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	<title>Tim Leffel&#039;s Cheapest Destinations &#187; Cheap Asia Travel</title>
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		<title>Mumbai&#8217;s Taxi Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my many vivid negative memories of India is arriving in Bombay after a 36-hour train ride that was supposed to be 24 hours, only to get in a huge blow-up argument with a taxi driver who tried to charge us double the correct fare for a ride in his beat-up jalopy. Most of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Travel Assumptions Die Hard</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Once a place becomes a pariah destination, it&#8217;s pretty hard to dig out of that hole. Blame it on sensationalist cable TV or our brain&#8217;s constant search for patterns and shortcuts, but once war-torn regions stay that way in people&#8217;s minds even after a decade of peace.
There&#8217;s a great piece on this subject on MSNBC.com [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bia Hoi in Vietnam</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vietnam probably wouldn&#8217;t come near the top of your list when thinking of great beer cultures, but this country actually has some of the cheapest beer in the world. No, you can&#8217;t get a local hop-heavy microbrew or an ink-black stout, but if you care more about what kind of quantity your travel dollar will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fun While It Lasted &#8211; a Strong Travel Dollar</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cheap Africa Travel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a contrarian traveler is a lot like being a contrarian investor. The latter buys when everyone else is panicking and sells when everyone else is euphoric. If you followed that strategy as I did and pumped up your stock or mutual fund holdings in late 2008, you are looking a whole lot brighter than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Censored Internet in Southeast Asia</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/09/15/your-censored-internet-in-southeast-asia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cheap Asia Travel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether you are traveling with a netbook or popping into cyber cafes, there&#8217;s one aspect of your online experience you don&#8217;t hear much about in cheery travel articles: censorship of your surfing. You won&#8217;t encounter much in some destinations, such as Indonesia, but if you go online in Vietnam you may as well be in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aliens, Spiritualists, and Motorbike Taxis</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/09/01/aliens-spiritualists-and-motorbike-taxis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cheap Asia Travel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do these three things go together? In the latest issue of Perceptive Travel of course. Toss in acrobats, clairsentinents, and bossa nova singers and you&#8217;ve got something bearing no resemblance to Travel &#38; Leisure.
Saigon resident Richard Sterling returns with A Dollar and a Dime in Vietnam
David Lee Drotar returns with Signs of Alien Life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Round-up of Travel News and Deal Advice</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/08/19/round-up-of-travel-news-and-deal-advice/</link>
		<comments>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/08/19/round-up-of-travel-news-and-deal-advice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cheap Asia Travel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On deadline for some articles right now, so I&#8217;m linking to useful info from elsewhere.
Over at Transitions Abroad, Nora Dunn looks at the motivation for long-term travel, profiling six people/couples/families who have been on the move for years.
The editor of International Living flits back and forth between homes in Mexico and Ecuador. Here&#8217;s his mouth-watering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costs for a Day at the Beach: Towel and Sand Bucket Index</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/08/17/costs-for-a-day-at-the-beach-towel-and-sand-bucket-index/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A key theme running throughout the books I&#8217;ve written is that your destination decisions&#8212;and where you stay and eat after you get there&#8212;are the key factors determining what you are going to spend when you travel. No matter what you spend on airfare, a trip to Place A can easily cost you two or three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheapest Places to Live: Malaysia</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/08/13/cheapest-places-to-live-malaysia/</link>
		<comments>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/08/13/cheapest-places-to-live-malaysia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cheap Asia Travel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this popular cheapest places to live 2009 post I did a while back, I briefly mentioned Malaysia as one of the best deals in Asia for expats. It has distinguished itself from its neighbors by formally welcoming foreigners&#8212;well, at least those with some money.
It&#8217;s My Second Home program is a clear signal that they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The State of the Travel Dollar, Summer 2009</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/07/14/the-state-of-the-travel-dollar-summer-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/07/14/the-state-of-the-travel-dollar-summer-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cheap Asia Travel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am quoted in the current issue of National Geographic Adventure, if you happen to be near a newsstand, in a pictorial feature about where the dollar is faring better this summer than it was a year ago. My list of deal destinations would have been a bit different than what is listed in the [...]]]></description>
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