Angkor Wat
The majority of our time in Cambodia was spent visiting the +1,000 year old ancient city and temples of Angkor. Every morning, our friendly and informative tuk-tuk driver, Khan, would drive us about 20 minutes from Siem Reap to Angkor, the ancient and...
From Thailand to Cambodia
Our 6-hour bus journey from Bangkok, Thailand to Siem Reap, Cambodia was the closest I have come to experiencing culture shock on this trip. Because the online ticket purchases were all written in Thai, we needed to go to Mo Chit station the day before to secure our...
Transport, toilets, and taste
Transport There are over 16 million people living in Bangkok, and all of them have somewhere they need to go. They may take their car (at 360% tax on car purchases, you must be WEALTHY), taxi (slow, but cheap and reliable), motorbike taxi (exhilarating...
Floating Market and Grand Palace
Early Saturday morning we hopped in the back of a minivan and went a couple hours west of Bangkok to the Amphawa floating market. We weren't sure what to expect, but our stomachs were pleased to find a bunch of long-tail canal boats cooking freshly caught...
Tuk-tuks and Temples
My first impression of Bangkok was a city packed full of silent well-dressed people in a hot, sticky environment stinking of exhaust fumes. It's a lot more than that, surely, but that was my first impression as I hopped on the skytrain to meet Lauren and Emilie...
Bangkok-bound
It's 4.30am on Friday morning and I'm sitting in Singapore airport ready to board my flight to Bangkok. Even the airports are different over here. Once I was through to my gates, I went to the bathroom...and instead found a gaping hole in the floor with...