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Small Town Takeo Cambodia

On the road in Cambodia and I have no idea what to expect. Other than learning something about genocide and seeing a photo here and there of Angkor Wat, this land contains no prenotions for me to draw upon. I somehow guess that the people here will be unfriendly and hardened due to...

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JohnJack_Crestani on March 12, 2009 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia

from the travel blog: I Meet the SouthEast

Dolphins in Kratie

The main draw of Kratie is the chance to see the endangered Irrawaddy Dolphins, so we hired a moped to go and find them. They seemed very relaxed about renting bikes here. "It's no problem not to have a helmet," he told us, "because you are foreign the police won't stop you". I wasn't convinced,...

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The Happy Couple on March 10, 2009 from Kracheh, Cambodia

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Koh Paen, agrarian paradise

We were up early to catch the bus from Siem Reap to Kampong Cham. There's not a huge amount to do there, but it was a massive relief not to be constantly harrassed by people trying to sell us stuff, or otherwise extract money from us. I had read another blog post about the town, saying that it...

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The Happy Couple on March 9, 2009 from Kampong Cham, Cambodia

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Living in the city

Three days in and I'm beginning to climatise. Climatise to the slippery, sweaty humidity and the constant roar of moto's. This city is noisy and every day is dramatic. The heat is heavy and the air is smoggy and polluted. Waves of delicious smells rise from the food stalls that line the streets....

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bridiethebarang on March 9, 2009 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia

from the travel blog: Cambodia 2009

Recovering in Siem Reap

The day after we finished the temples of Angkor (and lots of buckets) we were extremely hungover. Joanne swore she was never going to drink buckets again. So we just took a couple of days off, since we'd worked so hard seeing all those temples. For two days we just hung around Siem Reap not...

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The Happy Couple on March 7, 2009 from Siem Reap, Cambodia

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Angkor What!?

Having been thoroughly depressed by the current wealth gap and the former brutality of the Khmer Rouge in Phnom Penh, we were glad to be escaping the next day to the rich cultural landscape of Angkor, Siem Reap being the nearby town where we stayed. Siem Reap is the tourist capitol of...

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The Happy Couple on March 5, 2009 from Siem Reap, Cambodia

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Back in Phnom Penh

Before we left Sihanoukville we (of course) bumped into Marty and Jochem again, who were (of course of course) staying in the same hotel again. This time we weren't staying in a place reccommended by the Lonely Planet, in fact this place wasn't even in the LP; it was well out of the way and not...

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The Happy Couple on March 1, 2009 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Snoozing in Snooky

Surprisingly (to me anyway) the internet speed is much much better in Laos, however it's more expensive even than Cambodia. $6 an hour is not uncommon here, but I've found a place for less than $1 and the better speed makes it much better value than Cambodia. However, I'm now so far behind the...

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The Happy Couple on February 27, 2009 from Sihanokville, Cambodia

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Intro to Cambodia

I think you can forget any blogging for the next 3 weeks. Connection speed in the big towns of Cambodia has been nearly impossibly slow and I've just take 50 minutes to get to the stage where I can start writing this. We are in a smallish town now (actually it's the regional capitol), and it's...

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The Happy Couple on February 23, 2009 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon