Author Archives: M&M_Green

We’re home! We arrived safely on Friday evening, December 14, having spent the previous night in New York after an 18-hour plane journey on Royal Air Maroc from Nairobi through N’djamena (Chad) and Casabalanca (Morocco) to JFK. Our low expectations … Continue reading →

Jambo! meaning Hello! in Swahili. We are in Kenya. On the final morning of our 3-day safari to Masai Mara in southern Kenya, our Masai camp guard, Bill, let us know that during the night there was a hippo munching … Continue reading →

So what do you do when you are in a place only for 18 hours and you also need to sleep? This was the case with Dubai, our stop over between Sri Lanka and Kenya. What we opted to do … Continue reading →

Birds, boulders, and buddhas are three of the things that we will remember about Sri Lanka. Because we were only in the country for 5 days, we centered ourselves in Kandy, a city in the tea-growing hill area in the … Continue reading →

Before moving on to Sri Lanka, we really must tie up the loose ends from Thailand. You have already read about our encounter with elephants and birds, so here are a few more experiences which we would like to remember. … Continue reading →

We’ve touched the elephant’s trunk, its side, its ears, its legs, and its tail, and like the blind man, we still can’t actually tell you what an elephant is like — but we can try! One of the highlights of … Continue reading →

A quick summary of our birding in Thailand and Sri Lanka. Yes, we know that you haven’t read about Sri Lanka yet. Be patient. We’re getting there.  Doi Inchinon National Park, Thailand After our experience with a guide on Tonle … Continue reading →

Having given you our low down on Angkor Wat in Cambodia, let’s look at some living Wats in Thailand. We have seen so many, and given our now slight jadedness at the idolatry, we no longer step into every temple … Continue reading →

Travel Notice #1 If there is the opportunity, we like returning to places that have caught our attention. In Battambang we went back to the bat caves for a second night just because it was such a spectacular sight. We … Continue reading →

A wat is a temple and they are everywhere in Cambodia and Thailand. Most are ornate, alive with monks, and serve an anchoring role in the community. To our sensibilities, however, and while artistically stunning, they are as gaudy as … Continue reading →