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Cambodian Border Mafia
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 21 December 2010
Cambodia is an extraordinary country – but let’s be honest, crossing its borders makes you want to strangle people. For years, corrupt Cambodian border guards and customs agents have hassled visitors to their country demanding bribes for everything from entry stamps to bird flu health forms. Sometimes, requests for bribes are aggressive and threatening. More [...]
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Exploring Backroads in Cambodia with gruesome Discoveries
Blog: Siampedia - the wild years in Southeastasia - 16 December 2010
© Frank P. Schneidewind Attention, dear readers! The following report is not suitable for minors, viewers discretion is advised It contains some pictures, which viewers may find disturbing. Please switch to any other of our reports without scrolling down, if you like animals, such as dogs. The last road trip in mid December of 2010, was not ...
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December 2010 Desktop - Siem Reap Lady Monks
Blog: Mood to Travel - 16 December 2010
December 2010 Desktop - Siem Reap Lady Monks, originally uploaded by Homdaum.Here is a free desktop wallpaper for December 2010. The picture was taken in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
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The Weekly Photo: Smiles at Angkor
Blog: Nomadic Matt's Travel Site - 12 December 2010
Smiling faces at Angkor Wat, Cambodia ©Nomadic Matt's Travel Site. Looking for travel deals, news, and tips? Sign up for my bi-monthly newsletter! You'll get all the deals, tips, and advice I can't squeeze into a blog! Related PostsThe Weekly Photo: Dinner in CambodiaThe Weekly Photo: Angkor Wat, CambodiaThe Weekly Photo: Exploring TikalThe Weekly Photo: [...]
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Angkor - Words can't describe it
Blog: Matthew's Travel Blog - My thoughts on everything - 3 December 2010
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Daily Travel Photo – Preah Vihear, Cambodia
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 27 November 2010
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Discover great travel photos. No related posts.
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Phnom Penh and Pol Pot’s secret S 21
Blog: Siampedia - the wild years in Southeastasia - 23 November 2010
© Frank P. Schneidewind This trip was haunted a little bit, but my eldest boy was accompanying me, so I prepared it well – yet almost everything failed. One way or another my e-mails got lost or never found the receiving mail box. This time, there was no fancy military bike with those desirable [...]
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Franky’s Motorcycle-School in Sihanoukville
Blog: Siampedia - the wild years in Southeastasia - 23 November 2010
© Frank P. Schneidewind We took the G.S.T. bus again in Phnom Penh, in order to get to Sihanoukville quick. The sleepy town on the coast is connected to the capital by a well maintained and surfaced road. Snooky's old name was Kampong Som, but to honor their King, it was renamed a long time [...]
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Travel Tips for Southeast Asia with Kids
Blog: My Little Nomads - 23 November 2010
Tips and advice for a family vacation in Southeast Asia. READ MORE AT: Travel Tips for Southeast Asia with Kids Most popular post: The 5 Best Greek Islands for Kids and Families Most emailed post: 29 Tips and Tricks for Traveling the World with Kids
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Rural Bus Adventure in Cambodia
Blog: Siampedia - the wild years in Southeastasia - 19 November 2010
© Frank P. Schneidewind The start for this was in Siem Reap and the road to Phnom Penh (which is blacktopped today) invited for a more economical road travel to the capital. The ticket cost, if directly bought at the bus station, was 4$ per person. A pretty good deal, if compared to the [...]
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Your Chance to Win an iPad
Blog: Desperately Seeking Root Beer - 15 November 2010
Let's keep this simple: you bid just $10, your $10 goes to an awesome charity that's building a village in India, and you get a pretty good chance to win a snazzy new iPad.
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Building a Village $10 at a Time
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 15 November 2010
Passports with Purpose is ba-a-ack with a basketful of temptations for you, and A Traveler’s Library is sponsoring TWO great vacation prizes. Here’s WHAT it is HOW you can win prizes like fabulous vacations and travel gear WHERE the money goes PWP Ingredients We are so fortunate to be able to read and to be [...]This content is a post from: A Traveler's Library To comment on this post or search for related information, click on the link to A Traveler's Library
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Vote for Aki Ra for CNN Hero
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 15 November 2010
Visitors to our site might remember Aki Ra, a former Khmer Rouge child soldier turned landmine activist, whom we wrote about when we visited the Landmine Museum outside of Angkor Wat earlier this year. Aki Ra has been nominated as one of CNN’s Heroes for 2010 for his campaign to clear Cambodia’s landmines. As if [...]
