Author Archives: M&M_Green

If you like watching acrobats, Cambodia is a good place to be. In 1986, during Cambodia’s civil war, a French humanitarian working in the refugee camps at the border of Cambodia and Thailand started teaching drawing to the refugee children. … Continue reading →

While in Siem Reap we took the opportunity to visit the Artisans d’Angkor, an organization set up in the 1990s to help recover and teach traditional Khmer handicrafts that were nearly lost during the time of the Khmer Rouge and … Continue reading →

After bats and more bats, for our last 2 days in Battambang, Cambodia, we learned from the locals. First, for a pleasant surprise. Before dinner we biked down to the White Elephant Pagoda. These buddhists really like their carvings. We … Continue reading →

One of our reasons for including Cambodia on our trip home was the opportunity to bird watch in SE Asia, and we have to admit that thus far we have had mixed results. We have been greatly surprised by the … Continue reading →

We had only a short time in Singapore, but we feel we got a taste of its multi-ethnic  culture. It started with Jean, the “domestic” who greeted us at the door of the apartment we were staying in. It belongs … Continue reading →

The final few days of our Australian safari were focused on Kakadu National Park, a vast wetlands area to the southeast of Darwin that is nirvana for birders – and also for people who like to meet salt-water crocodiles like … Continue reading →

In Cambodia everyone smiles. All the children, whether rural or urban, whether by foot or by boat (above), are dressed simply and smartly in their uniforms and go to school either for 4 hours in the morning or for 4 … Continue reading →

On November 5 we had our first big culture shock as we moved from the gleamingly modern, highly organized, obsessively clean Singapore to Siem Reap, ancient capital of Cambodia, famous for ruins of hundreds of temples, and a city where … Continue reading →

The Australian outback is BIG. Our trip through Australia included a 10-day “safari” through the outback: 3 days touring around Uluru (previously known as Ayers Rock), 1 day in Alice Springs, 3 days driving  up highway 1 to Darwin, and … Continue reading →

While in Cambodia we experimented with some different ways of travel to see the landscape. As reported in our “Learning from the Locals” blog entry, we spent one morning biking around Battambang, seeing a bit of the urban landscape. On … Continue reading →