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      • Ping Shan Heritage Trail
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      • Veggies and Rebellion
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      • The sweet smell of steam
      • Sunrise over Gunung Bromo
    • Laos
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      • Penang’s Living Art Gallery
      • Climbing Mt Kinabalu
      • North Borneo Railway
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      • High as a Kite
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      • Historic towns of the Sukhothai Kingdom
      • Sukhothai, The Cradle of Thai Civilisation
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      • An abandoned Hakka mansion
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Cambodia, others entry updates
Cambodia Malaysia News Thailand Vietnam 

Cambodia, others entry updates

18th March 20222nd May 2023 The Mango Road 0 Comments min read

Cambodia’s Ministry of Health has announced that fully vaccinated tourists will no longer be required to present a negative PCR test taken 72 hours before arrival.

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Thailand updates entry rules
News Thailand 

Thailand updates entry rules

24th February 20222nd May 2023 The Mango Road 0 Comments min read

The most significant change is the much hated mandatory hotel booking for a day five RT-PCR test has been changed to a rapid antigen self test..

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Vietnam to lift all restrictions
News Vietnam 

Vietnam to lift all restrictions

19th February 20222nd May 2023 The Mango Road 0 Comments min read

The country will fully reopen its borders for international tourism from March 15 the government announced

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Trans Bhutan Trail restored
Bhutan News 

Trans Bhutan Trail restored

15th February 20222nd May 2023 The Mango Road 0 Comments min read

Trans Bhutan Trail restored After an extensive restoration programme the historic Trans Bhutan Trail will reopen in April 2022 for

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Malaysia to open international borders
Malaysia News 

Malaysia to open international borders

15th February 20222nd May 2023 The Mango Road 0 Comments min read

March should see the reopening of Malaysia’s international borders to vaccinated travellers

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Bali to allow foreign visitors
Indonesia News 

Bali to allow foreign visitors

5th February 20222nd May 2023 The Mango Road 0 Comments min read

Bali to allow foreign visitors from all countries for the first time in almost two years. But tourists must still quarantine for 5 days

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Philippines to allow foreign visitors
News Philippines 

Philippines to allow foreign visitors

30th January 20222nd May 2023 The Mango Road 0 Comments min read

Secretary for Tourism Berna Romulo-Puyat has said the country will reopen its doors to foreign travellers from February 10.

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Thailand, Cambodia, entry requirements
Cambodia News Thailand 

Cambodia, Thailand entry requirements

23rd January 20222nd May 2023 The Mango Road 0 Comments min read

Cambodia, Thailand entry requirements updated Tourists to Cambodia who test positive for the omicron strain covid-19 will no longer be

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What future for Asia's old Railways?
Features Indonesia Malaysia Thailand 

What future for Asia’s old Railways?

15th January 20222nd May 2023 The Mango Road 2 Comments slider, Stories min read

What future for Asia’s old Railways? Early morning at Bangkok’s Hua Lamphong station is always a busy time. Overnight trains

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Laos opening with Green Zones
Laos News 

Laos opens with Green Zones

13th January 20222nd May 2023 The Mango Road 0 Comments min read

Laos opens with Green Zones The first phase of Laos reopening its borders to tourists began on January 1. Areas

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The corona virus has killed my news and events column so here is my Instagram feed until life returns to normal
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Looking along Yen Chow Street, Sham Shui Po as the Looking along Yen Chow Street, Sham Shui Po as the sun sets.
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Dragon Boat Festival, Tai O. . Both ceremonial and Dragon Boat Festival, Tai O.
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Both ceremonial and team boats parade through the village before the latter head out into the bay to participate in the races.
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Gamelan orchestra performing at the Kraton in Yogy Gamelan orchestra performing at the Kraton in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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Kwun Yum monastery sits on a hillside near the wes Kwun Yum monastery sits on a hillside near the western end of Lantau island, its bright red exterior a stark contrast to the surrounding green of the forest. The gentleman in the office there couldn't tell me what year it was built but said the monastery is about a hundred years old.
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Kwun Yum or Guanyin as she's known outside Hong Kong is the godess of mercy and compassion and is revered by both Buddhists and Taoists alike.
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Lantau Peak. At 934 metres (3,064 ft) above sea le Lantau Peak. At 934 metres (3,064 ft) above sea level the mountain is the highest point on Lantau island and the second highest in Hong Kong.
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Its Chinese name is Fung Wong Shan which means Phoenix Mountain. The cloud is obscuring the fact that it has two peaks, one is Fung Shan or male phoenix mountain, the other is Wong Shan which is female.
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Found this impressive butterfly waiting when I got Found this impressive butterfly waiting when I got home the other evening. It's a spangled swallowtail (papilio protenor) resting on the bougainvillea. The wing span is about twenty centimetres. They are actually quite common, I've just never seen one stay still long enough to take a picture of it before. I'm afraid I lack the patience of dedicated lepidoptera shooters.
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Happy Halloween, may all your nightmares come true Happy Halloween, may all your nightmares come true.

