Cambodia

Cambodia by the sea

Cambodia by the sea

The final days of our Cambodian holiday were spent at the seaside. I’d originally booked a hotel in Sihanoukville but a Twitter friend warned me just in time to rebook that this town is currently a building site taken over by Chinese building dozens of casinos. He...

Cambodian sadness

Cambodian sadness

Generally I’m the sort of person who needs to know a bit about a place before going. The Maldives and other paradise holiday destinations like Thailand, Singapore, Egypt, Israel, India all have various ways of disrespecting people’s human rights. Dubai is built on...

Angkor Wat

Angkor Wat

We visited Angkor Wat, the vast temple complex the size of Manhattan that dates back to the height of the Khmer Empire in the 12th Century. Originally constructed by Suryavarman II as a Vaishnavite Hindu temple, depicting stories from Hindu epics the Ramayana and the...