Taste For A Good Cause – Taste Siem Reap Food Tour.

I spent the past weekend back in Siem Reap, my first visit there in almost 2 years, with a very dear friend who was visiting from the UK. 2 years is a very long time in terms of the hospitality scene in South East Asia & I was concerned I may not be up to…

Scholarships For Cambodia, 2018

Regular readers may remember my post last year on Elephants for Education a fund raising campaign for the Australian backed Human & Hope Association, a local NGO in Siem Reap run by locals, for locals. They are back again this year trying to raise just $7,000 for  Scholarships for Cambodia, a crowdfunding campaign that will fund…

Baby Elephant Boutique Hotel, Siem Reap, Cambodia.

As I had managed to squeeze in a couple of extra days off, I decided to combine my Bangkok trip with a couple of nights back in Siem Reap, in order to catch up with friends and to bring back some household items I had left there, until I had managed to settle myself into…

Elephants For Education, Human and Hope Association, Cambodia.

Between 1975 and 1979 an estimated 2 million people were killed in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. The regime specifically targeted “intellectuals” and as a result Cambodia lost most of their educated population. Whilst education has come on in leaps and bounds over the past few years, 20% of the Cambodian population live beneath the…