Travel Quotes: December 2023

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 "The memories of travel experiences that happened serendipitously usually lingered longer than those that were planned."


- Timothy Tan, author of this blog, tankstraveltales

Stop, goats ahead, Gopeng, Perak, Malaysia (2016)


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