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		<title>Away From the Dust; Borann Lodge</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earl</dc:creator>
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		<title>Cheng Ho Hotel, Melaka: I Like This Place</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stay or Not Stay: Stay! Not to be confused with Cheng Hoe Hotel a few steps down in Jalan Tungkul Emas, this little hotel is near the Kampung Kling Mosque.  After spending a night at the overprice and certainly not good value Chong Hoe Hotel, I trooped to this place which had a sign at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1010545&amp;post=2732&amp;subd=weekendbackpacker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stay or Not Stay: Not Stay! I was supposed to stay two nights at my friend&#8217;s unused condo just outside the city but it seemed so empty as it hasn&#8217;t even been furnished yet.  There were just a few mattresses. It would have saved me a some ringgit but I was afraid of the emptiness [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1010545&amp;post=2729&amp;subd=weekendbackpacker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rice Balls at Restaurant Famosa</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eat or Not Eat: EAT! I&#8217;ve been to Melaka twice and both times I have  failed to get in.  I have not heard of Restaurant Famosa along Jonker Street but the long lines, strategic corner location, and tantalizing picture menus out front somehow meant that it was one of the best places to eat in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1010545&amp;post=2720&amp;subd=weekendbackpacker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Raising the Red Lanterns in Malaysia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I&#8217;ve since arrived from Malaysia (and before that, Cambodia) last Jan 12.  In celebration of Chinese New Year, I thought I&#8217;s post some pictures from my trip to Melaka and Kuala Lumpur.  I stayed at Chinatown in both places which means lots of really good Chinese and Peranakan (in the case of Melaka) food [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1010545&amp;post=2703&amp;subd=weekendbackpacker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stop&#8230; Look&#8230; Enjoy&#8230; KL. Seeing it again.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was my third trip to KL and if it were not for my friend, I would have stayed longer in Cambodia or would have stuck to my original plan of going back home to Manila via HCMC.  But I had booked my January 5 Air Asia flight from Phnom Pehn and there was no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1010545&amp;post=2683&amp;subd=weekendbackpacker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another Look at Phnom Pehn and Other Things To Do If You Think You&#8217;ve Seen It All</title>
		<link>http://weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/another-look-at-phnom-pehn-and-other-things-to-do-if-you-think-youve-seen-it-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cambodia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Pumpkin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phnom Pehn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what to do in Phnom Pehn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Phnom Pehn is a place that grows on you. Some people stay a couple of days then move on to other destinations in Cambodia.  Other simply miss it while a few just downright hate it.  Sights are few and far in between but like small cities, Phnom Pehn is best experienced slowly just lounging around [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1010545&amp;post=2660&amp;subd=weekendbackpacker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ratanakiri Report Part 4: The Death of a Pig and New Year&#8217;s Eve</title>
		<link>http://weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/ratanakiri-report-part-4-the-death-of-a-pig-and-new-years-eve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cambodia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banlung]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ratanakiri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tribal Hotel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Celebrating the coming of the New Year in a place other than your own is always interesting; more so if in another country and even double more so if in a remote part of another country.  Last year, I was with my eldest sister and two close friends at Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi.  There [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1010545&amp;post=2647&amp;subd=weekendbackpacker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ratanakiri Report Part 3: To Die a Jorai</title>
		<link>http://weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/ratanakiri-report-part-3-to-die-a-jorai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cambodia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andong Meas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jorai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ratanakiri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visiting villages in Ratanakiri]]></category>

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		<title>Ratanakiri Report Part 2: Around Beoung Yeak Loam, Riding an Elephant, and Dinner with the Tompoun</title>
		<link>http://weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/ratanakiri-report-part-2-around-beoung-yeak-loam-riding-an-elephant-and-dinner-with-the-tompoun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cambodia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banlung]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boeang Yeak Lom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crater lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ka Tieng]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ratanakiri]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[December 29.  Today was an easy day as Gita and I decided to head our own ways and stay within the vicinity of Banlung. Personally, I needed time for my butt to rest from the previous day&#8217;s excursion.  As of last night, Gita hadn&#8217;t yet decided if she would extend her stay or depart for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1010545&amp;post=2592&amp;subd=weekendbackpacker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ratanakiri Report Part 1: The Chinese in Voensai and the Dead in Kachon</title>
		<link>http://weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/ratanakiri-part-1-the-chinese-in-voensai-and-the-dead-in-kachon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earl</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kachon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minority villages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ratanakiri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tompoun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voensai]]></category>

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		<title>Banlung &#8211; Paint the Town Orange</title>
