Chilled day today, at Happy Bar, writing sunbathed but too hot, watched Kings,an which was good, everyone sat around. Then ate at Sevanthanek again, yummy fried beef with garlic and pepper. Happy to just sit today. Don Det is one of three main island people live on and visit in this area. It was …
Category: Travel Blog 2015-16
Journal entries from my year out solo backpacking round the world August 2015-June 2016
Hostel Life
Woken by heavy rain on the outside on tin rooves, I sat up, checked may watch and lay down to decide when to get up. It was 7ish so I got up, showered in cold water again, packed and dressed. Deciding to leave on the local 10.30 bus without air con but no doubt more …
Thakheke & Pakxe bus
I was dropped in Thakheke - as planned - and it was quite late, and I was very hungry so before going to hunt down a hostel to spend the night or two at, I was across the road from a restaurant with tables on the street, so sat down there. I got the menu …
Meeting Monks
After setting out to explore wats and city today, I spent an hour talking to 7 young monks/novices today at Wat Ong Teu in Vientiane, the capital of Laos! Learning English and studying it there at the table, they invited me to sit and chat when I asked from a distance if any of them …
Thahek & Kamouane
31st August 2015 Late to set off as usual and not the VIP bus I was told to Thahek. What will it be like? A village backwater, small town and not much to see, just a stopover as I don't want too long a travel day. About 5-6hours is maximum other than a sleeper. Raining …
Life starts early in Laos
I am woken each morning early, by 'holiday' standards, anything between 3am and 7.15 am. Local people start early perhaps because of the heat in the day, especially by mid-afternoon although it does seem cooler down in the south, low season and in places rainy season. I awoke today by children calling, banging in the …
Paratay beach tour and new friends
9th May 2016 - my mums birth date! I saved a fish today! Went in the trip to the beaches ( really all one beach,,), walking along one with Jo the guide, she pointed out a beached fish gasping for water....so I picked it up, paddled in to the sea, and put it in deeper water …
Temples in Phnom Penh
Wat Oulam down the road from the palace and museum Wat Ounalom was big yet I only discovered it when I saw it online tourist research and went in search. It was 'round the corner' from where I ate most nights, had looked for hotels (in fact, that may be how I discovered it!) . …
10th Century Angkor Wat
Here at Siem Reap for a week, hotel with pool and air con (although it stopped working last night), here to visit Angkor Wat and other temple ruins from 11th-15th century. Meeting Patrick at the hotel, we chatted as travellers do for a couple if hours, and he advised me not to go straight …
Same Same but Different
Who Would think I would be bored travelling?? But I am. Since arriving in Laos, I have travelled a lot, but things are same same but different is a common saying because in markets the same things on sale, stall after stall; but also now it seems the same villagers and towns; the same wats; …
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