The travels of Justin

看，很有意思！ 在泰国，一辆火车经过市场。
A train passes through a market in Bangkok, Thailand.
Watch this one through to the end… it’s a pop-up market on a train track in Thailand. Amazing.

(touque tip: Boing Boing)

Having traveled to the Angkor Wat temples in Cambodia in 2004 I can attest to their awesome beauty and have the pictures to prove it. If expensive airplanes and leftover landmines are a turn-off, why not build your own paper Angkor Wat at home:

Kao San Road
Last summer, I wrote about meeting a couple in Thailand. When we arrived in Bangkok after the drive from the island, I toured the building they owned and were turning into a guesthouse.
I got word that the Asha Guesthouse is open. After spending such a great day with them and touring the building [...]

Photos of wild monkeys, and trees growing out of temple walls and buildings (Angkor Wat, Cambodia)

We took so many photos, but I haven’t been able to go through them all. Here’s four of my favourites:

This is our view from the boat that toured us around the floating village at Siem Reap, Cambodia. During the dry season, this waterway doesn’t exist, so the houses are moved closer to the huge lake, [...]

Well we made it home, finally. Our flights from Bangkok to Tokyo and Tokyo to San Francisco went very smoothly, but our final connection caused us much grief. You see, our plane was stuck in Los Angeles (LAX) while the aiport was having several security problems. One of the problems turned out to be simply [...]

Quite a good day today, despite having to leave the beach this morning. We woke up in a rainstorm. Before leaving our place, we stopped at our favourite restaurant and the owner actually shared the recipe for the Hat Sak Hiew Prawns. He even gave up a package of tempura mix, just to be sure [...]

It’s 7 pm on our last day on the beach. Tomorrow morning we’re making the trek back to Bangkok. We’ll probably stay in a place cheaper than the Thai Cozy House, but not by much. We’re hoping to fit in a visit to Chinatown, the Grand Palace, and meeting up with some Canadian ex-pat’s living [...]

Day Four in Koh Samet and our sunburns are starting to heal enough to really enjoy the warm ocean water again, though not without a good lathering of SPF 50. We haven’t really explored the island, and don’t really intend to, but we’ve walked out of the park to visit some local businesses. I [...]

We woke up late on Thursday morning, a little unsure our bus would arrive in Banphe early enough to catch the ferry (really just a small boat) to the island of Koh Samet. “What the heck,” we, the bold travellers said to each other. We boarded the public bus expecting difficutly with language, etc. [...]