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  • ep17-3

    Video: Ping Pong Ka-Pow, Episode 17

    PART TWO: of our five day trip along the Szechuan-Tibet Highway, as we leave Litang for the comfort of a warm bath, only to be assaulted by a mob of hyperactive kids wielding large inflatable hammers in a shitty pizza joint in Kangding. This was...

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    Video: Ping Pong Ka-Pow, Episode 14

    AND SO: after traveling through the golden beaches of Thailand, the radiant fields of Laos and the alluring jungles of Cambodia, it is in China, where we least expect it, that we find the most beautiful and awe-inspiring place of all. Tiger Leaping Gorge. I...

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  • SANY1229

    Video: Ping Pong Ka-Pow, Episode 13

    TOURIST TRAPS: abound in most places of the world, and so long as you can get in and out quickly and cheaply they can often be guiltily enjoyable. Trouble is, though, that often you find yourself wandering into a town, oblivious to its reputation, and...

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  • china2

    Video: Ping Pong Ka-Pow, Episode 12

    MORE THAN: any other country I’ve visited, China is a perfect illustration of the virtues of hitting the roads, of seeing a people and a civilization live and in the flesh. For a lot of people I know, people who came of age in the...

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  • namtha

    Video: Ping Pong Ka-Pow, Episode 11

    AND NOW: we’re gone, up out of southeast Asia, rumbling through the last stretch of Laotian jungle, green and screetching, before our entry to China in the 11th episode of the Ping Pong Ka-Pow series. In our last week in the country, suddenly conscious of our steadily...

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  • vangvieng

    Video: Ping Pong Ka-Pow, Episode 10

    HALFWAY THROUGH: this southeast Asian odyssey now, and we find ourselves on the other side of the looking glass in the 10th episode of Ping Pong Ka-Pow. Vang Vieng in Laos was utterly surreal – the most grotesque and beautiful place we had come across....

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  • ppkp9

    Video: Ping Pong Ka-Pow, Episode 9

    “I WAS: like, this is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen… I just woke up, and I was here.” Stoned on weird Thai sleeping tablets, we arrive in Vientiane, Laos, in the 9th episode of Ping Pong Ka-Pow, having departed Thailand for the last...

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  • ppkp8

    Video: Ping Pong Ka-Pow, Episode 8

    OH, THAILAND: our home for so long, was disappearing beneath our feet, beneath the hull of our longboat, beneath the bald tyres of our rattling bus. The 8th episode of the Ping Pong Ka-Pow journey would be our last together in Thailand; Adam would return...

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  • ppkp7

    Video: Ping Pong Ka-Pow, Episode 7

    STILL ON: the loop around northern Thailand, we finally reach the traveller’s mecca of Pai, in the 7th episode of the Ping Pong Ka-Pow series. After hearing people all over Thailand rave about Pai, it didn’t quite live up to the hype, especially having come...

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  • ppkp6

    Video: Ping Pong Ka-Pow, Episode 6

    IT’S DECEMBER: of 2008, now, in the 6th episode of the Ping Pong Ka-Pow odyssey, and as we get into the mountains of northern Thailand it’s starting to get a bit cold. So cold, in fact, that I decide it would be a good idea...

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