We use Facebook for quick updates, and make full blog entries as often as we can. Here are some updates we first posted on Facebook for Cambodia. We are still working on one for the photos from Angkor Wat temples and one for the Mondulkiri with elephants and zip-lining over waterfalls. We have a 48-hour trek the next two days to get from Koh Rong, Cambodia to the...
We use Facebook for quick updates, and make full blog entries as often as we can. Here are some updates we first posted on Facebook for Vietnam. Danang and Halong Bay, Vietnam A few interesting pictures. We saw the fire-breathing dragon bridge in Danang with 20,000 other tourists and locals. We watched someone carrying four foot tall ming vases on a moped. We...
Putting the adventure in travel? What happens when you land at a dock in the small island of Koh Rong in the middle of the Gulf of Cambodia at dusk, and you are far from where you need to be? Oh, and there are no roads and no boat to get you where you need to go? We had taken our five-hour “VIP” minivan ride from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville thinking we would just hop...
As you descend down into the majestic blue deep, you realize you’re travelling along a great lavender wall. Going along the wall, you can even get your nails manicured by a light sunset-colored cleaner shrimp. The Great White Wall in Taveuni, Fiji is one of the best dives in the world because it is a great technical dive. During the last ice age, the oceans around...
We love elephants. One of our best travel days ever was in Chang Mai, Thailand, caring for some. So when we found out Cambodia has elephant rescue NGO’s helping these gentle giants live in natural forests, we were ready to go to any lengths to see them. Turns out those are pretty long lengths indeed. Welcome to Sean Monourom in Mondulkiri province in Eastern Cambodia...
The ghosts of the Chu Chi tunnels are thick here. They linger in the dank, humid air as spirits of soldiers – spirits of men who were brutal killers and those who were brutally killed here on this earth beneath our feet. The killing happened during both the war with France in 1945 and later during Vietnam Civil War, which the U.S. took part in on the side of...
I, Tanner Croddy, went to four movie sets so far this trip. The first movie set was on Castaway Island in Fiji, where the movie Castaway, starring Tom Hanks, was filmed. The second movie set was the Hobbiton, in Matamata, New Zealand, where The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were filmed. The third was in Halong Bay, Vietnam where King Kong, Skull Island and the...