Cambodia
From the jaw-dropping Angkor Wat to the abyss of Pol Pot, via idyllic isolated beaches, dollar-a-day pickers and packers, and, oh yes, elephants! (Also available without the blather, at anassandadonkey.com.)
Great song by The Dead Kennedys, always comes to mind when I think of Cambodia. Which, to be fair, isn’t often.
Anyway, with that dealt with, our last day in Thailand/first in...
Everyone says you need three days for Angkor Wat, and after reading up about it that sounds about right, so that’s what we plan to do.
With five days/four nights booked here,...
Forgive the gag, but I was in poor shape when we set off in the tuk tuk this morning. Aftermath of a night spraying rusty water in the great white telephone. I said to Virle, I’m...
After my earlier grumbling about lack of monkeys, we’re so over it that when Virle saw a young Aussie getting excited about something in a tree, only to discover it was a monkey,...
It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t what we’d been hoping for.
Though it could have been worse. We’d been monitoring the weather, hoping for a promising day, but the...
And in between, this.
And more this. And more this. And seven hours on the bus to look at it, with nothing to distract from some rather downbeat ruminations. Caveats first. We’ve...