It is true that the first impression you have of a city can be slightly transformed by the atmosphere you’ll find in the hotel you are staying in.
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Category: Adventure Times
Punks and reggae bar
Mister loverman.. shabba! Mister loverman…
Twist and shout… Come on, come on, come on baby now..
Yep, you are in Myanmar, in the only and unique reggae bar, 7th Joint.
This bar has nothing to do with reggae except the colors on the wall and the bob Marley picture illustrating the menu. But you have a live band playing sometimes and it’s just a great place to meet people. Like these expats from France and Maurice or these two football coaches from Nigeria…
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A new start
Goodbye aren’t easy in general. On the road, you don’t have anytime to build a facade or to work on what you want to show or not. You are just truly, simply yourself. Everything is raw, big, intense. You can spend two hours with somebody and remember that all your life.
Travis and I have been traveling together for about ten days and in the end, what are ten days on a scale of an entire life or compares to the length of my trip?
Night on the pier
I’ve been told that Koh Rong was organizing night trip to swim with the phosphorescent plancton. No joking, it’s a proper activity and you can ask “Three Brothers”, they are doing that every nights.
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Passion Kayak – Adventure times
I was born in the south of France, in a pier. We moved to Paris when I was really young but my father and grand mother where still in Sete so we were spending every holidays there. My parents had a tradition: renting a kayak for one day and cruising along a river. I was not the best ever (I mean that I excelled doing zig zag, I was not really into going straight you know…) but I thought that renting a kayak with a guy who has been a kayak guide will be really fun. And it was. Mostly because I spent the first ten minutes working out and the rest of the day pretending I was taking pictures and having cramps in the arms.
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Kep – Pepper, Kidz and Crab
Kep is about eating crab and black pepper. And that’s what decided us to go there. Food had a really important part when you are traveling. You can find ingredients in a meal that provokes an explosion of happiness when they reach your mouth, really bad associations who can turn a lovely meal into “I will never eat fish anymore in my life”, or food that looks fresh at first but wake you up in the middle of the night only to realize that it has been a really wrong idea to eat in that restaurant… Food poisoning is the nightmare of all the backpackers. There is simple rules to follow but at one point, nothing is 100% sure. Usually, I won’t tempt to ingest crab, mussels, milk, not peeled vegetables, lettuce but Kep is famous for crab and black pepper so I had to eat crab and black pepper there.
Another story about toilets
Ahhhh… Buses in Cambodia. You never know how comfortable are going to be the next hours when you book a ticket to somewhere. Most of the time you leave the town on time but the time of your arrival is quite uncertain. It is IMPOSSIBLE to arrive somewhere at the scheduled hour, that’s South East Asia. No need to stress you’ll be where you want to go, maybe you will change buses three times, maybe you’ll arrive 4 hours later, but be reassured, you’ll be there. Here is the perfect exemple for the sentence: “what matters is the goal, not the way”.
Sometimes, the most expensive tickets doesn’t mean you are going to be able to have a proper seat. I’d rather pay less, arrive later but be able to sleep or extend my legs than spending one hour less and feel broken for the rest of the day… But that’s just my way of travelling! Princess style you know…
Kratie – the Dolphins
Last night, Travis, met on the bus the day before appeared at my guesthouse. It was a good surprise but I have to admit that I knew our ways will cross path at one point again.
We have a guest today: welcome Travis!
I had about 15 days until my flight left Siem Reap for Hong Kong, before I decided to leave Siem Reap with a few Swedish guys I met to cruise around Laos for a week. I figured I could travel through Laos, see the major stops along the way, get a feel for the country, and still make it back to Cambodia around 10 days before I left. Laos was the last country in SE Asia I hadn’t stepped foot in, so I felt like it only made sense to see it, even briefly.
Angkor Wat – Day 3
Last day in Angkor Wat.
The Wanderlust Queens Project 