Phobia #1 - Critters (Khao Yai National Park) Located about 2.5 hours from Bangkok, this monsoon forest reserve is home to some 200 odd wild elephants. We were lucky to see one!! No luck on spotting a tiger though. The first day, the tour guide took us to bat cave viewing. Like clockwork, ~2 million bats poured out of this hole on the side of th...

Finally reached Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City to the city officials) after a fairly tortous 11 hour bus journey. Luckily we were staying with a Vietnamese family who's relative is a friend of Jo's in NZ. They were soooo lovely to us, in particular as their children are grown up and living/studying away so we became like substitute children, being fed...

Out early to view Banteay Srei .... a temple with superb carvings. Temple was dedicated to Women...If I understood correctly. Andrew very happy to see this Temple .... made his day. We visited a Landmine Museum which was set up with sponsorship from Canada. The new museum is now linked to a school and accommodation for children affected by landm...

Hi ev**yone. Well, i thought I'd be able to make more regular blogs now with the use of a laptop on board but somehow it just hasn't happened. To attempt at getting the job done h**e, I've just lazily tried to cut and paste my ordinary dairy entries so apologies if the story jumps around a bit too much or is a bit long winded and boring...let me...

Can you believe this is my second to last evening alone. Tomorrow night I will spend on a plane headed to Athens where I will meet Celia On Tuesday morning! Ok, so I guess I have three more nights. Anyway, its come down to my last few days alone and I wanted to say a few things to highlight my experience thus far. First of all, as you can tell, ...

"Be the change you want to see in the world". I'm starting this out with this cheesy cliche, keping in mind that cliches are there for a reason, regardless of the cheese factor. When I came to Siem Reap in the beginning of April to meet with Tobias and Will (hereinafter referred to as "the boys") about Human Translation's projects, I felt like I...

Just a few feet inside Cambodia from the border with Thailand, a sportily dressed man escorts a group of us new arrivals onto an official looking bus after we tell him we'd like a share taxi to Siem Reap. "Yes, this way, please. Quickly, the bus is leaving!" "Where does the bus go?" I ask. "Taxi station," he replies. "How much does this bus cost...

We're back on track--our bags were transferred to Siem Reap last night, and we got them at 11:00 p.m. We haven't found good internet or computers yet, thus no pictures. Not much to say about Angkor Wat, the pictures would describe better. We've been traveling by Tuk-tuk here. We can hire a driver to takes us through the temples for $10/day. Unli...

Of Tempows, Tuk tuks and Kermit the Frog: What?? it's my Angkor Wat experience! The story of how I saved money, quit my job, bought a camera, a lonely planet guide book, and set on an adventure tour and travel around southeast asia. Another mental bus journey brought me from Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital to Siem Reap, home to the wonderful and ...

After all the temples we had seen around Angkor, we were looking forward to seeing something a bit different. We had previously discussed visiting the "Flooded Forest of Kompong Phhluk" (as the guidebook describes it) and with the invitation from the monk to show us his pagoda where he studies and Kompong Phhluk village we thought it a lucky mee...