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Annice and Peter
We are from Ottawa, Canada and are embarking on our third Asian Adventure! In 2005-2006 we taught in China at the Guangdong Industry Technical College. Our love for China was born! We spent our Chinese New Year holiday travelling to Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia (including Langkawi) and Southern Thailand. Two years later we returned to China and travelled to Beijing, Xi'an, Chengdu, Kumming, back to Guangzhou, and Nanning, before entering Vietnam at the Chinese border and travelling to Hanoi, Hoi Ann, NaTrang, up the Mekong Delta, and Ho Chi Minn City. We flew back to Beijing before our flight home. Now, leaving on July 4, 2011, we plan to travel to Northern Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. We might even venture into Myanmar. The adventure is about to begin ...Annice and Peter
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August 21st 2011
On a first day of rain in a long time, we decided that it was time to use the weather as a travel day from Lonely Beach to Pattaya City. We arrived in Pattaya early evening and checked into a very posh hotel on the beach and close to the world famous "Walking Street". To know what Pattaya is world famous for one only needs to understand that Sex is to Pattaya as Gambling is to Vegas. It is an international sin city known for one thing only: Sex Tourism. It is not known for the beaches as we were very disapointed that the beaches were dirty and unkept and the water at times black with diesel oil from all the boats. The whole sex theme is at most entertaining and often amusing but that wears ... read more
Beaches and Sunsets and Creatures of the Night
Published: August 22nd 2011Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Ko Chang
August 20th 2011
Island hopping is making us get through our time here. We've spent more time at beach resorts than planned but you know, it's kinda nice. Crossing the border into Thailand from Cambodia was straight forward and took only moments. Like any border town on the Thai side it was a bustle with activity but there was only one very expensive mini-van into the closest city of Trat from which we headed to an island known as Koh Chang (Koh menas island and chang is elephant) as the island (after a few beer) looks like the shape of an elephant. It took us all day to get here and to say the least, compared to Cambodia beach resorts, this was heaven ... but very very expensive ... but so so worth it. We stayed in two areas, ... read more
Beaches and Shit - Sihanoukville - Cambodia's South Coast
Published: August 11th 2011Asia » Cambodia » South » Sihanoukville
August 11th 2011
It was a horrible horrible bus ride to Cambodia's South Coast ... 154 km from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville on the coast and it only took us 6 hours by bus .... do the math. As with each blog, make sure you scroll all the way down past the ads to see all the pictures or double click on any picture to see them all. Once we got over the bus thing, Annice and I (yup, me Peter doing a blog) found an amazing beachside resort right on the beach called 'Coasters', I mean right on the beach in the sand and the view from our room with a private balcony was fabulous. Most people don't know that Cambodia has a sea coast so it's a bit of a secret and in it's own specail way ... read more
August 11th 2011
These are a few moments we forgot about ... if they are worth remembering, they are worth sharing ... Luang Prabang in Laos was more beautiful than we had given photo credit for ...... read more
Pass the Salt and Pepper please .... Kampot Cambodia
Published: August 18th 2011Asia » Cambodia » South » Kampot
August 10th 2011
Kampot and it's sister city Kep are very unassuming lazy little towns on the Cambodian South Coast. Famous they are for Peppercorns and to some degree salt. The town only has a few guesthouses and bars but all of them arre very nice as is the town. We started our day there taking an evening sunset boat cruise (sort of) that included BBQ Prawns, red wine and cheeze and crakers. It was to say the least charming and a nice try but we had a great time as we were the only two on the little boat with a captian, mate and his two kids. I always have a difficult time eating anything that still has it's eyes on it and it took a few days to digest those prawns. The view was stunning and we ... read more
August 8th 2011
Well we went for the remote island thing and Monkey Island (Koh Kong ) was only a two or so hour boat trip away. Called Monkey Island not because there are Monkeys there but years ago before it was ever inhabbited, there was a report from a fisherman who claims to have seen what we might describe as a "Bigfoot". Lots of pictures so scroll all the way to the bottom to see them all and/or double click a photo to see them all in a gallery. The Island was indeed remote with no electricity and the cargo on the boat included huge huge blocks of ice that we assumed correctly was to keep the beer cold. The island had an amzaing fishing village of 75 families on it and it was so third world and ... read more
August 2nd 2011
We took a bus to Phnom Penh from Siem Reap and enjoyed our first evening along the Mekong River (once again) by drinking and dining. We even had a drink at the Foreign Exchange Club overlooking the river. Phnom Penh seems more expensive than Siem Reap. The cheapest draft beer we can find here is 75 cents, and only during a short happy hour. It could be because we are along the river though, where there are a lot of high class hotels alongside some cheaper guesthouses. We opted for a mid range guesthouse along the river - The Paragon. The room is very nice, has air conditioning AND a separate glassed in shower. We are paying the price, however, at $28 per night. We saw some places at $10 night but they were not really ... read more
August 1st 2011
We decided the best way to see Angkor Wat on the first day was by bicycle, so we set out to rent some mountain bikes and found some good Giant bikes at Green Cycles, just down from Pub Street. They only charged us $6 each for the day, and did not require a deposit or want to keep our passports, which was very trusting on their part. Angkor Wat is 6 km from Siem Reap and the roads are flat the whole way. We arrived at the ticket centre, a couple of km from Angkor Wat and paid $40 for a three day pass. We only intended to visit for two days but a one day pass is $20 so it was cheaper to buy a three day pass than two one day passes. Once we ... read more
July 29th 2011
In Vang Vieng I saw death in a young man's eyes and the image is etched in my memory permanently. We were excited to arrive in this hip city, overrun with young people out for tubing and drinking. This was a party town, but it was also a town of unparalleled natural beauty. We got off the bus, along with Hans and Marion from the Netherlands,who we had been travelling with since the slow boat to Luang Prabang. We were just dropped at the side of the highway, but we could see the town across a large gravel piece of land, which we determined to be the old airstrip. We walked through a rather large mud puddle, and found the town, literally teeming with guesthouses and restaurants. Peter and I wound our way toward the river ... read more
July 24th 2011
As I mentioned in my previous blog, we left Luang Prabang by express bus for Phonsavan - an eight hour journey down highway 13 and then onto highway 7. Both highways are now paved which made the journey a little less life threatening. We were lucky to have a half empty bus. There were only seven of us foreigners on the bus - and we had all been on the same slow boat to Luang Prabang. The rest of the bus was half full of Laos people. We were able to take two seats each to ourselves, which was going to make for better sleeping. At least, we THOUGHT we would sleep. It is pretty hard to sleep when the road makes a roller coaster feel tame. The road wound through mountains, following the countour of ... read more
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