Khmer Wedding Crashers
Glasses clink around me. People shout, “Chul Muy!” Someone scoops more ice into my cup of beer. Everyone smiles. ‘Chul Muy’ is the Cambodian word for ‘cheers’ and there was no lack of… Continue reading
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Genocidal Tendencies: Fractured Cambodia & the Khmer Rouge (Part III — S-21 Prison)
Chum Mey, a frail, white-haired Cambodian man in a pinstriped shirt stands beneath the shade of an oak tree at the gates of Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, a Khmer Rouge prison camp in… Continue reading
Genocidal Tendencies: Fractured Cambodia & the Khmer Rouge (Part II — Escaping Pol Pot)
My Cambodian guide Run Phyros tells me about how the Khmer Rouge exterminated his entire family as we leave the Killing Fields. Nearly every middle-aged Cambodian I’ve talked to has felt the wrath… Continue reading
Genocidal Tendencies: Fractured Cambodia & the Khmer Rouge (Part I — The Killing Fields)
Thousands of craniums stare back at me with cold, petrified expressions. Spider webs dangle in eye hollow sockets. Thousands of skulls — piled as a high as a small apartment building — loom… Continue reading
Explosive Phnom Penh: Boom Boom Pow in the Jungle
The only thing I can smell is gunpowder. It flirts with my nostrils. The sun is sinking behind lush green hills somewhere in the Cambodian countryside. It’s a sticky, humid, dusty mess out… Continue reading
Bangkok Joe: Sakic’s Love of Thai Suits
Roaming the narrow, bustling passageways of Bangkok’s Khao San Road, a snapshot of a celebrated NHL hockey player’s face stared back at me. Joe Sakic, the man with the iron wrist shot, former… Continue reading
Bangkok Urban Dictionary
Here are some simple phrases I picked up during my Thai travels. I hope you like saying these words as much as I do. Chang – My favourite Thai beer. The one with… Continue reading
Khaosan Road Craziness
Palm reading fortune tellers pull you into graffiti splattered alleys to spill shocking truths about your life. Mischevious tuk tuk drivers chirp at you from every angle. Occasionally, mysterious figures engulfed by shadows… Continue reading
Skin Deep: Phi Phi’s Bamboo-zling Tattoo Industry
What happens in Thailand stays in Thailand — except permanent ink. Brennon Hittel, a Canadian backpacker from Medicine Hat, Alberta knows this all too well. Brennon spontaneously inked a full moon on his… Continue reading
Enter Thailand: Fiery Debauchery in Paradise on Phi Phi Island
I wrapped my internship at Asian Geographic last week on April 26th. It’s crazy how time flies. It feels like yesterday that I was stepping off a flight from Canada, reeling with jet… Continue reading