Cambodia – Alex In Wanderland https://www.alexinwanderland.com Thu, 30 May 2019 23:17:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The Great Escape: Months 55 and 56 Roundup https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-great-escape-months-55-and-56-roundup/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-great-escape-months-55-and-56-roundup https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-great-escape-months-55-and-56-roundup/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2016 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=42197 Oh, my monthly roundups. They are so ridiculously out of sync with real time now that I recently considered axing the series, but I decided to play catch up instead — so brace yourself for a couple of these coming up! Apologies for the delay, but I suppose better is late than never. Home sweet Thailand! […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-great-escape-months-55-and-56-roundup/feed/ 26 Where To Eat and Drink in Siem Reap https://www.alexinwanderland.com/where-to-eat-and-drink-in-siem-reap/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=where-to-eat-and-drink-in-siem-reap https://www.alexinwanderland.com/where-to-eat-and-drink-in-siem-reap/#comments Sun, 17 Jul 2016 12:30:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=42192 I’m not sure I can remember a single thing I ate or drank on my first two trips to Siem Reap — aside, of course, from several gallons of cheap cocktails at Angkor Wat? nightclub. Those trips just had a different focus. But for my most recent return to the city, I couldn’t have been more […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/where-to-eat-and-drink-in-siem-reap/feed/ 37 Angkor Wat Photography Tips https://www.alexinwanderland.com/angkor-wat-photography-tips/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=angkor-wat-photography-tips https://www.alexinwanderland.com/angkor-wat-photography-tips/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2016 12:30:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=42190 Angkor Wat is on many a traveler’s bucket list. And whether those travelers are professional photographers, aspiring shutterbugs or just Instagram enthusiasts with smartphones, chances are they want to take home beautiful photos that will help them remember and reminisce about their trip for a lifetime to come. My trip this year was no exception. Actually, […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/angkor-wat-photography-tips/feed/ 50 Serene in Siem Reap: Dreaming of Navutu Dreams https://www.alexinwanderland.com/navutu-dreams-resort-review/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=navutu-dreams-resort-review https://www.alexinwanderland.com/navutu-dreams-resort-review/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2016 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=40805 Welcome to Cambodia. I beamed when I heard it, a now familiar phrase. This was my fourth trip to Cambodia and my third to Siem Reap, the city whose airport we had just landed in from Bangkok. There are plenty of unticked places on my Southeast Asia to do list. So why return to the same […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/navutu-dreams-resort-review/feed/ 30 My Travelversary: Year Five https://www.alexinwanderland.com/five-years-of-travel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=five-years-of-travel https://www.alexinwanderland.com/five-years-of-travel/#comments Tue, 14 Jun 2016 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=41651 “Aim high, time flies.” I stared down at the message I’d just cracked out of a fortune cookie and wondered at the odds that this particular prophecy had found me. I was in a strip mall takeout joint in my hometown of Albany, New York, where I was quietly celebrating the fact that five years to […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/five-years-of-travel/feed/ 59 Photo of the Week 236: Bangkok and Siem Reap https://www.alexinwanderland.com/photo-of-the-week-236-bangkok-and-siem-reap/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=photo-of-the-week-236-bangkok-and-siem-reap https://www.alexinwanderland.com/photo-of-the-week-236-bangkok-and-siem-reap/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2015 23:50:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=38287 Wow — what a week! This was the first time I pulled my passport out since arriving in Thailand in late September, and only the third time I’ve left the comfy shores of Koh Tao in the same time period. And while I’ve been endlessly content to sit still lately, this trip was a blissful reminder of how good […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/photo-of-the-week-236-bangkok-and-siem-reap/feed/ 72 The Wanderland Guide To Travel Planning: Breaking it Down to Bangkok and Siem Reap https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-wanderland-guide-to-travel-breaking-it-down-to-bangkok-and-siem-reap/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-wanderland-guide-to-travel-breaking-it-down-to-bangkok-and-siem-reap https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-wanderland-guide-to-travel-breaking-it-down-to-bangkok-and-siem-reap/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2015 02:30:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=38284 Happy holidays! This post is brought to you by KAYAK. . Whether it’s off on an exotic beach getaway or back to a snow-filled hometown, it’s no secret that the holidays are a crazy popular time to travel. Despite that I’m on a self-imposed six-month travel sabbatical, even I couldn’t resist getting in on the fun. Right now, I’m […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-wanderland-guide-to-travel-breaking-it-down-to-bangkok-and-siem-reap/feed/ 46 My Travelversary: Year Four https://www.alexinwanderland.com/four-years-of-travel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=four-years-of-travel https://www.alexinwanderland.com/four-years-of-travel/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2015 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=35684 June is a pretty big month around these parts — the 9th (yup, this post is a tad late, what else is new) marked four whole years in Wanderland. Four years since the day I took off from New York on a one-way ticket. Fourty-eight months since alexinwanderland.com went live. One thousand, four hundred and sixty […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/four-years-of-travel/feed/ 104 The Great Escape: Months 42 and 43 Roundup https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-great-escape-months-41-and-42-roundup/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-great-escape-months-41-and-42-roundup https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-great-escape-months-41-and-42-roundup/#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2015 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=34549 Note: Yup, I’m a little behind posting roundups. After the next one, however, we should be all caught up. Sorry for any confusion my lazy posting has caused! From Halloween to my birthday to Thanksgiving to Christmas, this was a period of big celebrations! And big heapings of time spent with some very special people. Over […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-great-escape-months-41-and-42-roundup/feed/ 24 A Tale of Two NGOs: Hope and Healing for Cambodia https://www.alexinwanderland.com/visiting-ngos-in-cambodia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=visiting-ngos-in-cambodia https://www.alexinwanderland.com/visiting-ngos-in-cambodia/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2015 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=33726 My recent week in Cambodia was all too short. However, I did manage to sneak a lot in. In addition to playing house in Phnom Penh, I was lucky enough to get a truly behind-the-scenes look at two organizations making a big difference in the lives of the Cambodian people. Kampong Trach Middle School Betsy is […]
 
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