when I contemplated the jumbled heaps of giant stones inside and outside the tree-encircled outer walls, I could hardly imagine the jigsaw skills that would be needed to recreate even this one temple, let alone the assortment of reconstructed temples we had visited in our time in Cambodia. ...
Indeed, condemnation of Russia’s invasion cuts across cultures and continents: including Islamic Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia, Buddhist Thailand and Cambodia, Catholic Philippines and Brazil and Christian-Muslim Nigeria. For the same reason, the Ukraine conflict does not imply a global breakdown of ...
“I’m going to invite you to attend one of donald trump’s rallies because it’s a really interesting thing to watch. You will see during the course of his rallies he talks about fictional characters like Hannibal Lecter. He will talk about [how] windmills cause cancer. And what you wi...
“I’m going to invite you to attend one of donald trump’s rallies because it’s a really interesting thing to watch. You will see during the course of his rallies he talks about fictional characters like Hannibal Lecter. He will talk about [how] windmills cause cancer. And what you wi...
In fact, I think it’s a little cheaper sometimes. 3. Find out what the ridesharing apps are for the countries you’re visiting. We learned that Uber has no presence in Singapore, Vietnam, or Cambodia. They’re all on the Grab app. And Grab is really good. We could use it to ...
Patchouliis a member of the mint family, and native to India (as well as other semi- or fully tropical hot countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Madagascar). Deriving from the Tamil word for green,patchai, patchouli has been distilled and used in ayurvedic medicine and...
Orange pastel coloured sea and sunset at Phu Quoc island from Rabbit Island, Cambodia – Photo © Chris P King “Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There’s nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.”– Rachel Boston ...
about going to Halong Bay, get in touch with me as I have some very strong feelings on this whole situation. Regardless, we had all been traveling through Vietnam/Cambodia/Thailand for a about a month, and after weeks of eating only Asian food, the four of us bonded over discussions of...
While everyone has opinions (including yours truly) about what great Italian food is, the truth of the matter is there is no one kind of Italian food. It varies by region, by neighborhood. Hell, even by household. To say nothing of the fact that I’ve never set foot in Italy (I’m...
Local law enforcement were driving up operating costs by demanding higher and higher bribes as Cambodia, under Western pressure, cracked down on sex trafficking. "Any cop in the neighborhood would drop by and demand $5. At that point, about half the brothels in [the city] folded. Sok K...