Posts in Category: Asia
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Angkor Wat – Cambodia’s Gift to the World
Alas, this is my final post from the life-changing 2023 trip to Southeast Asia which started in Bangkok and will now end in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Adventures Abroad has delivered everything Alison and I could want on this odyssey through three completely different countries Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. The good news is that they have […]
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Siem Reap – Gateway to Angkor
In the last post from the 2023 Adventures Abroad tour of Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia I had the unpleasant, but necessary task of documenting our visit to the Killing Fields. Those events occurred within my lifetime and demonstrated, as does the current situation in Ukraine, that you can never take peaceful co-existence and human sanity […]
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The Killing Fields – Cambodia’s Nightmarish Past
Ever since I was a young boy I have always had a compulsion to visit places where terrible things have happened. I think this sprung from my fascination with history and I know it was confirmed when at age 13 I visited Vimy Ridge and other WWI sites with my grandfather, knowing he had fought […]
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Phnom Penh – More Than the Killing Fields
In my last post from Southeast Asia our group concluded our visit to Vietnam by visiting the Mekong Delta where we spent a day exploring this watery wonderland. However, this epic journey through three countries with Adventures Abroad has not come to an end as we will now head to Cambodia for the final five […]
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Mekong Delta – Vietnam’s Endangered Lowlands
This is my ninth and final post from our 2023 trip to Vietnam with Adventures Abroad. In the last post our group toured Saigon and found out that the entrepreneurial spirit there marks it as quite different from Hanoi. In this last post we’ll head down to the Mekong Delta where the majority of Vietnam’s […]
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Saigon – Definitely Not Ho Chi Minh City
In the last post we wrapped up our time in central Vietnam by visiting the fascinating city of Hue and now it’s time to head to the south of the country for our final few days of this wonderful Adventures Abroad tour. Accordingly we take the 90 minute flight from Hue to Ho Chi Minh […]
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Hue – Vietnam’s Royal City
The Adventures Abroad tour of Vietnam continues to go from one highlight to another with the last two stops Hoi An and My Son both being UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Well the hits just keep on coming as we head for our third World Heritage Site in a row, the former royal city of Hue. […]
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My Son – Spiritual Capital of the Champa Empire
In the last post from the Adventures Abroad tour of Vietnam we settled in for a three day stay in the wonderful little city of Hoi An. On the second full day there we left the city to visit the archaeological site of My Son which like Hoi An is also a UNESCO World Heritage […]
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Hoi An – Vietnam’s City of Wood
In the last post from the Adventures Abroad Vietnam tour we visited two very different sites in Da Nang, the Museum of Cham Sculpture and the pagodas of Marble Mountain. It was yet another eye opening day in this fascinating country as I had no idea who the Cham people were and their important role […]