singapore: lectures at ISEAS, dolphin lagoon at underwater world & bicultural...
Thursday, January 10: This morning we have lectures with officials at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS). According to the ISEAS website: The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies is...
View Articleimaginings of vietnam & cambodia ….
Here I am, Tuesday, January 11, 2011, sitting in Daegu, Korea and finalizing the details of my trip to Vietnam and Cambodia. I leave this Thursday, January 13; my plane takes off at 2:15 pm from...
View Articlephnom penh via guangzhou: monks and boat noodles
Tuesday, January 18: Another travel day, from Hanoi to Phnom Penh. I have to be at the airport at 6:30 a.m. for an 8:30 flight on my favorite airline: China Southern. 😦 The Hotel Ngocmai calls a...
View Articlethe security regulations at tuol sleng
Wednesday, January 19: When I first enter the Tuol Sleng prison, I find the following security regulations on a board: 1. You must answer accordingly to my question. Don’t turn them away. 2. Don’t...
View Articlephnom penh: wats, royal palaces, & killing fields
Wednesday, January 19: The breakfast buffet at Villa Langka is a still life, redolent with tropical fruits: melon, papaya, bananas, mango, pineapple, passionfruit, dragon fruit. My plate is so artfully...
View Articlebus ride to siem reap & sunset at angkor wat
Thursday, January 20: In the morning, I take the 8:30 Mekong Express Bus ($11) to Siem Reap. It’s a 6-hour ride, and luckily it has a bathroom on board! I have never encountered an on-board bathroom...
View Articlesiem reap: ancient temples & cities, the world’s largest 3-D jigsaw puzzle,...
Friday, January 21: Mani is my guide today, a 35-year-old chubby Cambodian whose English pronunciation is quite mangled. Our driver is an English literature student, but he doesn’t put his English...
View Articleexploring the fringes of siem reap: beng mealea, kbal spean & banteay srei
Saturday, January 22: Yesterday, Mani tried to convince me to hire him for more tours today, but I made the excuse that I could only afford the package I already bought through the hotel. I didn’t...
View Articlethe “grand tour” of angkor ~ and back to korea :-(
Sunday, January 23: My last day in Cambodia, and though I’m burned out and want to just lie by the pool all day, I decide at the last-minute to see some more of the Angkor temples. After all, I can...
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