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Coverage of Vietnam has been temporarily interrupted to bring you this news flash. Reports are coming in that three English have girls recently landed in Australia. They have been wondering around Sydney for the last few hours in complete disbelief that they are finally there. Twenty-five year old journalist Jenna … Read More

After the wonders of the Coa Dai Holy Sea we boarded the bus and headed for the nearby Cu Chi tunnels. The tunnels were originally constructed by the anti-colonial Viet Minh in the late 1940 as a place to store arms but they soon became valuable hiding places for them. … Read More

After a few days of walking around Saigon we decided it was time to get out of the city and see some of the surrounding sites. Our fist stop was the Cao Dai Holy sea at Tay Ninh. The Holy Sea is the main temple of the Cao Dai religion; … Read More

Tomorrow I leave Vietnam so I though it was about time I got round to writing about my last three weeks here. I’m going to start at the beginning; our arrival in Saigon – a city that certainly didn’t live up to expectations and was possibly more busy, dirty and … Read More

I’m going to keep this short as I’m sat in a hotel reception at 7am, after being on a bus for the last 12 hours, waiting for Kat and Emily (neither of whom have any sense of direction or can read a map) to come back from checking out some … Read More

Bayon was my favourite of all the Khmer temples at Angkor. This temple was built in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries and was intended to embrace all the religions of the kingdom, including the Islamic beliefs of the newly conquered Cham (some more information on the Cham people … Read More

Having hired a tuk tuk (and driver) for the day getting to Angkor Wat was easy. We left the driver in the car park and after shaking off hundreds of hawkers asking us to buy their postcards, water, bracelets, books we made our way across the road to the walkway … Read More

Formally a school know as Ponhea Yat located in the middle of Phnom Penh the almost ghostly building that became know as Toul Sleng or Security 21 (S-21) still stands as a ever present reminder of the atrocities carried out by the Khmer Rouge. S-21 was Angkar’s (meaning the organisation … Read More

Set amongst peaceful rice fields and farmland is one of Cambodia’s most grisly sites the Choeung Ek killing field where as many as 17,000 Cambodians lost their lives under the Khmer Rouge regime. Located just 12km outside Phnom Penh Choeung Ek is where prisoners from the infamous Toul Sleng or … Read More

The day after Ream national Park we travelled to Kampot and booked a trip to the abandoned hill station in Bokor National Park. Bokor National park was originally developed by the french when they colonised Cambodia. It was an elegant hill station with a cool climate and luxurious amenities where … Read More

I’ve been in Phnom Penh for about five days now but I’m going to take you back over a week to Sihnaoukville and our day trip to Ream National Park. Ream National Park includes the only protected marine area in Cambodia, is home to more than 155 species of bird … Read More

We awoke early, but still ended up rushing around to get the bus at 8：40 because our breakfast took 20 minutes to arrive. By 8:45 we were all in reception eagerly awaiting the bus to take us to Sihanouk ville along with an English guy called Marcus and two Brazilians … Read More