testing this Travelpod thingy. I will hope to post as often as I can, so that all the people who could not make it (hmm that would be all of you :) but I'm still hoping that one or two will join up with me) can see what I am getting up to! These are a couple of pictures from the first days in Cambodia... sorry will upload as soon as I can find a...

Out of all the blogs so far, this is that hardest to write. Cambodia is a place I've always wanted to visit, even more so since Chris' death. I'm not entirely sure why, I suppose I just felt drawn to the place. I thought that, having faced tragedy myself, I would 'fit in' in a country where tragedy is seen as 'normality'. How wrong I was. I foun...

Holaaaa!!!!!!!!! Adios a camboya con pena... despues de tres semanas por este pais anarquico, llegamos a Saigon. Seis millones de personas y tres millones de motos dan de si a esta gran ciudad. A mi me han caido muy bien los camboyanos... de sur a norte hemos pasado por shianoukville, kampot, phnom pehn, y siem reap... en este ultimo esta Angkor...

Caution- The images you are about to view are horrific. If you are squeamish and would rather not see this documentation of this human holocaust in Asia, skip this post and wait for the next! I am not kidding. It has haunted me since I visited the place, and if you don't want to be haunted too, don't look. I won't be suprised if someone complain...

First stop of the day was the S21 museum. as we arrived and got off our bus we were approached by beggars who had been caught up in land mine explosions. Just a taste of things to come. In 1975 Pol Pot's security forces turned this former school into a security prison, the largest centre of detention and torture in the country. Prisoners held he...

Four of the guys I've been travelling with returned to Bangkok today: Andrea and Matthias to spend some time on a beach or several in Thailand, and Juana and Carlos to go on to Beijing. I was sad to say goodbye to them because we had a lot of fun together, but also happy to have had the chance to meet them and know that the next things they'll b...

This has to be one of the most depressing experiences of my travels so far, yet it was something I will never regret seeing. Today, I met up with a few other traveler's from New Zealand, Sweden and Denmark to take in the Killing Fields and a high school in the suburbs of Phnom Penh, converted by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge into a death and tortu...

After a decent night's sleep we were up at a reasonable time with a simple plan to grab some brekkie and do a bit of internetting (if that's a verb ?) and get our behinds to the airport for our 2:50pm Air Asia flight. All went to plan and after just missing the airport bus we jumped in an uncharacteristically friendly taxi and sped off to the ne...

After another "Air conditioned" bus ride, Anita and John make it to the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. While Siem Reap was filled with perhaps the most spectacular achievements of architecture and art combined on the planet... Phnom Penh is home to some of man's darkest history. While the country is recovering amazingly well... it is still a b...

at this dirty lakeside guesthouse ($3 a night for my room and it totally looks like it...), we have been living off of "happy pizza". i met a couple of british girls and a belgium guy in battambang and we have been stoned on food for 24 hours. love it.