My second day in Phnom Penh started with another tour that was organized by Envoy Hostel. Today we were taking a look at Wat Phnom, and then heading out of the city to visit a village where they produce silk products. Wat Phnom, literally translated as Hill Temple, is, shocking no one, a temple […]
If you made it through my entire first post about the Toul Sleng Genocide Memorial Museum and Killing Fields, I salute you. Thank you for taking the time to read it. That said, my first day in Phnom Penh was not solely focused on the history of the Khmer Rouge. While those four years […]
I promised to blog this trip extra candidly, so I hope y’all are ready for it here… Fair warning. Alright! So, I planned this trip to Cambodia in the loosest of terms. I had originally planned to be here, in Vietnam, and in Laos during my trip in 2015, but my medevac disallowed THAT from […]
There’s something incredibly euphoric about starting a new trip. Truth be told, I’m actually terrified of flying — probably for the same reason that I hate driving… There’s a lack of control associated with being piloted around in the sky that’s similar to having to trust that everyone else driving a vehicle on the road […]
Around July of this year, I saw the most amazing flight deal — NYC to SIN , return, for $370 USD. Yeah, you read that right. Three Hundred and Seventy US Dollars. Round Trip. New York City to Singapore. Oh, btw, with a stopover in Tokyo. On All Nippon Airways/United Codeshares. The flight was an […]
Alright, I know I had promised I’d post the next installment “tomorrow” — but an abundance of activities and some jet-lag seems to have gotten the better of me. However, I’m writing this next bit from within an awesome luxury bus from Singapore to Malacca, Malaysia, so I suppose it’s all working out well… Once […]
It’s been almost exactly a year since I set out on my open-ended backpacking adventure in Africa and Southeast Asia, and here I am on a plane again… I’m incredibly excited to bring you stories and pictures and adventures, but it strikes me that I never completed my story last time. Originally it was because […]
I know, I know, I celebrated Chanukkah? I went to synagogue? Life can be weird sometimes! If you recall from my last post, my mother’s neighbor’s son, David, happened to also be in Yangon, and he’s Jewish and wanted to celebrate Chanukkah. He and his friends had stopped by the synagogue and asked if there […]
Day two in Yangon was actually a weird bonus day, because when I arrived, I had asked my hostel to help me book an overnight bus to Bagan, and the next available bus was one night later than I had in my “plans.” However, the beauty of traveling by yourself and with no *real* plans […]
After a nice, LONG sleep in my hostel, I woke up around 10am to begin my first full day in Yangon. As I’ve mentioned countless times, it’s near impossible in almost every place I was in Africa, to walk anywhere by yourself. Whether it’s safe or there are just street-touts, you. Are. Never. Alone. So, […]
