by A Bird Abroad | Jul 1, 2016 | South East Asia, Uncategorized
Dalat sits at an altitude of 1,500 metres above sea level in the Central Highlands. It is known as the Paris of Vietnam and is well known for its flower gardens and rolling hills. I would liken it to Wellington, NZ with its wind and rain, I was properly cold for the...
by A Bird Abroad | Jul 1, 2016 | South East Asia, Uncategorized
Another day. Another country. Another bus ride…I feel as though I have spent a good portion of my week on a bus making my way into and around Vietnam. From Phnom Penh I took a relatively nice bus with a sane driver into Ho Chi Minh. One night there, the...
by A Bird Abroad | Jul 1, 2016 | South East Asia, Uncategorized
People who struggle with the concept of causation often (jokingly) like to note that Hitler was a vegetarian and therefore his protein deficit must have had something to do with his genocidal tendencies. If that is the case then Pol Pot must have been the most...
by A Bird Abroad | Jul 1, 2016 | South East Asia, Uncategorized
I finally escaped the madness of Bangkok and took a bus to Siem Reap in Cambodia which is the city near the temples of Angkor. I hadn’t booked ahead having realised that the online booking systems didn’t always show the cheapest room rates. Luckily the...
by A Bird Abroad | Jul 1, 2016 | Scuba Diving, South East Asia, Uncategorized
Through Big Blue us lowley DMTs and DMs were offered the deal of a lifetime…4 days of living and diving off a swanky boat in the Similan Islands, one of the top dive sites in the world for a considerably cheaper rate than normal. 15 of us got our dollar bills...
