Image via Wikipedia Of the four countries visited I really came for Vietnam as it was the one I’d heard the most about, even if mostly through the movies. Thailand I’d visited before and Cambodia was purely required to visit Angkor Wat. The one I knew the least about turned out to be the most [...]
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Home – Bangkok, Thailand
Image via Wikipedia Took a 35 minute flight from Siem Reap to Bangkok, arriving in town on the same day as the World Tapioca Conference 2009. Fatigue from the last few weeks set in so did almost nothing all day then headed out for a drink in the very fancy Vertigo bar atop the Banyan [...]
New Years Day – Siem Reap, Cambodia
A strangely subdued team got together far too early in the morning for a trip out to supposedly the most beautiful of the temples – a pink sandstone creation. It turned out to be a very unphotogenic pile of rubble and we spent the time trying to wake up whilst comparing stories from the New [...]
New Years Eve – Siem Reap, Cambodia
Spent the day wandering round the temples in the Angkor Wat complex. Started off in Ta Prohm, the overgrown temple made famous by the Tomb Raider movies. Moved on to the Bayon which is covered in faces of various rulers. Finally we came to the highlight of the trip, Angkor Wat. For New Years Eve [...]
Spiders – Siem Reap, Cambodia
Today we had the drive from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap (which means Siam Defeated, in recognition of them stealing it from Thailand). On the way we stopped at an ordinary looking truck stop where a lady sat out front selling from a bucket of deep fried spiders, crickets and other bugs. Having eaten crickets [...]
Killing Fields and geckos – Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Breakfast was good, having found sausages, baked beans and HP Sauce for the first time in 3 weeks. Sat up on the roof terrace you could see out over the river and into a selection of nearly homes. I spent the morning eating franks and beans whilst trying to avoid watching a man scrub his [...]
Cambodia – Phnom Penh, Cambodia
View Larger Map It took 4 forms, $25, 14 stamps and 2 hours queuing to get through Cambodian immigration and customs before we met our soppy new guide for the drive to the capital Phnom Penh. On the drive on our guide pointed at a beautiful hotel and said we were over there. What he [...]
Digging – Chau Doc, Vietnam
Leaving the home stay we dropped in at a brick factory for some reason then carried on to the port to catch the ferry to Can Tho, the capital of the Mekong Delta. Here we had to wait a while for the bus in the rain so dripping wet started our 6hr bus ride to [...]
Home Stay – Mekong Delta, Vietnam
A slow 3hr drive got us to the Mekong Delta, where we switched to a long boat for another 3hr trip along the river. A brief stop at a rice popping workshop was as interesting as it sounds (think Vietnamese Rice Krispies) but did get us our first taste of Snake Wine, made with the [...]
Christmas – Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Started Christmas Day with a trip to church, a copy of the Notre Dame Cathedral but in red brick. Rather than the usual Christmas carols today was devoted to curing the sick and infirm, so we wandered amongst the damaged and bewildered, fitting in nicely. This was followed by a sombre visit to the War [...]
