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  • About
    • The Odyssey Expedition
    • Graham David Hughes
    • Country Checklist
    • Why WaterAid?
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  • Odyssey Blog
    • Part I: Man of the World
      • 1. South America
      • 2. The Caribbean
      • 3. Central & North America
      • 4. Europe
      • 5. West Africa
      • 6. Central Africa
      • 7. Southern Africa
      • 8. East Africa
    • Part II: Top of the World
      • 1. The Middle East
      • 2. North Africa
      • 3. Central Asia
      • 4. Arabia
      • 5. South Asia
      • 6. East Asia
      • 7. Southeast Asia
      • 8. Australasia
    • Part III: End of the World
      • 1. Intermission
      • 2. Melanesia
      • 3. Polynesia
      • 4. Micronesia
      • 5. Return to SE Asia
      • 6. Marooned!
      • 7. The Final Frontiers
      • 8. The Journey Home
    • Epilogue
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Days 1,236-1,237: Escape From Khao San

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:5 June 2012
  • Post category:Malaysia/Return To Southeast Asia/Thailand/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:0 Comments

Sun 20.05.12–Mon 21.05.12: When you gotta go, you’ve gotta go. I don’t need The Hangover II to tell me that Bangkok is more addictive than crack. I could happily stay…

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Day 666: Such a Chill

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 October 2010
  • Post category:Indonesia/Malaysia/Southeast Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:5 Comments

28.10.10: I awoke with my teeth chattering like I was camping naked under the stars in Svalbard: my jumper, jeans, waistcoat, sleeping-bag AND blanket were not enough to shield me…

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Day 665: The Battle of Brunei II

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 October 2010
  • Post category:Brunei/Malaysia/Southeast Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:1 Comment

27.10.10: Urgh, I thought as my mobile blipped my alarm: not again.  Today’s mission – very much like last Wednesday’s, was to make it through bloody great boring Brunei.  By…

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Day 664: Return To Sanda

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 October 2010
  • Post category:Malaysia/Philippines/Southeast Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
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26.10.10: It was early afternoon before the ship pulled into Sandakan.  I’m now going to be backtracking over the exact route I took last week, so if you like you…

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Day 661: The People’s Republic of Spock

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 October 2010
  • Post category:Malaysia/Philippines/Southeast Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:3 Comments

23.10.10: I had purchased a AC ticket for the ferry to The Philippines.  I didn’t really know what the difference would be, but after sleeping in cockroach central on the…

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Day 660: A Tale Of Two Rangas

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 October 2010
  • Post category:Malaysia/Southeast Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:1 Comment

22.10.10: Another late night followed by another early morning: I ejected myself from by bunk at 7am and was already at the seaport for 8am, not that it made any…

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Day 659: Gods And Monsters

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 October 2010
  • Post category:Malaysia/Rants/Southeast Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:3 Comments

21.10.10: Up at 8am and onto the bus to Sandakan – the port town where the boat leaves for  country 182: The Philippines.  Happily, the bus left on time, but…

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Day 658: The Battle of Brunei I

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 October 2010
  • Post category:Brunei/Malaysia/Southeast Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
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20.10.10: Although when seven o’clock wheeled around with alarming speed I thought sod it and hit the snooze button.  Today I needed to fight my way through Brunei to the…

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Day 656: When I Left School

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:28 October 2010
  • Post category:Indonesia/Malaysia/Southeast Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
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18.10.10: Borneo.  The second biggest island in the world, home of the mighty orang-utan and some of the last virgin rainforest left on Earth.  It’s divided between three countries –…

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Day 651: Lion City

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:28 October 2010
  • Post category:Indonesia/Malaysia/Singapore/Southeast Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
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13.10.10: Singapore! World’s End!  You can get here all the way across the mega-continent of Eurasia from John O’Groats to Raffles via the Channel Tunnel, the Urals and the causeway…

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  • Part I: Man of the World
    • 1. South America
    • 2. The Caribbean
    • 3. Central & North America
    • 4. Europe
    • 5. West Africa
    • 6. Central Africa
    • 7. Southern Africa
    • 8. East Africa
  • Part II: Top of the World
    • 1. The Middle East
    • 2. North Africa
    • 3. Central Asia
    • 4. Arabia
    • 5. South Asia
    • 6. East Asia
    • 7. Southeast Asia
    • 8. Australasia
  • Part III: End of the World
    • 1. Intermission
    • 2. Melanesia
    • 3. Polynesia
    • 4. Micronesia
    • 5. Return to SE Asia
    • 6. Marooned!
    • 7. The Final Frontiers
    • 8. The Journey Home
  • Epilogue

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