Cambodia culture shock
Battambang Battambang is technically the second-largest city in Cambodia, but it feels more like a small town. Battambang is 280km by road from Phnom Penh and is the only major town on National Route...
Monthly Archive: May 2014
Creating recycled gardens
First week in Cambodia and many projects to get stuck into. Our primary partner organisation we are assisting here in Battambang is Children’s Action for Development (CAD). Children’s Action for Development (CAD) is committed to providing...
Hot hot hot, dealing with the heat of Cambodia
I can’t possibly begin to describe this heat. It is at times unbearable. 40 degrees. Humid. It is exhausting. It is debilitating. It is sticky, sweaty, itchy, wet. Imagine your body feeling like it...
Day 3 in Cambodia – by Z
First we arrived in Siem Reap it was a 3 hour drive to Battambang in a air con freshened car. Well it was hot anyway! It had leather seats. Then we arrived at the...
Day 3 in Cambodia – by Big O
On Sunday 25th May we arrived in Cambodia. Then we took a 3 hour drive to Battambang. In Battambang we work on projects at CAD centres. We painted tyres and made them into plant...
Before we go, what I want to know about Cambodia – by Z
This is me, Little Z, and my questions to find out before I go to Cambodia 1. How hot is it? 2. Is the rain hot or cold? 3. What kind of food is...
Before we go, what I want to know about Cambodia – by Big O
These are my questions, Oscar, before we go to Cambodia 1.HOW HOT IS IT ? 2.WHAT ANIMALS LIVE THERE ? 3.WHAT DISEASES ARE THERE? 4.WHAT DO THE MONKS WEAR ? 5.HOW HOT IS THE...
At last, the time to talk
There is so much more time to TALK. To take time to answer the questions and chat – in a shop, at home, on the phone with friends. No longer this voice in your head...
Cutting the cord, quitting work
We have now been on the road for a few weeks – not quite Asia, but we have packed up and left New Zealand where we had been living for 4 1/2 years and...