Paul's Oriental Travelogue

Regrets

I did not try the spiders in Skuon (on Feb 24), though I probably should have. The bus left early in the morning and I was not in a mood to do anything but scowl out a muddy bus window....
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Ho Chi Minh is a Son of a Bitch

Saigon is a happenin town. I had anticipated a nice transition from the third world to the second, but this is quite a step up for a sleepy Cambodian country boy like myself. The bright neon lights, paved multi-lane highways,...
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A thousand words

Using the wireless internet and watching motorbike collisions on the street below at the Foreign Correspondent's Club (just a fancy ex-pat bar) in Phnom Penh, I've put up long awaited Angkor pictures. And some from my tour around Cambodia's South...
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Drink in the Palm Trees

On the surface everything in Cambodia sucks. The weather's not so great; either it's incredibly hot and dusty or it's even hotter and rainy. The beer is not especially good. Most stores are actually drab shacks with a proprietor sleeping...
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Del Bokor Vista Phase II

It's a shame that most of Cambodia's tourist attractions involve ruined, abandoned cities. Sure Angkor was a lost cause eight hundred years ago, but along the south coast unless you're there for the beach, you've come to look at lovely...
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