The young monkeys had this game whereby they'd climb up a tree, find a thin branch, hang onto it till it bent to about a metre off the ground, then let go and fall to the ground. It was hard to photograph properly.
Cambodia and Vietnam April 18th 2009
Thanks to Mark G for picking up the tyop in the title. It's nice to know that at least one person is at least reading the titles :-)
Phnom Penh seems nicer than I remembered it. Perhaps it has changed a little, for the better, in one year, although I can’t imagine that it would really have changed so much in such a short time. Perhaps I just saw nicer parts of it this time ... read more
Asia » Vietnam » Southeast » Ho Chi Minh City The conquest of Vietnam by France began in 1858 and was completed by 1884. It became part of French Indochina in 1887. Independence was declared after World War II, but the French continued to rule until 1954 when they were defeated by Communist forc... ... read more
UPDATE (April 2013)
This site was the blog I kept for my long-term travels, mainly through Asia, in 2009-2010. I'm not maintaining it any more. I've done numerous trips since then but haven't kept them on this blog. I did run my own blog for a year but unfortunately lost that data.
END UPDATE
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Having always dreamed about travel, previously mainly done it as three-week or four-week sort... full info