		<link>http://weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/banlung-paint-the-town-orange/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cambodia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banlung]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doy Yok]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ratanakiri]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kratie to Banlung wasn&#8217;t half as bad as Siem Reap to Kratie.  For one, it only took 5 hours and the road from the stretch of the turn-off all he way to Banlung was suprisingly good&#8212; by Cambodian and Ratanakiri standards.  The road is currently being upgraded which explain the relatively smooth going.  But it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1010545&amp;post=2563&amp;subd=weekendbackpacker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monks on a Mountain</title>
		<link>http://weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/monks-on-a-mountain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cambodia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[monks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phnom Kulen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com/?p=2553</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Who says monks can&#8217;t have a day out?  I took these pictures of a group of young monks on an apparent pilgrimage to Phnom Kulen more than 50k from Phnom Penh.  The mountain is sacred to the Khmer who venerate a cneturies-old sculpture of a lying Budhha hewn out of solid rock on the summit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1010545&amp;post=2553&amp;subd=weekendbackpacker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Little Island Across The Mekong</title>
		<link>http://weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/the-little-island-across-the-mekong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 06:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cambodia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Koh Trong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kratie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mekong]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com/?p=2529</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dec 27.  It has been 4 days since I left Manila and I feel I had not really done anything yet other than eating and taking long bus rides.  Mr. Korea (whom I had met at the bus to Kratie) and I were too stingy with our dollars to fork out the $26 required for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1010545&amp;post=2529&amp;subd=weekendbackpacker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stopping By The River in Kratie</title>
		<link>http://weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/stopping-by-the-river-in-kratie/</link>
		<comments>http://weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/stopping-by-the-river-in-kratie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 05:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cambodia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kratie]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com/?p=2514</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I arrived in Cambodia on Christmas Eve, I had been changing my travel plans.  Nothing major though that would alter what I have set out to do.  First was the extra day at Siem Reap and next was the sudden switch to break the bus ride from Siem Reap to Banlung at Kratie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1010545&amp;post=2514&amp;subd=weekendbackpacker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Up on Phnom Kulen and Down to Tonle Sap</title>
		<link>http://weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/up-on-phnom-kulen-and-down-to-tonle-sap/</link>
		<comments>http://weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/up-on-phnom-kulen-and-down-to-tonle-sap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cambodia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flooded forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kompong Chnang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pbnom Kulen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tonle Sap]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com/?p=2483</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was supposed to have been on my way to Kompong Cham on Christmas Day but decided instead to just stay put and spend an extra day at Siem Reap. I didn&#8217;t fancy another bus ride after the border crossing all the way from Bangkok.  The guy at the front desk came knocking on my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1010545&amp;post=2483&amp;subd=weekendbackpacker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surviving an 11-hour bus ride in Cambodia</title>
		<link>http://weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/surviving-an-11-hour-bus-ride-in-cambodia/</link>
		<comments>http://weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/surviving-an-11-hour-bus-ride-in-cambodia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cambodia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com/?p=2479</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After the red dust of Rattankiri, Phnom Penh seems so clean. The Sorya bus from Banlung was old and a little dilapidated inside bu the a/c was freezing!  What is it with Cambodian buses?  Worn-out upholstery, dirty aisles, almost no-existent suspension but the a/c is always cold.  Can&#8217;t complain really as a working a/c no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1010545&amp;post=2479&amp;subd=weekendbackpacker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Trip Begins: Misplaced Plane Seats, Sleeping at Suvarnabhumi, and Crossing to Cambodia</title>
		<link>http://weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/misplaced-plane-seats-sleeping-at-suvarnabhumi-and-sieam-reap/</link>
		<comments>http://weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/misplaced-plane-seats-sleeping-at-suvarnabhumi-and-sieam-reap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cambodia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com/?p=2476</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a sleepless night.  I had pre-paid my plane seat at my Cebu Pacific flight to Bangkok so I could snag seat 14F, window emergency seat, for better leg room.  Anyone who has taken a Cebu Pacific flight knows that its planes are one of the most notorious for its small seats and narrow [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1010545&amp;post=2476&amp;subd=weekendbackpacker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Baguio on a Weekday</title>
		<link>http://weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/baguio-on-a-weekday/</link>
		<comments>http://weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/baguio-on-a-weekday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 03:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baguio]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com/?p=2464</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I discovered Sagada and the surrounding areas in the Cordilleras, Baguio has meant nothing more than a stop to refuel a grumbling stomach, buy some stuff for the people back in Manila, or a transport hub.  Sad because in my childhood we always looked forward to Baguio for its cool climes, greenery, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weekendbackpacker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1010545&amp;post=2464&amp;subd=weekendbackpacker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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