on a turtle walk with a conservationist volunteer who is responsible for reporting on sea turtle nests. It was a fascinating fact finding experience. We started before sunrise and walked for approximately 3 hours investigating turtle nests and [...]

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Guest Blog – Stacy & Jeff do SE Asia (31 of 40)

August 18, 2009

more on KL and on to bali
“KL, what a crazy unique city. at least to our eyes. the people, so many different people. we stayed in china town, in an indian owned place, ran by one of the manliest lady boys we’ve seen (indian) and these two other guys that had more going on [...]

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Guest Blog – Stacy & Jeff do SE Asia (26 of 40)

July 5, 2009

exploring cambodia…
“phnom penh roads are filled with cars. and not the little skinny asian cars that we’ve seen thus far, but big sudans, trucks, landrovers, 4-runners, escalades, and…wait for it…. brand new hummers cruising around (we’ve seen 3 so far). crazy. there’s a lot of money in this town, but with it [...]

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Guest Blog – Stacy & Jeff do SE Asia (24 of 40)

June 29, 2009

a new one…
we were just offered breast milk for our coffee.

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Guest Blog – Stacy & Jeff do Southeast Asia (9 of 40)

May 23, 2009

and we’re off…part 1
“before we knew it, mong (our local guide) charged down the hill with his basket on his back full of tons of food, water, a pot, and who knows what else…. we were told to follow with our little daypacks on our back, toil (our pai guide) following behind.
we started through farmlands, [...]

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Guest Blog – Stacy & Jeff do Southeast Asia (8 of 40)

May 21, 2009

the trek
“on our 3rd day here in pai we ventured out on a trek.  after seeing all the places in chiang mai we were getting kinda picky.  we didn’t want to just take a truck and get dropped off at the village and then turn around and get back on the truck.  thats’ what most [...]

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Guest Blog – Stacy & Jeff do Southeast Asia (5 of 40)

May 14, 2009

maggot soup
“we’re in bangkok!  our flights in and out of malaysia were a piece of cake – still a pain in the arse – but it went smoothly.  once at the brand new airport in bangkok, we received our 30 day visa and are good to go!  the airport is only 2 years old so [...]

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Guest Blog – Stacy & Jeff do Southeast Asia (4 of 40)

May 12, 2009

getting out
“well we have been in phuket for a while now. stacy dental work was a success and she is feeling better! we’ve been spending our days on the motor bike cruising around the island.
one day we went to the biggest buddah in thailand, then we also went to see a movie at the mall [...]

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Guest Blog – Stacy & Jeff do Southeast Asia (3 0f 40)

May 10, 2009

planes, trains and automobiles….
“seriously, 37 hours worth…. but we made it to phuket from bali in that short amount of time.
it all started sunday morning at 8 o’clock we went into to kuta from padang, returned our car and hitched a ride to the airport. from there we took asia air (a great cheap airline [...]

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Guest Blog – Stacy & Jeff do Southeast Asia (2 of 40)

May 8, 2009

surfs up in padang padang
“not really, well sorta.
after an amazing time in ubud we’re back down in padang. the beach is still beautiful. ubud was a great little place, definitely the hub for displaying their culture, foods, music, and mysticism. we had a great little place looking over some rice paddies, beautiful pool, delicious green [...]

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Travel Deals – Thailand Etiquitte

May 4, 2009

Your experience traveling through Thailand depends greatly on the amount of research you do before you venture overseas.  It is a very nuanced country whose culture is full of etiquette do’s and dont’s and tricks of the trade as far as avoiding getting caught up in local tourist traps and scams (both of these I’ll [...]

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