Tagged: family travel

Battambang Bamboo Train

Bamboo Train, Battambang The Bamboo Train is high on the tourist trail for Battambang which runs on a now short single-line track a few kilometres south of Battambang in O’Dambong Village. The track is...

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...

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...

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...