The best decision we made during our trip to Turkey was to visit Cappadocia  - although it didn’t seem that way on the drive from the Kayseyi airport to Goreme.  On a freezing winter morning, the outskirts of Kayseri took on a depressingly Soviet feel.  Empty streets, save for the odd hunched...

We live in Toul Tom Poung. If you look on a map of Phnom Penh we’re at the bottom…just. Living in the butt-end of town has it’s benefits like cheaper rent and more of a “community” feel which I have always appreciated in cities. That said it also has it’s down points-...

When people told us that Phnom Penh gets really hot in March and April,  I thought, “So what, its always hot in Cambodia?”.  But now we understand what they were talking about.  Its May, and the rains are starting to return to the city – washing away 5 months of thick red dust and...

We decided to get out of tour and do a bicycle tour of some of the islands along the Mekong river near Phnom Penh.  I’d almost forgotten we had  done something very similar almost a year ago – cycling from island to island along the Mekong in Si Phan Don (4000 islands) in Laos. We’ve...

Year’s End 2012 from Asha and Ryan on Vimeo. 2012 was a pretty amazing year for Asha and Ryan. Selling out stuff, leaving Australia behind and travelling through Nepal, Singapore, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam before finally settling down to live as expats in Cambodia. Our last video of 2012 sees...

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The Royal Palace – walking past this place always cheers me up. We’d been avoiding going to check out Rahu.  As with a lot of expats living in Phnom Penh, we approach the main tourist strip along the riverside with a bit of trepidation.  Touts, beggars, smelly backpackers and sleazy old...