Year: 2018

A sleep in! After three full on days in Singapore, and a 4am start yesterday, the later start is blissful. No plans for the day, except to cut some laps around the Old Market area of town. Maybe tend to the aching legs and feet.  The Old Market is a squeezy block of brick stalls, […]

Leaving the swarm at Angkor Wat, we make tracks for Ta Prohm, the temple made famous in pop culture by Angelina Jolie. It’s almost deserted – all hail the guide who “gets it”! Slow, methodical restoration works are occuring here, and given the way the banyan tree roots have taken over the sandstone structures, I […]

Fitful sleep – both of us kept waking throughout the night to check the clock, thinking we’d slept through the alarm. Up at 4am. Showered and cameras armed, ready to go at 4.40am. Meet our guide for the week, Devid, who is unbelievably chatty at this ungodly hour. Whisked off to the tourist office to […]

We hit Cambodian soil at 3.10pm. The sky is a murky red-grey colour, painted with dust and smoke; this is the hot season after all. Short walk across the tarmac under the blazing sun. Siem Reap International Airport is surprisingly small for the number of visitors it welcomes. Breeze through immigration with our eVisas; we’ve […]