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| Not a bad view from our guesthouse restaurant with a cold beer and a Thai green curry... |
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| Floating raft house, our room is the second from the left... |
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| Memorial of these who died here working on the death railway.... |
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| Bridge over the river Kwai... |
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| Ms Um Taxi, the first female tuk tuk driver we have seen in south east Asia..... |
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| Back in Bangkok, this time for more than sleeping off jetlag!!! |
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| Fake ID's from student to diving certificate and even university degrees.. |
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| Khoa san road, a pretty cool place... |
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| The Royal Palace.. |
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| Chinatown, which apparently has the largest population of chinese outside of china... |
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| Chinese Dumplings, Em's favourite snack! |
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| Looks like road kill duck... |
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| Roasting chestnuts |
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| It's hard to explain how many shark fins were on display with restaurants selling soup and even harder to imagine how many there are worldwide for something that's not even that good?! And so cruel... |
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| Maybe we'll do this with our campervan in Oz! |
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| After a while of deciding we finally chose to do a Thai cooking class, mostly because we had spoken to a real foodie on one of our trips who said that the tour around the morning market was so good that he would have paid just for that, plus really wanted a better understanding of the methods, ingredients and how to make amazing green & red curry paste and tom yam paste. Turns out that even though we were in the countie's biggest market, we didn't get the tour we were after! |
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| Anyway the rest of the day turned out pretty cool and learned a lot more about Thai cooking and ingredients... and got to eat them of course! |
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| One of the best Tom Yam soups we have both eaten... |
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| Start of the Tom Yam paste and an amazing peanut sauce.. |
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| We were surprised how flat the landscape is in this part of Cambodia... |
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| We drove to see a temple on a hill and another one of the killing sites of the Khmer Rouge. This is the start of a Buddha's head and is as far as they got before funds ran out... |
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| This is the top of a killing cave |
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| Inside the killing cave... |
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| After a while of driving and getting lost for about two hours we finally found the only vineyard and wine producer in Cambodia... |
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| Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes are grown to make reds and tropics-resistant Black Queen and Black Opal grapes to make rosés.... |
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| We had a taster, from left to right is: ginger and honey- which is used to flavour the brandy, grape juice, brandy- which despite what we had read was OK, and the Shiraz- which tasted like a very bad red wine vinager..... |
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| Piggies off for the slaughter!!! |
