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From Seoul, SOUTH KOREA, Sept. 12, ’05. . .

• Hotel Incheon Airport. I made my reservation on the Internet after reading reviews of hotels close to the airport. I had a one-night layover. The cost of the room, $89, included airport pickup and dropoff.

The room was clean, comfortable, quiet and large, with a nice bathroom. The service was friendly and helpful. I’d stay here again.

My flight was the first one allowed to land after a typhoon (winds of 150 mph). The driver from the hotel told me it might take him a while to get to the airport because of the rain and wind....

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On TURKEY, December ’05. . .

• Took the tour...

On MALAYSIA, January-February ’06. . . • We took a tour to Borneo with smarTours (Newark, NJ; 800/337-7773 or www.smartours.com), Jan. 28-Feb. 11. We travel often, but this tour was one of the best. Malaysia is just beautiful. The people are very friendly and much fun. The flora, due to the climate, is lovely and colorful.

We went to watch orangutans in the Sepilok-Sandakan rainforest. We took longboats with little motors to longhouses, where we were invited to taste their moonshine and watch a headhunter war dance. We also met the last headhunter of that tribe, an old, quite funny...