Saturday, January 20, 2007

Summary

Hi all,

We are currently in Vientiane, Laos. We have covered quite a bit of ground in the last two weeks. We stayed 2 nights in Karon beach, Phuket. What can I say, it was a beach, there were tourists, there were prostitutes, there was sun burn, anyway... We moved to Bangkok where we arranged our Lao and cambodian visas since we had made a decision to skip the islands in favour of revisiting Angkor (Siem Reap, Cambodia).

We had a fun bus ride to Siem Reap including hitting cameras and heads on the roof of the bus and having knees crushed under seats while surfing pot-holes. It was great to be back in Cambodia even with the huge number of huge hotels that have popped up since last time. The temples were still amazing so were the thousands of tourists. It made a good photo just that bit more challenging, but we did manage, with the help of our tuk tuk man, to find some quiet spots for sunrises and sunsets. I think the highlights for me were Tha Phrom, and Phreh Khan which are both huge yet have sucumbed to the jungle somewhat.

Tha Prom
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Sunrise
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From Cambodia we headed back to Thailand to Nakhon Ratchasima for one night, Nong Kai for one night and the to Vientiane yesterday. Of course as always there are more tourists but the people seem as relaxed and honest as ever. We will stay here for at least one more day before visiting "Lao Vegas" aka Vang Vien which is like the Kao san of Lao but it has the function of breaking up a very long bus ride and the scenery is beautiful.

I will attempt to post some pictures soon, I have stolen Annie's camera for a few shots as I am shooting film and Katie's shot are not able to be posted yet.

Hope everyone is having a great summer.

Dylan

P.S. feel free to post a comment and say hi.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

hi dylan hope your having fun in cambodia .. we miss you heaps cant wait until you come back ! everytime nathan says 'tap that' we think of you.. :.) lots of love lana and the stirling kitchen p.s fucken yeah !

6:17 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

you always take such beautiful photos!
keep them coming...
Ivanka & Martin

2:58 PM  

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