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• • A spot of rain
  • by letterfromthailand
    

  • in letterfromthailand.blog.co.uk

  • 5 days old
  • I finally arrived at the main road transit depot of Cambodian capital Phnom Penh two days after I’d set out from Bangkok under the impression that it would be a good idea to get the bus rather than a plane. After diving through an excitable congregation of taxi drivers who looked set to batter each other over a customer, I climbed into the... more
  • Tags: + cambodia , + floods , + ireland , + irish , + journalism , + media , + phnom penh , + rain , + thai , + thailand , + travel
• • Where in the fuck did you learn that?!
  • by letterfromthailand
    

  • in letterfromthailand.blog.co.uk

  • 20 days old
  • Although not usually one for temples and the like, I spent a full day happily wandering around the vast ruins of Angkor in north-western Cambodia, oohhing and aahhing with the rest of the international contingent and snapping away with my camera like I knew what I was doing. The first main attraction was the ornate, five-towered main temple of... more
  • Tags: + angkor , + angkor wat , + cambodia , + ireland , + irish , + journalism , + language , + thailand , + travel
• • A behind-the-scenes tour of a coffee roasting mill Pakse offers a bittersweet experience
  • by thaitraveler
    

  • in Thaitraveler.blog.co.uk

  • 43 days old
  • Confusing ... there's no other word for the place. Just off Highway 13, eight kilometres from Pakse in southern Lao, stands a low-rise building that's a coffee-roasting mill by day and a disco by night. Following the tour guide towards its concealed entrance, I'm trying to fathom what they serve here to keep the young boppers awake and shaking... more
  • Tags: + beans , + behind the scenes , + boloven plateau , + cafe lao , + celebrated , + coffee , + fathom , + french , + highway , + island , + lao , + lao coffee , + leisure , + life , + mekong river , + pakse , + robusta , + secret , + tour , + wat phou , + wedding song
• • 'No hand grenades, guns or hard drugs in rooms please'
  • by letterfromthailand
    

  • in letterfromthailand.blog.co.uk

  • 47 days old
  • Travellers opting to bus their way across the 400 miles from Bangkok to Cambodian capital Phnom Penh leave themselves open to a range of scams and rip offs, but this was a fact I didn’t across until I was already onboard. Myself and my other passengers realised something might be up after discovering references to the Bangkok-Phnom Penh... more
  • Tags: + cambodia , + ireland , + irish , + journalism , + thailand , + travel , + writing