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9th April 2023
Today we tried to get up to watch the sunrise, but unfortunately when we reached the beach, we saw that the horizon was covered in clouds from last night’s storm. We still got to see some of the colours of the sunrise, but weren’t able to get the full experience. After breakfast we all got […]
8th April 2023
Today after breakfast we met our guide, who bought us on a walking tour of the island to see the village. We started by walking to the local school, crossing the only real road on the island (still under construction) Our guide made us stop to try some local rice noodles and then showed us […]
7th April 2023
Today I woke up not feeling so well, but we had to take another bus to our next stop, the island of Koh rot, thankfully I was able to nap most of the 4hr bus journey ride to the boat, which then took another 2hr across the bay to the island. Once on the island […]
6th April 2023
Today is a more cultural day as we would be learning more about the Cambodian genocide, We got on the bus after our breakfast and drove to the killing fields, the site of a horrible genocide that happened less than a 50 years ago in Cambodia, where the ruling group, the Khmer Rouge, would kill […]
5th April 2023
Today was another long travel day, as we made our way to the capital city of Cambodia, Phnom Peng. We got up early and after a quick breakfast, were greeted with a full sized buss just for us, which was great because it meant that we could each have a full row to ourselves to […]
4th April 2023
Today we got up at 4h30 in the morning and got in a van on our way to Angkor Wat, to watch the sunrise there. On the way we had to do a quick stop by the visitor centre so that they could take a photo of our faces as we were all barely awake […]
3rd April 2023
Today we woke up very early at 5h30 in the morning and boarded our mini bus on the way to Cambodia. On this journey we travelled for about 4 hours before we arrived at the Cambodian Border where we exited Thailand and officially entered the country, thankfully everything went smoothly and we all made it […]
2nd April 2023
The flight from dubai landed at 7am in Bangkok where after disembarking we had to weave our way across the huge airport to immigration, who didn’t even look at us just took our passport stamped, finger prints and good to go. Next was luggage claim which was also super easy as my luggage was there […]
1st April 2023
Today after making the final preparations to my luggage we drove to CDG where i was dropped off. Apparently i am too good at airports now because i managed to make it through check in and security in less than 10 mins but i got cocky so my bag got selected for security screening which […]
25th December 2022
Today is Christmas day which made it a bit more complicated to travel, as there were practically no taxis in the city, and after struggling to order one by phone or uber, I downloaded a local app and managed to find one that bought me to the airport, earlier than planned but better early than […]