Travelling Malaysia: Read Here About the Exotic Melting Pot that is KL
I am writing this having recently returned from a “full immersion” South East Asian trip. Malaysia was the impetus for this extended sojourn. I hankered to revisit because I was born in Malaysia, in a small inland township called Kamunting,…
Travelling Cambodia: A Road Trip Phnom Penh-Siem Reap
Having recently travelled the length and breadth of Southeast Asia on various transport; including an overnight sleeper train, a long-haul bus, and a river ferry, the choice to travel our next leg, the length of Cambodia, by road, definitely fitted…
Travelling Cambodia: Phnom Penh’s Silk Island
(Before reading this story, to provide context, I suggest you read Phnom Penh-City Tour ). Silk Island is locally known as Koch Dach Early the following day, Sorya picked us up in his Tuk Tuk. We traveled for 10 minutes…
Travelling Cambodia: Phnom Penh City Tour
Six hours after leaving Vietnam, we docked at Phnom Penh. Excited. Anticipating our first experience of Cambodia. Disembarking from our ferry into a hot sticky day onto a very steep and crowded bridge, chaos reigned. Where was our stowed luggage?…
Travelling Aotearoa: Autumn in Turangi, New Zealand
I just got back from a weekend in “The Central Plateau” in the North Island of New Zealand. Namely a small, remote “desert” town called Turangi. Fifty kilometres southwest of Taupo and skirted by volcanic mountains; Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe and Tongariro,…
Travelling SE Asia: Up The Mekong River.
The daily high-speed ferry departs from South Vietnam (Chau Doc) at 7.30a.m. Picked up from the hotel we were very politely and rather tentatively shown where to embark. We walked down a broken concrete stairway that circumvented another hotel, The…
