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11 July 2015
We woke before 0600. The hotel transport took us to Siem Reap airport but dropped us outside to avoid paying the USD1 entry fee. It is a good reminder that USD1 is a significant sum in this country. We didn’t mind the short walk to the terminal. The bag-drop and check-in queues weren’t exactly short. […]
10 July 2015
Nice weather had returned to Siem Reap. We set off at 0800 by tuktuk again to Eastern Mebon, picking up where we had left off the day before. The sunlight was perfect, illuminating the facade of the first few sights we visited. The big one for the day was Ta Prohm, made famous by the […]
9 July 2015
It was a wet morning. It looked like a big cloud system was hovering around and wasn’t about to pass quickly. I was proved right and it did hang around all day. So it was a chill and massage day until attending the Phare Cambodian Circus in the evening. This is an acrobatic show performed […]
8 July 2015
Our body clocks woke us up early so it wasn’t a big deal to leave at 0550 for sunrise around 0545. According to an newspaper article I read, Angkor Wat’s west gate is ridiculously overcrowded with people waiting for the sunrise so I took their advice to go to the east gate instead. Instead of […]
7 July 2015
Leaving Kuala Lumpur We walked from the Tune Hotel to the check-in area at KLIA2 and did our bagdrop 1.5h prior to departure. Going through security, they were really slack with LAGs and metallic objects but we realised later that there was a stringent check-point near the gates. I later understood it to be a […]
19 April 2015
Daisuke and I spent a couple of hours together at Aeon mall where we grabbed lunch from the supermarket and some groceries to take back to New Zealand. After lunch, it was time for him to rest before the night flight home. I wandered around Narita a little, taking shelter away from the rain in […]
18 April 2015
Above: Narita village with the fair in full swing. I had breakfast in town. I had done most of what I wanted in Narita so spent the morning in bed checking commercial flights back to Auckland and also attending to emails, admin and bills. There weren’t any real viable flight alternatives. I checked out just […]
17 April 2015
After a breakfast of pastries, I checked-out and left my bag at the hotel reception. I began my exploration of the Narita area by walking to Narita-san, the temple nearby. It was actually a very nice temple for something that was so accessible and un-promoted. I remember the alleyway from about 15 years ago where […]
16 April 2015
I woke early this morning without an alarm. The sun was out way before 0600 I reckon. It’s nice to wake naturally, with assistance from sunlight from the outside. This wasn’t the case in wet gloomy Tokyo with natural light further obscured by neighbouring buildings. I made the most of the onsen once more before […]
15 April 2015
Hakone area After a day of shopping and pounding the pavements of the city, I left Tokyo. It was another early start with the alarm for 0600 for a shower, breakfast and packing up after 5 nights at the Tsukiji Business Ban Hotel. I left at 0700 and got to Shinjuku Station rather quickly but […]