Just another regular week in Battambang
This week has flown by. Just like your regular beloved annual holiday, first few days are inviting and slow and suddenly your holiday accelerates and before you know it its all over. I fear...
Tagged: Sunflower Journey
Siem Reap and the great temples of Angkor Wat
It has been an extremely full week here in Cambodia. We have been here a month and it all feels so normal in one way, and yet surreal in another that we are really...
Battambang Butterfly Cycle Tour – by Big O
On Thursday we went on a bicycle tour. The people doing the tour picked us up at our guest house. First we went to see the process of the rice paper. This is how...
Battambang Butterfly Cycle Tour – by Z
The Butterfly tour is a tour on bicycles we did the tour that we could go on. We went on bikes that were from Battambang bike shop. The guy put seats on the back...
Battambang temples, Camodian wine and the circus
I see how natural it is now for human beings to seek comfort in established routines. Wherever you are in the world and whatever your lifestyle, routines are a source of comfort and stability....
Daily routines for a volunteer family in Battambang
Routines the Cambodian Way Here we are, end of week 2 in Cambodia. It feels significantly longer than 2 weeks, for the Cambodian way is so much slower and more gentle than the lifestyle...
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...
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...