In the taxi to SIN airport. Before 5am.
For the first time this trip, I didn’t wake up before my alarm.
I’m long forward to sleeping on the lie-flat seat in biz on this first leg to HKG.
Author: JT
Indonesia: 9th new “country” in the last 14 months :-)
If you count Hong Kong and Macau (and Puerto Rico) as distinct “countries”, which for my purposes they are (different entry requirements).
Update: changed title to say 9th, not 8th, as I forgot Puerto Rico.
Singapore CBD from the ferry
Off to Batam, Indonesia for a half day
1hr fast ferry S$47/US$38 round trip inc port taxes
And after a week in Asia I’m still waking up before my alarm clock!
Fish head curry bday dinner
With friends In Little India, Singapore last night
Back in Singapore after almost missing my flight
Talk about cutting it close out of Phnom Penh airport. Ask me to tell you the story in person – I can’t do it justice here 
Cambodia: fried grasshoppers
Better than I expected (crickets ok too but not the other bugs). Crunchy.
This was my snack, plus bananas, on the 20min stop during the 6hr bus ride to the capital ($12 for the A/C bus with toilet, plus one water bottle and a pastry inc.)
Cambodia: pull-tab beer bottle top
Would you believe a pull-tab top on a bottle of local Angkor beer? Actually the pull remains attached to the top, with a sharp edge as a bonus. Because I like to start a trip in a developing country with a cut on my hand (not the first time
Same brand, but it’s a small draft beer they sell for US$0.50 at the bars/restos in town.
Siem Reap: loc lac for dinner
Loc lac with chicken (a traditional Khmer dish), and get this, with actual clusters of peppercorns! Oh yeah!
At a resto in one of three parallel road/lanes of restos with outfit patios – spilt for choice!
US$3.75
Oddly I received not one but two US$2 bills in my change!
Siem Reap: today’s outing (sunrise, temple, water village)
1. Sunrise at Angkor Wat (tip: bring a flashlight as it is still dark when you arrive and you have to walk into the large temple grounds). Btw, Angkor Wat and the other temples are truly amazing, and way bigger than I had imagined.
2. Bakong temple (in the Roluos Group, east of Siem Reap, whereas Angkor Wat and the main temple group are north of town)
3. Kompong Phlok (village on stilts near the lake edge – water is currently 4m higher than in dry season)
