Category Archives: Travel
Chhay Vet: Battambang Rain Gambling
‘An odd and puzzling feature of this town was that many people looked at the sky for long periods of time, pointing at the clouds, and they did this from morning till sunset. We thought they were plane spotting or…
Public Transport in Cambodia
Making regular weekend trips out into the sticks, it occurs to me that some readers might appreciate some insight into transportation options in Cambodia. Actually, many foreigners living in Cambodia swanning around in their SUVs (or more likely motorbikes) are…
Crash
Something actually happened in Cambodia in June – an airplane crashed, killing 22 – mostly Korean tourists. From what I can ascertain, a company (named ‘PMT’; let’s not make any quips about flying in the wrong time of the month)…
Leaving on a Jet Plane?…
Every six months or so I return to the place I once called home. With heightened airport security around the world, I find myself spending significant amounts of time in long lines with no one to talk to. An interesting…
Out in the Cambodian Sticks
I’d deliberately not planned any of my week in Siem Reap other than vaguely seeing Angkor Wat. I flagged down the first passing motodop and told him to take me there. After he initially tried a couple of bog-standard tourist…
Let it Be
A while back when I was reclining on the loungers of a certain beach shack on Occheuteal Beach in Sihanoukville, I noticed that their rickety sign post had an array of large rusty nails sticking out at just the right…
Lights Out at 8pm: This is Pursat!
For the first two years that I lived in Cambodia I was often asked if I had been to Angkor Wat, Sihanoukville, Kampot, Kep, any of the provinces that begin with ‘Kampong’, or end with ‘… kiri’. I was always…
Fun in Kampot and Kep
Lovely as ever, Kampot really is my favourite place in Cambodia. The landscape down there is lush and green and tropical and it is nice to escape the flatlands of Phnom Penh and its surrounds for the more geographically stimulating…
Addiction on the up in Cambodia
Fresh off the Bus This is a cautionary tale for anyone wanting to come to on Cambodia holiday and I hope the story you read makes you all think long and hard. Visiting Cambodia has had far reaching and potentially…
A Cambodian History Lesson
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You may well have noticed, since it’s been widely reported in the global media, that some interesting conclusions have been drawn from research into the downfall of the Cambodian empire centred on Angkor Wat. For those of you who missed…