Let me preface what I’m about to share with you by saying that I really enjoy surprises. I think you could probably place me in the upper tier of “surprise lovers.” However, two out of the three surprises listed below certainly made me question my love for surprises in a very big way. Surprise 1: Ho Chi…
Cambodia is a case study on how good we have it in the U.S. From 1975-1979, ~25% of their population was killed (2 million people) by the ruthless Khmer Rouge regime through a combination of mass murder, disease, and starvation. Along with 2 million people, the Khmer Rouge also killed the Cambodian (also known as…
THAILAND LAOS CAMBODIA In case you can’t tell by our selections below, Khmer food was our least favorite cuisine. We found the food in Cambodia to essentially be subpar Thai food so we tended to explore other cuisines during our time there.
Brian and I were laughing the other day because who names a travel blog “Beaches & Backpacks” and then travels for just shy of two months without setting foot on a single beach. Well, apparently we do! We highly doubt you’ve been holding your breath anxiously anticipating a beach blog post but on the off…
We recently had the pleasure (probably not the right word) of experiencing one of the most notorious border crossings in Southeast Asia, the land crossing from the 4000 islands in southern Laos into Cambodia. Going from one corrupt country to another, more corrupt, country, via a lightly-used crossing point is a recipe for, I don’t…
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