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  • kochang1

    3 + 1: Erin

    In the 3 + 1 section we’ll be asking all sorts of people to delve deep into their memory banks – and memory cards – to answer two questions – what have been the three greatest travel experiences of your life? And where in the world have...

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    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 16

    TIBET LAY: before us, and though the distances were incredible, the travel times mindboggling, the costs far too high, we somehow thought we would get there. It had been the dream from the start – out of Thailand, through China, into Tibet, and then on...

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  • yunnan_shangrila

    Video: Ping Pong Ka-Pow, Episode 15

    AND HERE: we are now, high in the mountains of central China, in the never-before-seen episode 15 of Ping Pong Ka-Pow. Tiger Leaping Gorge had given us a taste of the change from southeast Asian jungle to the icy Chinese mountainscapes that were to become...

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  • SANY1358

    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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