Unwrapped travel

I was browsing through Lonely Planet’s Thorntree messageboard a few days ago and came across a handy review by Andy Brouwer of their new Guidebook to Cambodia by long-time Cambodia resident, Nick Ray. The review was pretty good — even if the comments rambled off into a typical Thorntree monotone. You can read the review [...]

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Five long years ago today Travelfish.org went live. To celebrate five years online, we’re running a Buy One Get One sale over at the Travelfish Guide store.
For each Travelfish Guide you buy, you can get another one for free. There’s no small print, there’s no catch — all you need to do is buy [...]

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Bali, INDONESIA: Travelfish, the online Southeast Asian travel specialists, launched on Monday their new 24-page downloadable guide to Laos’ temple-studded Luang Prabang, the latest in their series of titles navigating independent travellers around the region.
Laos is Southeast Asia’s latest hotspot, named by the New York Times as its top pick for a 2008 country destination, [...]

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We’ve just released our latest Travelfish Guide — for Kanchanaburi. The guide comprehensively covers the entire province, including Kanchanaburi town, Thong Pha Phum and Sankhlaburi. It weighs in at 17 A4 pages, four maps and over 23,000 words of tightly-packed travel intelligence, was researched on the ground in the second quarter of 2008 — so [...]

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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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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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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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Questions about travel money are among the most popular topics on the Travelfish message board, with people regularly asking about the how’s and where’s of travel cash. We think the best way to organise your money while travelling in Asia is to first become aware of the fees involved and then research the best card. [...]

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Being a travel writer is a dream job right? Our man on the ground in Vietnam took time out to put together this piece about what travel writing is to him. Give it a read and if you’re still thinking it sounds like a great job, then please get in touch — we’re currently on [...]

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We’ve just added a new entry into our new book reviews section, with in-depth look at Rough Guide’s latest guide for Laos (released early 2007). We didn’t think it was great, but if your still considering which guide to buy, you may find this guidebook review of interest. You can read the full review [...]

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