Phnom Penh

Phnom Penh

Large chicken and strange menu choices Probably the best way to get to Phnom Penh is by bus from the centre of Siem Reap. It takes a few hours, but it avoids the hassle of flight and the inevitable long journey from the airport to the city. We arrived at the Giant...
Siem Reap

Siem Reap

Siem Reap I appreciate it’s been a while, but the name of the city must wind up the Thai people. Siem Reap references a victory by the Khmer King Ang Chan I over Siamese forces around 1530. The translation of the name is Siam defeated. I suppose it is hard to...
Pangkor Island

Pangkor Island

The other Pangkor Island We had been ogling at the Island across the water for months, as if it were the jewel in the crown of Perak – an unattainable holiday destination for those of us with ostensibly too much time on our hands, but in reality too many boat...
Pangkor

Pangkor

Telang Another day of motoring brought us to Telang, where there is a lovely anchorage if you avert your gaze from all the junk accumulating on the shore. The reason for stopping here was to spend time preparing Jamala to enter Pangkor Marina. Maria usually handles...
South to Langkawi

South to Langkawi

Chalong to Kuah There’s hot and there’s so hot that you go past caring. And that was our state of heatiness on the way past Phi Phi Island from Ko Yao Yai, where we anchored the night before. Maria’s head was hotter than a welder’s nozzle...