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RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)

ON A GROUP TOUR: WHO IS LEADING THE TROOPS Group tours are guided by an itinerary designed by the tour company. A schedule of activities is in the itinerary and a timeframe for execution. This is not to say every minute is planned. There are often slots of free time to pursue your own activities.Continue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)

ON A GROUP TOUR: IN THE ARMY NOW Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Cambodia in four days. 8 flights in 14 days. All this is an ambitious undertaking. In joining a tour group you lose a great deal of independence. You are a prisoner of an itinerary. Up at 4:30 a.m. to catch that ferry. AContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)

WHY THESE DESTINATIONS? Being a dedicated Europhile feeling most at home particularly in Portugal and Greece I have been willingly absconded to Southeast Asia by a “significant birthday” present and no I am not referring to 65…God no! Being an “Ugly Canadian” but not along the 1958 novel “The Ugly American” it is not theContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)

GETTING THERE Not brimming with excitement facing a 15 ½ hour flight from Toronto to Hong Kong with a two-hour layover waiting for a 3 ½ hour flight to Singapore. The outboard flight and connecting flights to Singapore on Cathay Pacific one of the three best airlines in world as awarded in by Skytrax inContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”