Fish head at Otres Beach | Photo by Lauren Girardin When we crossed from Laos into Cambodia, Todd and I met a German traveler headed in the opposite direction. This is always a gift, someone who’s been where you want…
During our three-day bicycle exploration of the temples of Angkor, Cambodia, I took too many photos. The temples were a photogenic place to play around with my Canon G9 camera’s panorama and macro settings, though I admit I went a…
Siem Reap is a pleasant if rather soulless tourist town. Most of what there is to do is focused on nighttime entertainment, when people have returned from touring the Angkor temples.
A number of people have written or commented asking how to create the photo slideshows included at the end of our travel dispatches, so I thought I’d share it with everyone.
Phnom Penh gives a first impression of a rough, ugly, sprawling town. The second impression is unfortunately much the same. With a huge expat community, the high end is very high. With the a large poor population, the low end…
Where we ate: Krolan, a.k.a. bamboo rice – Along the roadside away from the tourist hotels, there are women with small roadside displays of bamboo tubes of various lengths and diameters. You’ll need to haggle a bit, but for much…
Decorations at Hive Bar, Laos$10, marker on a beer label, 3.5″ x 5″ oval When I ran out of room in my Moleskine notebook, I made a couple of drawings on Beer Laos labels, which were always plentiful as we…
