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We are in Southeast Asia with Tauck right now (January 2013). Follow my blog if you're interested:
http://blog.travelpod.com/travel-blog/spoonball/5/tpod.html
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Some commentary about traveling here:
1. Manage your expectations about luxury travel with Tauck here. They do the best they can but some things are just beyond their control … like flight schedules and public bathrooms. Hotels are lovely, meals are mostly very good but these countries are poor and underdeveloped (esp. Vietnam). Roads, pollution, sanitation and other issues abound.
2. Bring tons of medicines to handle digestive infections (Cipro, for instance); cold and allergy medications, etc. Hardly a person on the tour went unscathed. Pollution (esp. in Vietnam) showed up as sinus infection, upper respiratory issues, disguised as colds. And traveling in underdeveloped countries brings a risk of dysentery, of course. These issues were still catching up with our comrades as they were departing for their homelands.
3. You can’t have too much or too many tissues, wet wipes or hand sanitizer. Ship a crate ahead of time. ;-)
Check out my blog if you'd like details:
http://blog.travelpod.com/travelblog/spoonball/5/tpod.html
I'm not sure if we will go to SE Asia or not. Right now, we are still very deeply involved in our love affair with Africa. However, if we do consider such a trip, I will go back and reread your blog first. Thank you for providing such wonderful adventure stories for us...Leo M.
Look forward to hearing from you about precautions suggested by your travel doctor.
We are also on the March 15th tour.
After reading your blog, I was wondering if anyone on your trip had an Iphone and if they were able to connect to wi-fi in the hotels. I am traveling by myself and am definitely challenged by all the phone/internet jargon. My son-in-law says it will work with global service added to send and receive texts, but I sure would feel better if I heard from someone first hand!!!
Thanks to anybody that might know for sure.