The longboat ferry departs Don Det right on schedule, contrary to local custom. The short trip brings us to the riverbank near the Lao-Cambodian border,…
Having finished high school, gotten my place at uni and taken a gap year, I was at a bit of a loose end. The thought…
Party drugs like ecstasy, ketamine and cocaine find their way into the pockets of festival, concert and couch-session attendees, making them as common as a…
It was 3am, and I’d been swaying to mindless chart music at a beach bar in Sihanoukville for far too long. When I’d arrived in…
He moves me across to the middle of the bed from above with his strong hand between my shoulder blades. My arms flop over my…
I’m on the second story of an abandoned building in Phnom Penh that was probably a decent hotel at one point. A man leads me through a…
Woody Allen’s film Midnight in Paris is about a Hollywood screenwriter who unwittingly time travels back to the 1920s and meets his favourite dead writers….
When I wake up, the hostel room seems hotter and whiter than before, maybe even smaller, if that makes sense. My alarm’s ting-a-ling grows louder…
It’s a tired old cliché that you learn more about yourself when you go travelling overseas. And without a doubt, I learned a great deal about…
Get There: Ivy Guest House: Central Market Street, before the river on the right Cost: Everything 1USD (tapas, cocktails, beer) When you manage to wine…
Get There: Tep Vong (Achamean) Road & Oum Chhay Street, Svay Dangkum, Siem Reap Open: 8am – 12pm & 2pm – 5pm Monday to Friday;…
Get There: 15 minute tuk-tuk trip from Sihanoukville Situated in comfortable and yet practical distance to Cambodia’s own little STI-ridden hell also known as Sihanoukville,…
