In the jungle, the mighty jungle

Early to rise today, as we had to be on our way early for our trip out to the Elephant Nature Park. As always, a good breakfast to start the day. My friend has museli with yogurt and I had plain yogurt, both coming with mixed fruit. We both had the noodle soup, loaded up

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Out here on the streets

After spending our morning on planes and airports, we arrived at our hotel, the Green Tiger House early in the afternoon. I’m digging the logo. We hit up a couple of local wats, Wat Chedi Luang and Wat Phan Tao. Over to Wat Phan Tao. We heading out to the gate surrounding the inner part

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Bustling and Hustling

We arrive to Phnom Penh late Monday. Ended up in traffic for almost two hours on the relatively short trip between the airport and our hotel. Our poor driver was getting frequent calls from the hotel asking where we’re we. Once there we hit up a restaurant on the hotel’s recommendation, at The Sugar Palm,

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The Grand Tour, Part 2

Day two of Siem Reap starts off on the right foot, as we managed some extra sleep. Started off with a filling breakfast at the hotel. Noodle soup with pork, various breads and fruit, and yogurt. Our guide picks us up at 8:30 and we take an hour drive up to Phnom Kulen mountain. We

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The Grand Tour

Grudgingly we awoke at 4:30 so we could be on our way for the first of our two-day tour. Unfortunately our tour guide for mixed up with a similarly-named hotel. Once that got straightened out we had to buy our pass for the day at a ticket center, which was packed with other early risers.

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Wat to do, wat to do.

Early to rise Friday morning brought us to the airport and later to Siem Reap. This is another airport that we unloaded via air stairs, but no bus this time, we had a nice long walk to immigration. This was definitely one of the nicest immigration areas at an airport I’ve seen so far. Once

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Overflowing

So we’ve spent Wednesday and Thursday at the Dewa Resort in Phuket. This was a nice change of pace, nothing to explore, nowhere to rush to, just chilling. After we got settled, we set out for lunch at Khwanta’s Seafood Restaurant. I had seafood with fried noodles and my friend had seafood glass noodles. After

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Standing Tall

The weather gods have smiled on us as we went to Ayutthaya, north of Bangkok. We journeyed up to the Mo Chit Bus Terminal This is an interesting bus system they have, using regular busses and vans. This got us to Ayutthaya and at the end of the line we rented a tuk tuk to

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Shiny

Our tour of Bangkok continues with the early morning trek out to the Grand Palace. As a heads up to anyone considering visiting the palace, make sure you have you passport with you!

Baby, it’s hot outside

We got in late last night to Thailand, due to a two hour delay on our flight. Had a quick dinner of Burger King, despite our appetites being shot. Started the day with a taxi ride out to the floating market.