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If you’re planning a trip to Siem Reap to visit Angkor Wat, consider extending your time because there’s more to Northern Cambodia than just ‘the Wat’. Some adventurous days are waiting for you; Get active, get dirty, and get out of town! Siem Reap town itself is a hustle and bustle of craziness, with all manner of weird and wonderful things passing by on the…
As I sat on my soaked umbrella and fumbled with my phone, I cheated death – and decent photos – as the winds from hell blasted me, determined to fling me off the edge of the cliff. It is unexpectedly freezing in Nuwara Eliya, up in the Sri Lankan highlands. It is a pretty area known for its British village feel and rolling hills full…
Train travel in Sri Lanka – Helpful tips, Fantasies and Realities Throughout my travels, I had never experienced getting from A to B by train until a journey in Vietnam. We had to get back to Ho Chi Minh City from Mui Ne/Phan Thiet, and the only options were train, bus or car. We had hired a driver to get us there from Vung Tau,…
Here’s a tip: I had discovered during my research at home a story on cycling up onto and around the top of the wall of the Angkor Thom complex. I decided that this was what I absolutely must do while I was there, and you probably should too as you might have the whole place to yourself. Most other people enter the South Gate and…
When good things turn bad in the jungles of Borneo. Gliding down the river in a rickety wooden boat, the thick humid air of the wilderness brushing us with ominous calm, we are elated to arrive at our stilt hut in the jungles of Borneo – what an adventure it will be to have monkeys venture out of the forest and sit on our roof!…
