for those who didn't read this blog earlier - Travelblog (the provider that hosts my blog) deleted all the photos that were uploaded over a twelve-day period in April, including these ones. Their only comment is that one has to uplaod them all again. Given that it takes me a long time to wokr out which photos I want to upload, and that Travelblog makes the actual uploading very difficult, it's not an easy thing to do. So for the time being you just have to imagine that they're really great photos. Actually, the first one was quite nice, a [View Full Entry]

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Tirsdag 31/3- torsdag 2/4 Nå sitter vi på verandaen rett utenfor rommet vårt her i Siem Reap med en kald øl. Hilton Angkor Guesthouse (www. hiltonangkor.com) bor vi på, og det er kjempebra. Vi var ganske betenkte da tuc- tuc’en svingte ned en lurvete, smal sidegate uten lys tirsdag kveld. Området er ganske slumaktig, men gjestehuset er veldig bra. Tenk nå har vi vindu på rommet og det er stort (men ingen stoler). Turen til Kambodsja startet ganske humoristisk ved at en liten, tykk og langhåret mann (fikk assosiasjoner til Ringenes Herre) kom på scooter og ropte: ”Are you going [View Full Entry]

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Pailin is famous for gem stones, land mines and being a haven for ex-Khmer Rouge members. In the west of Cambodia, near the Thai border, Pailin was a Khmer Rouge stronghold; selling gem stones kept them going financially, they planted a lot of land mines here to compensate for having a smaller army than opposing forces, and a number of high ranking Khmer Rouge members sought refuge in Pailin after they were finally defeated in the late nineties. I saw some gem stones (some really big rocks!), read signs about land mine clearances and saw some land mine victims, but fortunately [View Full Entry]

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Day 54/55/56/57/58 Phnom Penh & Koh Kong & Bangkok Our first night in Phnom Penh was short since we arrived in the late afternoon. But we did get a tuk tuk up to the lake and ate at the Lazy Gecko where they serve the most amazing chicken strips and fries (and have the cutest pug). S tried to add some more stuff onto her ipod but was sadly disappointed that the Boom Boom room in Phnom Penh couldn't upload MAC ipods. The cafe did have a TV room and we watch "Baby Mama" on their "Sinsung" DVD player (only the [View Full Entry]

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Getting back to Thailand from Camodia turned out to be yet another mission of strength and patience. We were told we would be on Koh Chang by 2.15 in the afternoon by leaving Cambodia at 7.45am, well we have learnt that never works and you needto add at least 2 hours, this time though, we managed to get there 4.30 hours late at nearly 7pm. 4 buses a ferry then another bus and you make it, a very very long day but from 1st impressions Koh Chang looks great....................You just have to sit back and laugh really which is what we [View Full Entry]

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This is my Cambodia trip. I recently bought an early model kodak point and shoot camera from ebay(my first digital camera) for $30 and here are my humble efforts. [View Full Entry]

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Four days in Phnom Penh (the last of which was mostly spent watching Jack Black films in our lovely hostel) and we were off down the coast to Kampot. The bus ride wasn't as bad as I was expecting; I think a few more roads have been built since our Lonely Planet was published. It was a bit bumpy and at one point we may or may not have hit someone but apart from that it was fine and we arrived to a small town and stumbled into the first guest house we saw. It was cheap but turned out to [View Full Entry]

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In part two we hear how drinking water from leaves in the early morning can keep one alive......heck, we reach the village OK?! It has a happy ending. See? We're alive to type the tale. Coming soon, to a computer near YOU! [View Full Entry]

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The morning after the storm was cool with mist rising from the warming moist earth and at 7 O'clock the river water level was low enough for us to pick our way across. Sophat instinctively seemed to know where the trail was and strode ahead, carrying our belongings while I was only to carry the river filled bottles of water in my small pack. Based on the information from the hunters we were prepared for an 8 hour hike estimating a ridiculously optimistic pace of 5km/hr, with me wearing clogs! My focus was on not twisting an ankle and sparing my [View Full Entry]

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We never did reach Battambang and so I really should replace the name of that town with Pursat, but artistic license is everything! I'm still unsure how to tell this tale. Looking back on that clear dawn, all I can say is that if I had known what was in store for us I never would have set out on this trip. Perhaps that's not quite correct because the emotional memory of these last two days is already transforming, much like thinking back to childbirth, I'm already asking myself "was it really that bad"? The night before our departure from KKK, [View Full Entry]

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