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 [...]
Walking the streets of Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, one can expect to be hassled and offered all manner of things. ”You want tuk-tuk? motorbike? drugs? ladies?”. All of which, hardened by already having spent two months in Southeast Asia, I brushed off with relative ease. Then I was completely taken back by the [...]
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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