Category Archives: Cambodia
Angkor under threat
Cambodia’s famous ruin complex, Angkor Wat, is being “overrun by tourists”, according to the conservation group Global Heritage Fund (GHF). “Hundreds of thousands of visitors climb over the ruins of Angkor every year causing heavy deterioration of original Khmer stonework,” … Continue reading
Wonky Bob
No, not my new Cambodian amputee bezzie mate (sorry, appalling) but my new haircut, courtesy of Battambang’s finest. I’m not taking a picture (ever), so ill just say that I have counted nine different hair lengths in the last half … Continue reading
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Postcard from Battambang
Sick of the sight of tour organisers and guides by the time I left Siem Reap, I headed across south-east Asia’s largest lake, Ton Le Sap, to the sleepy city of Battambang. Eschewing the delights of Battambang’s Governors’ House and … Continue reading
Tomb Raider
While in Siem Reap to visit Angkor Wat, I also paid a visit to the temple of Beng Mealea. Rather than write a seperate blog about it, I am simply – lazily – reproducing here the piece I have written … Continue reading
Angkor, what?!
It is hard to reduce something on the scale and grandeur of Angkor Wat down to the pithy disposability of your common or garden blog, so I’m not even going to try. Its magnificence isn’t an anticlimax though, that’s for … Continue reading
