Archive for the 'Thailand & Cambodia' Category

Bangkok: Market + Train

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

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)

Build your own Angkor Wat

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

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:

Asha Guesthouse

Friday, August 5th, 2005

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 [...]

Trees and Monkeys

Monday, September 13th, 2004

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

Some favourite trip photos

Wednesday, September 8th, 2004

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 [...]

Back in Canada, still a ways from home

Sunday, September 5th, 2004

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 [...]