I found these gentlemen cavorting in the primeval forests near Lai Chi Wo in Hong Kong's New Territories.
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Being on the edge of a forest, with the South Lant Being on the edge of a forest, with the South Lantau wetlands just a gentle gust of wind away, I get quite a lot of interesting critters visiting the balcony. These two dragonflies make a colourful pair although their visits were actually a couple of weeks apart. Nevertheless I don't often see them stationary so I wondered if they had just recently metamorphosed and were still drying their wings.
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I did try to identify them but in both cases there were too many that look too similar. Feel free to comment if you have the answer.
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The Tang Ancestral Hall in Ha Tsuen village, near The Tang Ancestral Hall in Ha Tsuen village, near Tin Shui Wai, was built in 1749 to honour the village's two founding members, Tang Hung-chi and Tang Hung-wai. It is a large complex with three halls separated by two courtyards. The ancestral tablets are enshrined on an altar at the back of the rear hall whilst other historic relics and plaques are in the middle hall.
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In the early twentieth-century a guest house and the Yau Kung School were added. The former to to provide accommodation for guests and the latter for the education of clan children. As the number of students grew the guesthouse was used as dormitories for teachers and the halls themselves were used as classrooms.
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A shrine to Man Cheong (God of Literature) and Mo Kuk (God of Martial Arts) by the guest house is still used for sacrificial offerings. The hall remains an important venue for clan events and ceremonies while the school buildings are now used for meetings.
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The common house or Asian gecko (Hemidactylus fren The common house or Asian gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus) is a welcome guest most of the time because they eat unwelcome guests such as mosquitoes. They are about 7-15 centimetres long, depending on age, and can stick to walls, ceilings and just about anything else.
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This one lives on my balcony wall. It had just caught something by the looks of it but it didn't hang around long enough for me to see what.
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Ruishi Lou towers over the village of Jinjiangli a Ruishi Lou towers over the village of Jinjiangli about 12 kilometres southwest of Chikan town, Kaiping in southern China. The towers, collectively known as diaolou, were built mostly during the late 19th and early 20th century, though there are a few that date back as far as the 16th.
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The older diaolou were built specifically as watchtowers to guard against invading bandits and to give refuge during floods. The more recent ones still served that function but also served as family homes. These were built by returning emigrants who had made their fortunes in other parts of the world. The designs reflected the newly acquired cosmopolitan tastes of their owners combined with traditional Chinese elements.
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Ruishi was built in 1926 by Huang Bixiu, a villager who had left and made his fortune in Hong Kong as a merchant. It has nine floors each with it's own living space kitchen and bedrooms.
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The Jinjiangli village and it's diaolou along with several other clusters in the region were made UNESCO World Heritage sites in 2007
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Evening view across Deep Bay towards the Chinese c Evening view across Deep Bay towards the Chinese city of Shenzhen. The tide was very much in and all the boats were out.
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Ching Chung Koon Monastery, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong . Ching Chung Koon Monastery, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong
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Cherry pickers meet in secret behind the banana pa Cherry pickers meet in secret behind the banana palms in Hong Kong's New Territories.
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The machines are actually idle. There are a number of companies in the New Territories which rent or sell equipment to the construction industry. Their yards, filled with silent machinery, can sometime look quite surreal.
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Under normal circumstances, pre-covid, the pretty Under normal circumstances, pre-covid, the pretty little town of Hoi An, in Vietnam, would be heaving with tourists. The best time to enjoy it was before breakfast. At that time you only had to share it with influencers and the occasional film or TV crew.
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I caught this trio idling in the water, chatting amongst themselves, while their film crew fiddled with the camera. I have no idea if they were making a period drama or televison commercial but the pastel shades looked good in the thin early morning light so I snuck a shot of my own.
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Stonecutters Bridge, Hong Kong. At 1,596 metres it Stonecutters Bridge, Hong Kong. At 1,596 metres it was the second longest cable-stayed bridge in the world when it opened in 2009. Spanning the Rambler Channel it helps to connect Sha Tin, Cheung Sha Wan and Tsing Yi island with Lantau Island and the airport.
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Hua Lamphong station, Bangkok, Designed by Italian Hua Lamphong station, Bangkok, Designed by Italian architect Mario Tomagno and opened in 1916. Sadly the days of this beautiful old station, with its graceful arched roof and Romanesque columns, are numbered. Services will be moved to a new transport hub at Bang Sue which will also be the terminal for the new high speed rail network. Hua Lamphong, or part of it,  will be turned into a railway museum.
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Boats stretch out across the western end of the Ts Boats stretch out across the western end of the Tsing Yi Channel with Ting Kau Bridge and the Tsing Ma Bridge in the the distance.
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The Tsing Ma bridge has two decks with three lanes of traffic each way on the top. A railway with a single lane each way for emergency road traffic is inside. Its main span is 1,377 metres (4,518 ft) and it opened for traffic on 22 May 1997. Ting Kau is a 1,177-metre (3,862 ft) long cable-stayed bridge which opened on May 5 1998.
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Rainbow children at the rainbow village. Kampung P Rainbow children at the rainbow village. Kampung Pelangi or Rainbow Village is an idea that has become popular across indonesia as an inexpensive way to brighten up less affluent parts of the cities and also attract a few visitors. This one is in Semarang, Java.

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