Ben & Jennie's Trip to SE Asia
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hellaposer: (via 2pd) We were there.  Bayon.
fuckyeahprettyplaces: Angkor City, Cambodia.
bigjon: Halong Bay, Vietnam The rock formations of Halong Bay are fascinating to me. I’d love to see it in person someday. [Photo by The Piersas]
Ta Prohm, Angkor complex, Cambodia
jamesnord: Let’s be honest. Figuring out what adapter to use when you are traveling is a bitch. Do I need Adapter B Plug 6? Or is it Adapter E Plug 11? Well Josh and I worked together and launched a new feature at FLIGHT 001 where you can just type in the country you are traveling to and we will pull the adapter you need. Your life, simplified. Check it out.
fuckyeahghosttowns: Bokor Hill Station, Cambodia (via) Bokor Hill Station is an abandoned French town in Preah Monivong National Park, located in northern Cambodia. The town was built in 1921 as a resort by the colonial French settlers to offer an escape from the heat, humidity and general insalubrity of Phnom Penh. Nine hundred lives were lost in nine months during the construction of the resort in this remote mountain location. The centrepiece of the resort was the grand Bokor Palace Hotel & Casino, complemented by shops, a post office, a church and the Royal Apartments. It is also an important cultural site, showing how the colonial settlers spent their free time. Bokor Hill was abandoned first by the French in late 1940s, during the First Indochina War, because of local insurrections guided by the Khmer Issarak, and then for good in 1972, as Khmer Rouge took over the area. During the Vietnamese invasion in 1979, Khmer Rouge entrenched themselves and held on tightly for months. In earlier 1990s Bokor Hill was still one of the last strongholds of Khmer Rouge. Now abandoned, most of the buildings are still standing. The site is owned by the government but is under 99–year lease to the Sokimex Group who are undertaking to relay the road and redevelop the site, repairing the old hotel and casino along with new buildings.
Banteay Srei, Angkor complex, Cambodia
I stopped into Pho Citi the other day for a 6:00 AM jetlag breakfast — it’s open 24 hours — and everything tasted wrong.
Imperial tomb outside Hue
Butterflies at the base of Phnom Kulen, Cambodia.
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