Mark & Jen's 'Around the World' Travel & Photography Blog

I am so ignorant.
1.7 million people perished under the reign of the Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1979. The Vietnamese, the Thai, China, the US — all were involved to some extent. Pol Pot, the mastermind behind the reign of terror, died in 1998 before he ever came to trial. To his dying day, he [...]

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The moment we enter Cambodia, racing through the countryside in our taxi, the sun begins to set behind the miles and miles of endless rice fields. The clay turns a vibrant red. Mud-crusted bicycles sit abandoned on the side of the road as young boys in their underwear wade through the water, fishing [...]

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For those of you that think traveling is not work (albeit unpaid), let me detail our last 29 hours, which involved no less than eight modes of transportation:
Krabi, Thailand [3pm] - I find our passports. Let me digress for a moment; I’m guessing you want the story. Jen, having maybe her first lapse of good [...]

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(1) We’ve spent the last six days staying at a US$15/ni bungalow on an island in southern Thailand. Now, even in Thailand, a $15/ni bungalow ten feet from the water implies you are not in the most luxurious of accommodations; true enough, we discovered we were sharing the bungalow with at least one Thai-sized [...]

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Time seems to be slipping away… our rattan-latticed bungalow, the white sand, the clear blue-green water, the fresh barracuda and white snapper from the morning’s spear-fishing trip, and the wooden long-tail boats puttering back and forth….

Ao Toh Ko Bay / Our Beach Bungalow at Ao Toh Ko Bay
We originally said we would stay here [...]

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