In the small Cambodian town of Skuon these creepy crawlies are a common snack, and any tourist sitting at a cafe may get a nasty fright when they first see the large plates of deep fried spiders being carried around, and being purchased by people feeling particularly peckish.
The small town is a mere 75 kilometers [...]
4000km, 71 days, 23 punctures, 5 countries, 4 accidental dismounts, 3 hospital visits, 2 trips to local welders, 1 night sleeping on a birthing table and we finally rolled into Siem Reap, Cambodia.
We set off from Kuala Lumpur on 23rd March, just three days after landing in Singapore without so much as an address to [...]
A trip traveling any Asian countries would not be complete without paying a visit to one or more of the fantastic temples, pagodas and other religious monuments that they contain. I have recently traveled Southeast Asia and marveled at The Batu Caves in Malaysia and some of the countries Buddhist monasteries. I have also wandered [...]
The route has been planned, the kit not quite organised and the first aid kits filled to the brim with a combination of mosquito spray, dissentry medication and malaria tablets… what a treat!
So with slightly less than two weeks left before embarking upon this epic adventure, it seems like an apt time to look in [...]
Allow me to be frank. I’m not feeling it. This whole blog thing. The mood’s just not there. My imagination’s no longer running wild, it’s been caged in a zoo where it lounges on a log for 18 hours a day and only gets up to strategically lick its genitals when a nun walks by. [...]
CAMBODIA
Do NOT get a bus from Thailand to Cambodia or Cambodia to Thailand, there is no road just a whole load of pot holes, its really bad and we ended up having to walk some of the way as the bus got stuck in a pot hole and in the mud…not ideal!! So instead I [...]
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