Our next destination was Kampong Cham, an old port town slowly fading now the Japanese have paid for a bridge over the Mekong River. We journeyed by local bus with 16 seats reserved at the front, a mix of local people and a few tourists taking the other seats. The journey was about as memorable […]
Day 4 – Angkor Temples & Tonle Sap Lake
We managed to get up even earlier today but still had to wait until 4:45am to leave as the ticket office didn’t open until 5am. If not first we were second to receive our tickets and we then set off 13kms west of Siem Reap heading towards the Roluos temple area, specifically the Bakong temple. […]
Day 3: Siem Reap and the Temples of Angkor
We were up and ready, waiting for our ride shortly after 4:30am. Unfortunately we didn’t realise our driver was sleeping by the hotel counter and he slept though our quiet walking so we headed off a little later than planned. This worked out OK and after getting our day passes we were soon walking the […]
Day 2: Cambodia, travel to Siem Reap
The next morning we all congregated in the hotel foyer at 7am and then started our journey towards the Cambodia border. We had two vans to transport us to the border, eight of us in each. Our van was very bling, the ceiling was an array of garish lights (thankfully not turned on) and there […]
Day 1: Bangkok
We’re currently on holiday in Cambodia, travelling with the tour company Intrepid from Bangkok (in Thailand) to Ho Chi Min city (in Vietnam). Today has been the first of two days in Siem Reap, the largely tourist town nearby to the temples of Angkor Wat. We arrived in Bangkok very late at night (early in […]
Cambodia Trip with Intrepid
Bangkok to Ho Chi Minh (21 February – 4 March 2008) Cambodia Basix
Photos updates
A lot of photos have been added to the Gallery recently, click on the photos below for more. In other news somewhere between taking photos in Richmond and getting home that evening I lost my new tripod – left it on the train no less. I’m definitely getting value out of our insurance at the […]
Interim Solutions
You can see some photos from our recent travels here in a different gallery format: https://2kiwis.nz/NorthAmerica Click on a file to zoom in and then you can navigate using the arrow keys (and zoom out with the space bar). Coming home today I got a surprise – the scaffolding that has been in front of […]
New York
We’re back home at Brentwood now, hopefully soon to get a good nights sleep before back to work we go tomorrow. We had two nights in New York and managed to do a lot of the typical tourist things like view New York from the Empire State Building and take the Staten Island Ferry. It […]
Niagara Falls
We arose this morning to a breakfast of pancakes and french toast. We spent a bit of time talking to Lorlee (of Leeway B&B fame) before doing our final packing and then saying goodbye. The view from the Leeway B&B shoreline down the lake For the next five hours we pretty much just drove, slowly […]
A day on the Bruce Peninsula
After the storm of last night we were not expecting a warm or sunny day so we took our time to leave the B&B this morning. It was getting on for midday by the time we left and drove off towards the beautifully named Half Way Dump. Arriving at the Half Way Dump (which is […]
We’re in Canada
Last Friday we flew from Gatwick to Toronto and we’re had busy days since. We’ve had dinner in the 360 Restaurant at the top of the CN Tower, attended Steve’s last night of freedom at the Gate 403 Club, walked around Toronto, had the privilege of being at Steve and Wendy’s wedding and then been […]