After a layover of roughly 23 hours (with 20 dgrs it was very cold! We hadn’t worn our jackets in a very long time. We rented a car, washed our clothes, had some great lamb/steak for dinner and slept in a motel), we finally flew to Port Vila in Vanuatu. It’s the first island we’re […]
Time flies when you’re having fun. It seems like we left Cambodia a very long time ago, when in fact it’s been only 4 days. First stop after Siem Reap was Singapore, where we spent a day and a half before picking up our diving gear again. Because this was our second time in Singapore […]
Siem Reap, which is the town near the Angkor ruins site, literally means ‘Defeat of Siam’. A good indication of the understanding Cambodians (Khmer) have with Thailand. The only reason people go there is to visit the (ruins of the) Angkor temples. Angkor was the seat of the mighty Khmer Empire which flourished between the […]
Phnom Penh’s attractions range from the terrifying and depressing to the very beautiful. The Tuol Sleng museum definitely belongs in the first category: This former school building was transformed by Pol Pot into S-21, a ‘security center’ where he held ‘enemies’ of his regime prisoner, and tortured them before having them murdered at one of […]
