Angkor What? Angkor Wat and the other temples in the complex are not famous for nothing: they are simply breathtaking!
Bamboo train in Battambang
As I want to go to Viet-Nam after Cambodia, I need the visa! I read a lot about Visa between $35 and $50 in Cambodia, but from the 1st of January, it increased to $60. Ouch! At least, it is…
The South: Kep, Rabbit Island and Kampot
Enjoy the sea: the air, the crabs, the fish, and the pepper.
Phnom Phen
We arrive in the capital on the 1st of March. It is the first real city after Chiang Mai 5 weeks earlier. Way bigger than the small Vientiane. You have all facilities, and even some towers hosting banks. The traffic…
Kratie & Kampong Cham
The bus leads us to Kratie, where we stay 2 nights. We rent a bicycle for the day. It is very nice to ride through the villages. The high temperature is quite exhausting though, and we have to pause many…
Organized scam in Lao-Cambodia border
In Don Det, Laos, we meet Samira from Iran. She is traveling for almost 5 months so far (Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Thailand). She is the first I met from Iran so far, and I tell her about how I liked…
Southern Laos
From the Boloven plateau to Champasak to the 4000 Islands
The Loop: a 500km motorbike journey in Central Laos
We learnt in our first bike trip that Chineese made bike are easier and cheaper to repair. In Thakek, we don’t have much choice anyway (apart the $35 a day 250cc Honda): the few bike shops only offer the Chinese…
Camera broken in Laos
A few days after entering in Laos, my camera (Panasonic Lumix G3) stopped working: the power on/off switch does not react anymore. Laos is quite a bad place for such an issue: I did not find any distributor of a…
Vientiane
Vientiane might be the most populated city in Lao, it remains quite a small town with less than 300 000 inhabitants. Some sights are interesting. Patuxai is a nice Lao version of the Paris “Arc de Triomphe”. The stupa “Pha That…