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		<title>Beijing&#8217;s Newest Crown Jewel</title>
		<link>http://www.fliptravels.com/2010/07/beijings-newest-crown-jewel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few minutes away from Qianmen square via subway is the Olympic green. Right after Beijing&#8217;s event of the century in 2008, this became second most popular destination following the Great Wall. During the time of the Olympic events, we were in Hong Kong and pretending to attend the Olympics even though the only event in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the nameless three on a slow train to beijing</title>
		<link>http://www.fliptravels.com/2010/06/the-nameless-three-on-a-slow-train-to-beijing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the RMB coins from heaven, I immediately dialed the Philippine Consulate Office. That’s when I realized that it was a Saturday and there was no office. I called a hostel instead and finally got someone who can speak English. What a relief! But her guess was as good as mine, that a tourist information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cookie and the haphazard Backpacker</title>
		<link>http://www.fliptravels.com/2010/06/cookie-and-the-haphazard-backpacker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will be dedicating all my posts about my trip to China to the people I met on the road, people who helped me along the way, strangers who transformed my lonesome trip to a very meaningful journey.
I never tried doing lone backpacking before. It was three days before our flight to Shanghai when I found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>flip pockets: kota kinabalu</title>
		<link>http://www.fliptravels.com/2010/06/how-much-is-kota-kinabalu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fliptravels.com/2010/06/how-much-is-kota-kinabalu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After our Kota Kinabalu stint last April, we were asked the question &#8220;How much was the damage?&#8221; for God knows how many times. So we stole this idea of post trip accounting from Nina Fuentes of justwandering.org
So here you go, once and for all  

PART 1: MANILA TO CLARK 
The only Airline that flies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>slothful refuge</title>
		<link>http://www.fliptravels.com/2010/06/slothful-refuge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back to Kota Kinabalu from our gargantuan climb, we head off straight to the hostel to freshen-up, feast on a hearty dinner then went straight to a spa for a well deserved full body massage.
Upon lying down the massage table, we instantaneously went in to trans, and up to this point we can hardly remember [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mt. kinabalu (leg 4): conquering pain</title>
		<link>http://www.fliptravels.com/2010/06/mt-kinabalu-leg-4-conquering-pain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fliptravels.com/2010/06/mt-kinabalu-leg-4-conquering-pain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place.  ~Lance Armstrong
 As I approached Panar Laban, my feet gave in and I fell a few steps before I reached the door.I did not resist the fall. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mt. kinabalu (leg 3): braving the fear of mortality</title>
		<link>http://www.fliptravels.com/2010/05/mt-kinabalu-leg-3-braving-the-fear-of-mortality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fliptravels.com/2010/05/mt-kinabalu-leg-3-braving-the-fear-of-mortality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 19:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, now that the biggest Philippine soap is over (READ: Elections), We&#8217;re back to our regular programming:
&#8230; We sat in silence as we drowned ourselves with fresh mountain air. We rested our bodies and stretched our limbs and savored every moment of being on top of Mt. Kinabalu. As much as we wanted to spread [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mt. kinabalu (leg 2): overcoming the darkness</title>
		<link>http://www.fliptravels.com/2010/05/mt-kinabalu-leg-2-overcoming-the-darkness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fliptravels.com/2010/05/mt-kinabalu-leg-2-overcoming-the-darkness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 10:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I said to my soul, be still and wait&#8230; So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing&#8230; ~T.S. Eliot

I never realized I&#8217;d be able to survive the 7-hour climb to Laban Rata. Unlike Ron, I never vowed to quit smoking but decided to swear off mountain climbing for the rest of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mt. kinabalu (leg 1): testing endurance</title>
		<link>http://www.fliptravels.com/2010/05/mt-kinabalu-leg-1-testing-endurance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fliptravels.com/2010/05/mt-kinabalu-leg-1-testing-endurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 01:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 5am, We woke up to the smell of challenge. We carefully packed our day packs to bring only the essentials as the hike to Mt. Kinabalu dawned us. After downing our cups of coffee plus two sliced bread smothered with peanut butter and jelly, we headed out the door and walked two blocks to get [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>on the road</title>
		<link>http://www.fliptravels.com/2010/04/on-the-road/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, I want to apologize for not posting in the past three weeks. I guess &#8220;on the road blogging&#8221; is a talent, and in our case, a skill that is yet to be honed.
I am currently in the middle of non-English speaking China. Which part? believe me, I tried asking and all I got so [...]]]></description>
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