Southeast Asia '24

Southeast Asian Odyssey '24

Starting out in Kuala Lumpur, with our sights set on up to three months in Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and the northern part of Vietnam we couldn’t visit last year on account of the season.  (Also available without the blather, at anassandadonkey.com.)

Kampot, Cambodia
To be fair, there wasn't much in the brochure
Kampot, googling suggested, was not exactly overburdened with tourist attractions. But we’d known that before we came here, viewing it as a reasonably chilled way of segueing...
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Cave temple, nr Kampot, Cambodia
You really can have a great time round Kampot. Who knew?
Busy, busy, busy, to quote the great Kurt Vonnegut. Starting with yesterday evening when we took another walk into town to go to the night market. Passing en route via a massive society...
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Somprov Pram temple, Bokor Mountain, Cambodia
Great day, shame about the ('seriously?') finale
Didn’t get off to the absolute bestest of starts. The motorbike guy came with a new scooter to replace the one from yesterday, after we’d protested about it having, among...
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Bokor Mountain, Cambodia
Day on the bus. And the other bus.
Today was always going to be a non-event – very much a means to an end rather than any kind of end in itself. What’s to say about the bus trip that took us from Kampot to...
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Mekong river, Kratie, Cambodia
We saw the river dolphins!
And also this young chap, who was handling one of the other boats with what looked like a masterful hand, while his father, presumably, was down in the boondocks chatting with a punter. And...
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Junior School, Kratie District, Cambodia
What can you say but what a day!
After the first couple of hours out on Suk’s tuk tuk tour, I said to Virle, I’m going to have to start taking notes, otherwise I’ll never remember all the things we’re...
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