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Overview of Southeast Asia
0 Comments Published by Toby July 10th, 2006 in Burma, Cambodia, General, Laos, Phillipines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam.On a January afternoon in 1861, Henri Mouhot, a French naturalist, was hacking his way through the almost impenetrable jungle of Cambodia when suddenly he burst into a clearing and stopped dead in his tracks. Before his astonished eyes loomed the outlines of a stone structure. Its long grey battlements appeared to stretch into infinity, [...]
Travelling down the Mekong River
2 Comments Published by Toby July 3rd, 2006 in Cambodia, General, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam.Travelling by boat along the busiest waterway in Southeast Asia is a wonderful way of getting a short but fascinating glimpse of Vietnam and Cambodia. The Mekong River glides through the Vietnamese border, flowing down from South—West China all the way through the mainland South East Asian countries — Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. [...]