8. Museum of Genocide and The Killing Fields

Not all tourists want to see the places of  torture and execution of thousands of people during the rule of the Khmer Rouge.   In the years 1975 - 1979 were killed, died of starvation or exhaustion  about 3 millions of Cambodians. This was done by other Cambodians! Places we visited are t...

7. Bazaars, sunsets and other attractions

Life in South-East Asia mainly means trade, food preparation, eating, and constant moving from one place to another. But under no circumstances on foot!  Walking is for those silly tourists! Asians always use vehicles. Even if the distance isonly 100 m. Hence, there are so many bikes, motorbikes,...

6. Phnom Pehn is getting ready for the funeral

The country has its events and is not paying any attention to tourists, Especially to those who have come here for the first time and maybe the last one. So, we are not going to visit  the Royal Palace since the praparation for the funeral - a public cremation are on. The funeral is in the ai...

5. An evening in Phnom Pehn

Air Asia (an equivalent of the European Ryan Air - meaning poor board service) took us to the capital of Cambodia.  The heat and humidity made us tired in a short time, so we arrived at the hotel quite exhausted. Only in evening were we able to go to the town centre after a couple of hour...

4. Outside Bangkok

An hour journey by the local water transportaion system on the great Chao Praya river took us to the north of Bangkok to Ko Kret island. It's where pottery is produced. By bikes - an hour on a steaming hot early afternoon. 32 deg.C. and 90% humidity. Not a problem for us! Today's trip was...

3. Sunday in the capital

How food it is to have frinds in the cities we visit!  Thanks to them we know what is going on in the capital and what is worth attanding at. Today it was a concert, in the grat Lumpini park. The Bangkok symphony orchesta give 6 annual Sunday concerts. It's all kind of music from classica...

2. Bangkok once again

Each jorney has to have its element of surprise. It happens sometimes in our beloved Thailand that  in spiteof  the charges for the Internet, there will be problems with regular entries to the blog. Thus China Airways  the Taiwan irways brought us to Bangkok ver nuch on time. We had to pay fo...

1. Transfering towards destination

Before we get where we aim to, we have to spend a night in Berlin, have breakfest at Tegel, and crowd among hundreds of others flying off to Asia too. It seems everybody's going to Asia today. Pleaase be patient waitng for our next entry..