Cambodia
360 Panoramic Views
By Tony on January 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
We’ve finally finished converting our 360 panoramic views to Flash. Our collection now includes 20 panoramas, so start spinning your way around Asia. We’ve even added three new views, including: a cave temple at Ajanta in India, Ta Prohm temple in Cambodia, and the Shwe Dagon Pagoda in Myanmar.
Happy New Year’s!
By Tony and Thomas on December 31, 2010 | 3 Comments »
We can’t believe another year has passed. And, yes, we are still in Asia. To celebrate 2010, we’ve put together a video retrospective covering our travels to Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand. Stay tuned for more TnT adventures to come in 2011!
Journey to Cambodia
By Thomas on December 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Traveling through Cambodia earlier this year, we ended up with so much video footage that we never got around to assembling it into a movie. It’s been bugging me ever since. But after our trip to Angkor Wat with Tony’s mom Freda, I saw my chance and finally sat down to put it all together. Well, here it is:
Thank you Freda, Michaela, Stephan, Beverly, Lisa and Garrett for joining us here and making our adventures in Cambodia such a great experience. Speaking of Lisa and Garrett, they will be back with us soon for more adventures in Thailand, so stay tuned.
Freda Goes to Angkor Wat
By Tony on December 22, 2010 | No Comments »
So was the Cambodian border saga worth it? Absolutely. Mom has fallen in love with Angkor Wat as you can see in the gallery above. And although we were in Cambodia just ten months ago, we just can’t get enough of this spectacular world wonder.
Cambodian Border Mafia
By Tony on December 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Cambodia is an extraordinary country – but let’s be honest, crossing its borders makes you want to strangle people.
For years, corrupt Cambodian border guards and customs agents have hassled visitors to their country demanding bribes for everything from entry stamps to bird flu health forms. Sometimes, requests for bribes are aggressive and threatening. More frequently, requests are tongue in cheek pleas which appear more like jokes. Either way it’s annoying.
For this reason, we were quite happy to see that the Cambodian government’s latest attempts to crack down on corrupt border guards at the Poipet crossing had been reasonably successful. Of course, the guards still demanded a bribe before issuing our on-arrival visas, but when we said no they didn’t fight it. (Hey, that’s some kind of progress, isn’t it?) Sadly, most of the foreigners crossing the border still nervously paid bribes, some stupidly not even realizing they had done so. Oh well.
But our enthusiasm at the government’s modest reforms was relatively short-lived. It turns out » Continue reading this post »
