Unwrapped travel

As you may have noticed, we’ve altered the page-layout for the “country introduction” pages on Travelfish. The new pages can be seen here:

Cambodia
Laos
Singapore
Thailand
Vietnam

You’ll see we’ve altered the navigation, so now the left column has links to all the destinations in the particular country, followed by (depending on the country) a number of advertisements. What used [...]

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Yeah I know it’s a spammy headline, but it’s true — make use of the Discovery Airpass and you could well fly around SE Asia on the cheap. We’ve just put a new feature on the site explaining just how the Discovery Airpass gives you cheap flights in Asia.

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We’ve heard, second hand, of a confirmed independent crossing at the Thailand/Laos border crossing at Ban Huay Kon / Muang Ngoen.
The border had been open for ages to Thais doing 4WD “adventure tours” up to Luang Prabang but we’d been told by the TAT that “there were no plans whatsoever for the crossing to [...]

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You’ve probably noticed that most pages on Travelfish have a block of adverts, with a bunch of text links, or, in some cases an image ad, with a small logo reading “Ads by Google”
These ads are one of the ways Travelfish earns its keep — each time a Travelfish reader clicks on one of these [...]

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I got up this sunny Saturday morning to the following question on the Travelfish forum for Vietnam:
Phu Quoc - what is it REALLY like?
We are planning to go to Phu Quoc for 6 days at the end of a 17 day holiday this Christmas. I’ve read in several places how beautiful and unspoiled etc it [...]

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Despite there being a link to the blog on the bottom of every page of Travelfish, sometimes I just forget to post — but I didn’t realise it had been so long! January! My most humble apologies.
So here we are May 1, I won’t bore you with a three month update, but in summary, we’ve [...]

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