I arrived at my hotel, the Billabong, at about 9. Very early, but the check-in staff were very nice and told me to walk around a bit and come back in about an hour, when my room would be ready. A quick walk revealed a lot about the neighborhood, roughly defined as “Central Market” due Read More »
In this blog I am going to attempt to explain what happened to the people of Cambodia under the Pol Pot regime. While we were in Phnom Penh, we visited the Tuol Sleng Museum and the Killing Fields of Choeung Ek. When we arrived in Cambodia we were unsure whether it was appropriate to visit. Read More »
After arriving in Phnom Penh we did a quick city tour and took in the sights of the Royal Palace, Silver Pagoda and Victory monument – then headed to the riverside for a beer – we found a better place to stay for the next evening and arranged a tuk-tuk to take us out of Read More »
Well we are here at last! The trip from the airport to our guest house – Cafe Korner was filled with “Wow’s”, “Check that out” Did you see that” etc. The kids were gobsmacked and in awe. The Cambodia as I knew it 12 years ago still exists although there is certainly more infrasture and Read More »
Day 2 began with purchasing a new wallet – yes my lesson learnt – don’t leave your wallet even for a second. Most of our cash gone – in a second. Main issue being the inconvenience of cancelling cards etc. Hopefully it will be reimbursed via our travel insurance. Just hope the guy makes a Read More »
To market, to market………….to eat, eat and eat! The kids saw the noodle soup in the market yesterday and were keen as beans to try it today. So we had the traditional Khmer breakfast – noodle soup, and they loved it so much we returned for more tonight for dinner. I just hope they don’t Read More »
The day began with a market breaky again. So far so good with the acidophilis powder. All our tummies seem to be holding up although I have warned the kids that there is always a chance that they may get a bit sick. We planned to see the Palace and Silver Pagoda today but when Read More »
Another early morning wake up before the sun to catch the fast boat to P.P. via the Tonle Sap (got the heading wrong and can’t seem to change it!). It was a long exhausting trip – glad we did it – but will go via bus again in future. We took off from Siem Reap Read More »
Last night I went to sleep to my most favourite sound here in Cambodia – for those of you who were here when I was – do you remember the “noodle knockers!?” Not their real name of course but the name we gave them. For those of you who don’t know – in the evenings Read More »
Just having a chill weekend, hanging around relaxing before a busy week next week. This arvo we met up with Ruth – the Aussie lady in charge of the LIA orphanage – to see what days we can help out. Looks like we will best able to assist them between 12-19 Dec. So we have Read More »
