Finally, you're visiting somewhere I am familiar wit! Finally... with your visit to Hong Kong, you are visiting a place where I have been many times. It's been many years (20 to be exact) but I have many very good memories from Hong Kong.
Wow, you really are incredible... what a journey Fantastic pictures. I'm so envious, and only wish that I had asked you to take me with you on your amazing journey. I feel I must go on those boat trips, and Hal would want to row!!! On return, I'll have to get you to 'teach' me how you have managed travel and writing and photos and blogging! Amazing. Breathtaking.....
deeply envious!! working backwards thro your journeys. but deeply envious, and great pictures, both visual and written. Siem Reap has changed hugely since my visit in mid 1990s, but I never made it to Battambang on our project, so now I see it through your eyes! happy travels.
English Teaching in Cambodia This is of particular interest to me, as my father visited Cambodia last year to address the subject of English language teaching in the country. I believe it is a project at Government level, and they wanted an outside specialist to talk to their teachers. That specialist was my dad!
it is not a 21st century mosque. "A Brooke era fort, with a twenty-first century mosque under construction behind it."---it's not first century mosque..it is Sarawak's new state legislative assembly complex. very nice pic by da way.
So impressive! I can't believe you are managing to make notes (I presume) and take photos in order to post a coherent blog, in the midst of all this chaos! A lesser person (me) would have given up now :)
My blog Hi Gillian! Enjoyed your recent post- exciting! Apparently Wordpress is banned from China, so you can't access it at all from there. But here's my address: august13th.wordpress.com. Take care GP, look fwd to more stories from you!
Vietnam by boat Great pictures. Thanks for the geography lesson. My oldest grandson enjoyed the pictures... they youngest two just wanted to play with the computer.
Tongle Sap Lake pics Hi Gillian. The lake looks beautiful and serene... great foto too! What is that blue building that's taller than the others? Is it actually a house or what? Btw my new blog on Brunei food is up and running now: august13th.wordpress.com
Oh, I also just realized that there I made a small mistake in my earlier comments. It should have read "Angkor is now believed to have been the largest PRE-industrial (not post-) metropolis" but I'm sure readers would have figured out anyway.
Living where our rivers only flow in one direction, I was amazed to find out the Tongle Sap actually flows both at different times of the year, I just now finished looking it up and researching it; quite fascinating, as with the rest of your travels and experiences you have been sharing from there.
Pics Hi Gillian. Not to worry about the pics - even though we await with baited breath. All in all, quite an adventure. I'm impressed with and enjoy reading it. Keep on trekkin'.
I'm Khmer (Cambodian) and mostly agree with your observations. Just wanted to clarify 9 and 10. It would be more accurate to say that post-Angkor Cambodia has no urban tradition considering that Angkor is now believed to be the largest post-industrial metropolis in the world. and 10, the Khmer Rouge came to power because of multiple factors, and the Vietnam War next door was a major factor.
Oh by the way, an important observation you may also have made is that Cambodians call themselves "Khmers" - which to westerners more relates to the Khmer Rouge. the adjective "Cambodian" doesn't exist in the Khmer language.
Great pics I guess when you finally get home you will be able to publish a pictorial book on your travels.
If you di I will be the first to buy one, the pictures are amazing.
The pictures are beautiful...so much color and beauty in the scultures, ect. It seems odd to me that they would display the bones of the murdered. Maybe as a reminder to the sheer numbers who perished?
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Beautiful
I was in Bario 2007. It's just beautiful!