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    Planet Kapow 06 : Puerto Vallarta to San Blas

    AND SO: Independence Day came upon us. Mexico’s Independence Day is usually a pretty big occasion but this year was special – it marked two hundred years since Father Miguel Hidalgo made his famous speech of defiance against the Spanish overlords who had ruled Mexico...

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    Planet Kapow 05 : Mazatlan to Puerto Vallarta

    OUR FERRY: from La Paz to Mazatlan turned out to be a decommissioned cruise ship, complete with disco, swimming pool, observation deck, bar and games room. Not a bad way to spend a night, even if we didn’t get a bed and were forced to...

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    Planet Kapow 04 : La Paz to Mazatlan

    The desert heat had sent us a little crazy, and we’d built La Paz into a mythical dreamland in our heads, a place where the bars heaved with the force of hundreds of drunken partygoers, where our toes would sink into the endless white sand,...

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    Planet Kapow 03 : Guerrero Negro to La Paz

    OUT INTO: the desert, and though we’d spent a Sydney winter dreaming of the heat, we hadn’t really prepared ourselves for it. We cut fairly pathetic figures as we stumbled into San Ignacio as the sun beat mercilessly down – dripping with sweat, haggard and...

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    Planet Kapow 02 : Tijuana to Colonet

    THE TUNNEL: that leads to the bridge that leads to Mexico is so low-key and inconspicuous that for a while we couldn’t even find it – we had to approach a cop to point it out to us. And across we went, no customs, no...

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    Video: Ping Pong Ka-Pow, Episode 3

    YES AND: now we’re cooking with gas in the third installment of the Ping Pong Ka-Pow series, as Adam, Erin and I push forward, out of Phnom Penh and up into Siem Reap and the temples of Angkor. Okay, Siem Reap is tourist-y, to an...

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