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Continue reading →: Cambodia / Thailand: Day 15 – Siem Reap & Bangkok
After 6 days in Cambodia, today we will say goodbye and head to Bangkok in Thailand for the final leg of the trip. As our flight isn’t until 6:35pm, we have opted to lie in and take our time walking around Siem Reap to kill some time. Out in the…
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Continue reading →: Cambodia: Day 14 – Siem Reap
Well how’s about that – that’s two weeks down now, and today is our last full day in Siem Reap. If I’m brutally honest we’ve overstayed our welcome here by a day or two. I don’t mean that negatively to the locals, they’ve been absolutely wonderful, but rather I feel…
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Continue reading →: Cambodia: Day 13 – Phnom Kulen & Siem Reap
Good Morning Cambodia! I’ll be honest that line worked far better back in Vietnam! It’s another beautiful day here in Siem Reap and who knows what lies in store today! Just an FYI, I’ve got to make more of an effort to put the hard yards in, because you (Siem)…
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Continue reading →: Cambodia: Day 12 – Angkor Wat & Siem Reap
Hello and welcome back to Cambodia for more stories from the other side of the world. Today we will be checking out the ancient temples of Angkor Wat (unofficially voted the 8th wonder of the world) and the surrounding area. It’s pretty much the reason most people come to Cambodia,…
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Continue reading →: Cambodia: Day 11 – Phnom Penh & Siem Reap
After a pretty hectic first ten days of this trip, today was quite chill and uneventful – giving a welcome chance to recharge batteries for the next few days. I never thought I’d say this, but I’m actually finding these long bus rides quite cathartic in our busy schedule. Today…
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Continue reading →: Cambodia: Day 10 – Phnom Penh
Today is Sunday 10th November, and a day we’ve been looking forward to for a long time. We’ll be meeting up with a family friend Sophie Moore who works as a missionary for Elim Church here in Phnom Penh. We meet Sophie in our hotel foyer at 9am, and head…
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Continue reading →: Cambodia: Day 9 – Phnom Penh
Oosh that 6am alarm doesn’t get any easier 🥱. Today we are saying tạm biệt to Ho Chi Minh City and Vietnam and សួស្តី (suostei) to Phnom Penh and Cambodia (joking of course… we never made it past Cảm ơn in Vietnam and I took one look at the Cambodian…
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Continue reading →: Vietnam: Day 8 – Mekong Delta & Ho Chi Minh City
It’s the start of week 2 in South East Asia, and our last full day in Vietnam, but (as with every other) our schedule is jam packed for today. We meet tour guide Kevin in our hotel lobby after breakfast and wait for the bus to arrive. Today we will…
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Continue reading →: Vietnam: Day 7 – Ho Chi Minh City
Coming up to the end of first week on this trip and I can’t believe how fast it’s going. Today a guide is taking us round ago Ho Chi Minh City – his name is Kevin. From the hotel we drive out to district 1, passing the US embassy on…
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Continue reading →: Vietnam: Day 6 – Hanoi & Ho Chi Minh City
Morning. Didn’t get a great night’s sleep last night. Was convinced I heard voices and music coming from the hotel hallway at 3am. No one else heard it, so I’m not so sure. This morning we leave Hanoi to head to Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). The bus taking…
