Bean bags, pool, roof top bar, stolen flip flops, all blurred in a haze of mojitos and beer pong – the Mad Monkey Siem Reap vortex. Not many places make you feel right at home from the moment you set down, but set in prime location in Siem Reap, Mad Monkey was like re-entering the…
Mud seeped into my shoes, squishing between my toes. We crept in the dark through a swarm of people, all facing the same direction, towards Angkor Wat. We weaved under elbows and backpacks, and made our way to the front, black skies turned to a light grey; the sun had begun to rise over the…
Crossing land borders in SE Asia is always a curious endeavour. Google becomes you’re best friend as you search for reviews of service companies, try to determine which borders are opened and what the visa requirements are. Holed up on Don Det, Laos, Cambodia just a stone throw away, the mission to find our way…
It’s strange how the smallest encounter can affect you greatly. A small Laotian man tells a group of almost strangers to pair up. I’m transported back to my school years: it’s sports class and teams are being picked, but this time instead of calling out names one by one, teams (in this case pairs) are…
To arrive on a small island in the middle of nowhere after an 18 hour journey with no accommodation booked is always daunting. Exhausted, we opted to delay the inevitable and plonked ourselves down at the nearest table in a restaurant shack bridging the “port” – a miniscule stretch where motorized timber canoes pull up…
