Tag Archives: cambodia

Why I fell in love with the North of Cambodia.

After the scooter accident, most of our plans got changed. We wanted to go to Kep and spend a few days on Rabbit Island, we wanted to skip Phnom Penh and go to Ban Lung in the Ratanakiri province for some trekking… But we spent 10 days at Hacienda for me to fully heal, and […]

A long due hello from the beach

It might beĀ  because the sun drew out the energy, Julie needing a relaxing place to regenerate from the scooter incident (and maybe also the availability of friggin Mario kart) that it has now been ages since I decided to write a new post. Being here, I have also used the time to be essentially […]

Kampot, Kep and the scooter incident.

We (Sophie, Dennis and Julie) left Hacienda on Sunday morning and took a mini van to Kampot. We decided to follow Mark’s advice and booked a double room at Mad Monkey and Sophie stayed in a dorm. The first night, we didn’t do much, we met Swiss Sophie, a friend of our Dutch Sophie from […]

Impressions of a divided road of good intention

I started this post the completely wrong way the first round. I wanted to write a “the system” and “big brother rules the west” post, and denied it. Starting from scratch now, I realised that I can’t possibly compare two systems I barley know anything about (because they’re so friggin huge). I can only try […]

Siem Reap – Kingdom of wAnders.

When we arrived in Beijing from Seattle, Hong Kong Airlines refused to give us our boarding passes unless we had a flight out of Thailand. Conclusion: here’s Julie and Dennis booking a random flight to Cambodia from Bangkok. And you know what? It was the best decision ever. We ended up paying less than $100 […]

Sunrise on Angkor Wat

We thought that the best way to make you enjoy our experience was to share it with you.