Like Dubrovnik, Trogir was a walled city of roughly Venetian vintage, but Trogir’s wall has largely crumbled away or been removed, though I know not how or why. Still it …
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Seaside town near the southern end of Croatia. A walled trading city whose origins can be traced as far back as the 7th century and variously controlled by the Byzantines, …
Lake Plitvice, Croatia
National Park in the mountains of Croatia famed for it’s rivers and lakes. Also saw the first shots fired in the Baltic conflict. It’s hard to understand, standing on the …
Budapest, Hungary
From London to Budapest where I am ostensibly from, though after having been there and seen the people, I’m not sure I buy that. Or I picked up some weird …
London, England
I’ll tell you what culture shock is, being able to understand conversations around you for the first time in eight month. Freaked me out at first. Then I met up …
Koh Phi Phi Thailand
In which I head to south Thailand with a brief stop at the world famous Phi Phi islands. I also met up with some friend from the state on holiday …
Sinoukville Cambodia
A beach party town. Fun, but not very Cambodian. This is where I said goodbye to Debi who I traveled with for two months and Rob and Jules who spent …
Bokor Hill Station Cambodia
From the beach we headed up into the hills to an abandoned hill station once home to the king’s summer getaway and a lavish casino until they were destroyed by …
Death Island Cambodia
After three days of Templing in Angkor we were spent. We joined forces with Rob and Jules and headed back down to Phnom Penh for a day. The next morning, …
Angkor Wat
Angkor Wat. At some point during the four days I was in Seam Reap I emailed on of my friends the following, which she found utterly hilarious: “I can honestly …
Bamboo Railway
After the Floating Village we made our way up to Battambang to check out the Bamboo railway. Cambodia still hasn’t fully recovered from the Khmer Rouge, transportation in particular is …
Floating Village Tonle Sap Cambodia
After Phnom Phen we headed west to see some of the floating villages along the edge of Tonle Sap, the large lake in central Cambodia. There’s a very large lake …
S21, Killing Fields Phnom Phen Cambodia
The killing fields outside of Phnom Penh are in fact just that, fields with depressions, large holes in the ground, some marked with staggering numbers, others with no sign at …
Sen Monoron, Cambodia
Not many pictures in this set because I came down with dysentery shorting after we arrived. That was fun.
Ban Lung, Cambodia
After crossing into Cambodia we were a bit overwhelmed by the dramatic increase in tourists so we high tailed it up to the far northeast corner to avoid the crowds. …
Si Phon Don Laos
Better known as the four thousand islands. Nearly on the Cambodian border the Mekong spreads out to a width of a few miles leaving many large and small islands in …
Champasak Laos
After Attapeu I went on to Champasak alone while Matt and Debi went on to another village up in the hill country. I explored the wat in Champasak and generally …
Attapeu, Laos
From Xekong it’s a short bus ride to far end of the Bolevan Plateau where village of Attapeu. From there it’s only a half day motorbike ride to the Ho …