Pleasantly Post-Apocalyptic Kampot, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. Kampot has a pleasantly post-apocalyptic feel. Cambodian women in pink flannel pyjamas bicycle silently past blocks of crumbling French architecture. Decades of neglect, haphazard repurposing and jury rigging have transformed the colonial shops and villas into something odd and transient. A few travelers sit in wicker…
Author: Eric, your haikuist
Anchor What?
Janelle In Preah Khan, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. Some things live up to the hype. Angkor is one of those things. It’s hard to say this without sounding geeky (impossible, in fact) so here it goes: Angkor is like all my childhood Dungeons & Dragons or Lord of the Rings-inspired flights of imagination…
A Holiday in Cambodia
And it’s a holiday in Cambodia Where you’ll do what you’re told A holiday in Cambodia Where the slums got so much soul –Dead Kennedys Bus Travel, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. We arrived at the Cambodian border fully expecting to pay our first-ever direct, unambiguous bribe to a government official. I even had…
Breakfast On The River Kwai
Breakfast On The River Kwai, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. Kanchanaburi is the kind of place you could plan to visit for a couple of days and end up staying a couple of weeks. Â About two hours from Bangkok by bus, but a world away in terms of pace, it’s a town whose tourism…
Guest Post: Adventures in Thai Dentistry
Special guest post by Janelle! I am not an adventurous person, and consider myself to be overly cautious in most things. However, the promise of cheap dental treatment in Bangkok seemed too good to pass up. I read all the sites on the net. Relief from a niggling tooth that was the oral equivalent of…