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The five basic rules for bus travel in South East Asia

There are many ways to get underneath the skin of the country you're traveling in, but one of the most effective ways is to spend your time using local public transportation. My motivation for traveling as the locals may have been economic, but the result is a crash course in local culture.

Charlotte Halligan gets to grips with the blood-sucking fiends in the world's oldest rainforest.

I have learned something new: leeches move like ‘Slinkys.’ And when they sense you approaching they stand to attention and wave backwards and forwards like a finger beckoning you toward them.