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This transcript was automatically created and has not be read or edited by our team.  Hi, I'm Alexa and I'm Rory. And together we are The ROAMies. We are married... to each other. Right. We are a touring musical duo, and our music has taken us to all kinds of places all around the world and keeps us always on the go. So we hope you enjoy our stories and adventures while running around working to keep all your plates spinning. And we hope to facilitate your busy lifestyle and feed your inner travel bug. In today's episode, you're going to hear us chatting with our new friend Colette with Journey Pacific. She's the managing director, and Colette is very fun to speak with and a journey Pacific. They help with travel anywhere, but they specialise in Australia and New Zealand and South Pacific. So you are going to hear our conversation with collect at the San Diego Travel and Adventure. Roy

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and I were looking to go to Singapore this year this year, and I'm thinking, if we're going to spend the money and the time to go to Singapore, maybe we need to go to some other places that are gonna be around it. So we maximise our time there. So like

spk_2:   1:19
but we know nothing about that part of the world because we've never been here. Okay, but I know Singapore's a new country kind of or is it a country? It's a country and it's not new. It's been there for a long, long time. But it's very It feels new because it's very, very clean. But with it being very clean and more newish than some of the other place,

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more modern,

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yet more modern. It's not got that cultural type. I feel that you might want to if you go to Thailand or Cambodia, Vietnam and it's very easy to get from those from Singapore, 20 of those You could take a train through Malaysia, Thailand overnight train the cultural thing. So in Singapore for us, as Americans were more like familiar versus us going somewhere like Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, which it takes us back thousands of years in history or whatever. If you Singapore doesn't have like when you go to Cambodia and you go to Angkor Wat - you've got the old temples and is still very modern cities and you can still get all the amenities that you need to get in any city, but you don't have that antique culture. There's these millions of years old -type temples, you know, that kind of thing- So I always say mix the modern.  The old with the new. It kind of makes a nicer vacation. Kind of mix it up. Same thing - of, like, mix a city with a beach. So if you're gonna do a vacation, get some city, some beach, some culture, some modern, some great foods. You know, just try and do as much as you can on your trip.  food. Okay, so that makes me think so. When you're out of these areas that are more remote with temples, you stay in the area. And if so, you get to experience the cultural food or you better in the city to experience that and then make day trips out on It depends because you could do both. When you go up to Angkor Wat,  you would actually

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know Where is that

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uncle what is in Cambodia? So I'm saying that because that's really famous temples. That's where Indiana Jones was filmed- and Tomb Raider with Angelina Jolie Jungle Temple, that kind of thing. They filled in that area, and it's very amazing on that excavating this area's massive. They're still excavating it and they're still finding all the old temples. So you can go out there. You can spend a couple of days out there, but you would actually stay in the town and do that as a day trip from the town. Okay, And then the town, that particular town with the M temples survives amazing food like food, food, eateries, loads, just hundreds of restaurants, hundreds of massage places we get like Sarge is $7. I mean, I was travelling with my dad, and my dad is 70 years old and never had a massage until we got to Thailand's Cambodia Vietnam, and he became like a massage junkies. Come on. He was having a massage every single night and he'd say to me in the morning, So shall we have a massage before?

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Given that you're gonna have a massage,

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Second books, why not? And he thought it would be planning his day before we've even had breakfast. He wanted to go with the mass searches before after dinner. So instead of planning his day around meals, it was male massage. Then it would be should I have a neck massage? A full body massage. My search. So do they. Are they, like, twisted like pretzels and walking on your your Yeah, I kind of like to put my search thing. They put in water and they come and they poke it with a stick. What you think? I mean? It could be a bit painful sales, really, But at the same time, it makes you feel good after because the pain has stopped. I don't know what it was

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like when we were in Finland and we were in the sound of a wanted US Tio. They said It's traditional tipped herself. Birch limbs. Yeah, really sound. And

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we said, Why is he so good? They said, because it's nice when you stop. Yeah, that sounds about right. So travelling to and from these places, is it expensive? What's expensive way to do it the best way you think of the most fun way on. I just generally speaking, look at the dates you want to travel, give you options, so to go to Singapore direct with Singapore Airlines might be more expensive than go in by a China With China Airlines, things usually more direct flights can end up more expensive. If you book early and give yourself enough advance warning, you can keep an eye out for specials and then you get a pretty cheap between countries. Like, for instance, where we want to go to Vietnam or Cambodia. You're welcome. Before you go, never wait last minute because they do fill up on DH again. Early yearbook, generally speaking to cheaper it is. And I've got a place, you know, 50 bucks and below, You know, between the countries, you

spk_1:   6:03
know, it's kind of like a Ryanair that we've experienced in London. And I think that that exactly so if it is like a $50 flight, are you also paying for baggage and all this stuff, like a lot of time

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on the I mean, if your plane Thai Airways, one of some of the little ones. Well, tyre was a big one. It is an international carrier. Usually get your free baggage. If it's one of the domestic carriers normally would have to pay for baggage, even even a carry on. No, you normally okay with carry on. But some of the carry ons smaller out there than what way so

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that be important to measure your luggage before you leave the US If you're us, this's

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my size, my weight. So but But more importantly, do you think? Have you ever seen Indiana Jones or Angelina Jolie? Because I'm thinking this could be really cool trip, not seen them there. Okay, that's disappointing. Disappointing? No. Haven't seen them. Wouldn't change.

