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Elephant Rodeo

How to keep fit? How to look good on the road? How do I connect with the locals? These are the kinds of burning issues that keep the backpackers of today tossing sleeplessly in their bunk beds. Luckily help is at hand. Huge in Asia, the guys behind one of our all time favorites (The Hanoi Hustle) come to us as 'The Travel Doctors'.

Here they dole out fitness advice and then put their own recommendations to the test at an elephant rodeo. Check out the video here.

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The second in the series covers fashion, Vietnam style.