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Why we are driving next time

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  • Planning
  • South East Asia
Jul 28 2013
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The following are accepted facts when booking transport in Cambodia: Two hours will mean four… or more. Descriptions like ‘VIP’ and ‘Air-con’ are unrelated to the actual trip you are booking (they are simply added to make the sign eye-catching) Booking a ‘seat’ does not guarantee and actual seat, contortionist manoeuvres may be required We were told the journey from Kampot to Saigon would be about 8 hours, we thought 12 was probably a more reasonable estimate. We thought wrong…

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Bike thief

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  • Photo Friday
  • South East Asia
Jul 19 2013
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Photo Friday—Local wildlife

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Cousteau in Cambodia

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  • South East Asia
Jul 01 2013

Sihanoukville. Both one of the best and worst places we visited on our last trip.

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Angkor Wat?

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  • South East Asia
Jun 17 2013

To visit an historical site in New Zealand often means a visit to a Māori pā site which will involve standing in a grassy field, or on a headland, looking at a ditch which marks an old fence line, perhaps another which denotes a storage area. Don’t get me wrong it’s always interesting, standing there in a spot where history was made. Even a grassy field can be enough to bring that history to life in your mind. But New Zealand (like the name suggests, good branding decision there guys) is a pretty new country. We don’t have stone structures from […]

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The temples of Angkor in infrared

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  • South East Asia
May 22 2013
[Part of our revisiting Southeast Asia series]  
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Ghosts of Cambodia’s past

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  • South East Asia
May 18 2013
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The city of Phnom Penh has so many other things to offer, but as you walk past the rows of waiting tuk-tuk drivers you hear the repeated chant of ‘Killing field’ ‘Genocide museum’ it soon becomes apparent where the bulk of tourists are expected to head.

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Would you like fried tarantula with that?

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  • South East Asia
Apr 29 2013
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The sun was setting and the tuk-tuk drivers were swarming… welcome to Phnom Penh.

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Dragonfly

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  • South East Asia
Mar 20 2013
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