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Subject. Where's the most beautiful places that you've experienced yourself in that part of

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the world? That's a hard one eye

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between Cambodia, so like options that we might have coming in and out of Singapore. What are your favourites?

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How long you been in Vietnam? It's north of Hanoi. It's is a UNESCO, so it's one of the United Nations environmentally protected place, and it's that one. You'll have seen pictures. It's it's ocean, but it's got this big pillars of like line. You can go out there and stay on a junk boat that jug boats and each vote might hold 10 2030 people the difference of them, and you go out and spend the night to soothe. Tonight they're a bit on the boat. A man on the bed, like a place to soothe problem. Having large very yeah, but the only hole, maybe 10 20 cabins. But they're only, like, very basic. Thank you. You couldn't get like, I mean, like single men to sit between them, For example. You know, I was showing them having, with my dad's way, have a single bed option If it was a double bed, you know, you could probably get in and out of it from the end of it versus walking side, because they're having a tiny but they all have the balcony. You know, you walk out once about have amazing food on them. You totally looked after food Wythe morning. They have. What's that, Tiki? You know, the tight You're touching the manila yet with little Vietnamese man leading it. Having a 70 year old dad doing that is definitely one of the highlights of my trip. Yeah, but then when you go out on the two day trip and this is where the majority of the tollbooth one night, But when you did the two nights, you can actually go out further away from all that touristy people and you get Teo, take just caves that still extremely on, explored on there's a lake on the top of one of freshwater lakes on the top of this mountain is the weirdest thing. Felix. Really beautiful sounds. And then you get to do the pearl farming. If you've never been took from you, they have these pearl farms out there within this area. You're in the ocean, and they actually you can get off and go to one of these pills. And they show you how they make the pearls and how they put a piece of sand in the inserted surgically intothe oyster things. And then they leave in the drop into the ocean and date them and they call him up. Two years later, whatever. Crack him. Open, safe standing. I've always seen the pictures of those mountains you're talking about. You know, the hills and the water always want to go that. So do they have pirates there? Because it seems like in the movies pirates No. Good. Okay,

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I'm gonna ask you a real question again. So I love movies. I'm a very picky eater, so I'm an adventurer. But when I comes to food, I'm kind of picky, and I feel like, OK, some a lot picky. I feel like I probably be eating a lot of rice, and I'm good with that. But like you talk about all the good food, how would our stomachs do over there? Like, how long do you need for your body here to adjust? Or are there certain things like don't drink the water or don't eat fresh vegetables? You know, like, what's gonna be turn America and stomach? What? What's gonna be safe yet? Good question. I never

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drink the water. I don't even drink the ice. I always have bottled water and always purchase but water and asked for drinks with no ice, just in case. Yeah, when it comes to the food, the race and the noodles, basin noodles are staples, and then they do the meats and the veg in the sources on top, generally or in Vietnam, for example, the big food, which is It's like a bowl of soup with noodles in it, and that's really good. You won't have any issues, some of wise on that. You just have to be careful. If you're not used to hot spicy, you need to make you need to ask on the menu what's not tough, spicy. Tell him you want to tell you made my dad at a chilly thing, but

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then they have

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really good stuff. They have really unique stuff. Like we went to a place in They were in psych on No Saigon. On it was a famous little coffee shop where you went, you had to line up to get busy. Then everybody around our little bean bags and drank egg coffee is coffee with egg egg. So they were top eggs, like they got old fools of egg and they wait until it was really creamy and fluffy. And then they like a more Yeah, and they kind of put that. But they have the yellow of the eggnog, just the way the whole the whole leg went in your coffee. Oh, everybody. I mean, it was popular was a good bit bizarre. I've never had a cup of coffee in my life. I think that what

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I think I would be drinking tea there if they had that be

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with you for tearing that interesting choice. But there's so many places out there. So when you're talking about where you want to go, if you add Singapore yes, with mentioned Cambodia, for the temples is amazing. In Vietnam. You've got a long day, and then you've got some Saigon and Hanoi. I took a train between them and overnight train. So alien and these speeches. So I'm in the middle of Vietnam. But if you went the other way to Malaysia, you could go out to Thailand. There's just so many places you need to figure out whether you want the beaches when he wants to see the rice paddies of Chang Mai Chang Rai, where you're right on top of an elephant head. Well, they have to be careful right now about what you're doing with the elephants is a lot of cool to going on out there that we're trying to avoid. The elephant experiences are just to keep them safe. But then there's so many places around there that you really have to narrow down what it is that you're interested in. Yeah, you're right. It's a whole part of the world we've never explored yet. Yet that's right. But

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we shall, with

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the help of collect, we shall prosper in our exploration

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way. Love Colette because she's a fellow redhead and she's super cute and fun. So thank you, Colette. We really appreciate your time.

spk_2:   13:36
Welcome. Very welcome. Anytime. Thank you. Way

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