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Rough Ride to Angkor Wat
Blog: Siampedia - the wild years in Southeastasia - 11 November 2010
© 2010 Frank P. Schneidewind This trip together with my eldest boy Franky, dates back a while. It tells a bit about the hardship, which early travelers to Siem Reap had to endure. Things were already somewhat traveler-friendly there with real micro buses operating and tour dealers (I don't call them travel agents) beginning to [...]
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Most Popular Budget Airlines in Asia and Australia
Blog: My Little Nomads - 9 November 2010
Want to know where Asia's budget airlines fly? Here's a list of all the routes and destinations of Asia's low cost carriers. READ MORE AT: Most Popular Budget Airlines in Asia and Australia Most popular post: The 5 Best Greek Islands for Kids and Families
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Channeling Indiana Jones - Angkor Wat Photo Essay
Blog: Living the Dream: RTW - 8 November 2010
Angkor Wat is one of the few ancient ruins in the world that has all of the criteria necessary for pure adventuring: a huge compound, multiple styles of architecture, various levels of decay and restoration, a bit of danger thrown in to the mix, and nearly 100% open for touching and climbing.
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A Little Volunteering…Continued Mentoring Years Later
Blog: A Little Adrift - A RTW Travelogue - 7 November 2010
Two weeks ago I was playing around on Facebook as a way to procrastinate the real work I should have been doing when a chat window popped up – from a sweet young woman I met at the orphanage in Cambodia where I volunteered more than a year and a half ago. Many of the older girls at the orphanage asked for my email and Facebook details at the time and we have very sporadically kept in touch, talking every month or so, mostly just quick hellos and messages from them ...
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The Road to Kiva Borrowers
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 6 November 2010
As a Kiva Fellow in Cambodia for the past three months, I have had the opportunity to travel through Cambodia, experiencing the crowds and the charms of the urban areas and the beauty and calmness of the rural villages. Here are some of my favorite pictures of the different roads taken to get to Kiva [...]
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Lonely Planet BlogSherpa Carnival #12 - Scary Stories
Blog: Hello, Pineapple? - 19 October 2010
As the host of this month's Lonely Planet Blogsherpa Carnival, and in the spirit of the North American holiday of Hallowe'en, I have asked some of the best travel writers on the web to share their own indigestions, and recount to you, the reader, some scary tales of woe whilst travelling the face of the globe.I'll go first.
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A Little Travel Memory…A Puppet and a Green Guitar
Blog: A Little Adrift - A RTW Travelogue - 18 October 2010
Travel Memories: A Puppet and a Green Guitar My friend Laura is perhaps the most randomly happy person I know – she spotted this puppet at the night market in Luang Prabang, Laos and simply had to buy it. At that time I couldn’t imagine how she would use it enough to justify carrying but she insisted so I bought a stuffed monkey to play alongside the puppet. We carried that puppet alongside the green guitar nearly everywhere we went in Southeast Asia and although the kids often didn’t have a clue ...
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Kampong Thom and the Temples at Sambor Prei Kuk
Blog: Many Moon Honeymoon - 7 October 2010
Most tourists know Kampong Thom only as the half-way stop-off point on the bus route between Phnom Penh and Siem Reap. On the recommendation of friends, we hopped off the bus and spent the night here so that we could visit the pre-Angkorian temples of Sambor Prei Kuk.
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Phnom Penh
Blog: Many Moon Honeymoon - 26 September 2010
As we travelled South-East Asia, one city continually evoked more negative sentiments from fellow travellers than most. We heard how Phnom Penh was run down, how it was dangerous, and many other bad reports. So it was with a little trepidation that we set off from Banlung on a hard, bumpy, ten-hour bus ride, arriving in the capital of Cambodia in the late in the afternoon. The horror stories, as they turned out — as they always turn out — were baseless. Just like most of the horror stories you hear while travelling.
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The SIAMPEDIA Expedition to Cambodia – Party in Tani
Blog: Siampedia - the wild years in Southeastasia - 23 September 2010
© 2010 Frank P. Schneidewind The days in Phnom Penh came to an end, we headed further southwest in the direction of our friend Wolfgang's village. Tani in Kampot province was our goal for the day. The airport gate was our last memory of the capital, as we left Phnom Penh in a westerly [...]
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Daily Travel Photo – Angkor, Cambodia
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 21 September 2010
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Discover great travel photos. No related posts.
