We’re signing off now from Jakarta, as we will be leaving later today for Hong Kong. We considered blogging from there, but as that’s not really Southeast Asia in any formal sense we’re going to refrain from doing so. Our…
Our pictures from Cambodia are up here. There are about 100 of them, so you might want to have a high speed internet connection if you want to read them.
Just a quick update: We have been in Yogyakarta for the past couple of days and have been really enjoying ourselves, but between touring around and my (TP’s) conference we have not had time to blog. In short, here’s what’s…
We are leaving Siem Reap today to fly back to Indonesia: Siem Reap to Phnom Penh to Kuala Lumpur to Jakarta. Then tomorrow morning, Jakarta to Yogyakarta, where JMP will be touring around with some other friends from Singapore and…
Today we decided not to do temples, so instead we took a trip to the big lake around here named Tonle Sap. It’s a big feature in Cambodian life, and scattered around the edges are a bunch of neat village…
Today we saw temples. Angkor Wat, Bayon, Baphoun, Phimeanakas, Ta Prohm, Phnom Bakheng, etc etc etc. Many many temples. Our day started at 5:00 with a sunrise view of Angkor Wat, then breakfast back at the hotel, then a long…
As it turns out, our hotel in Siem Reap does have internet access, so we will be able to update from here. Cambodia is really neat. As we landed in Siem Reap, we flew over Lake Tonle Sap, which is…
JMP and I are having our last day in Jakarta today. We leave this evening for Kuala Lumpur, where we will be staying the night as we transit to Cambodia. We won’t be able to leave the airport (our hotel…
OK, JMP and I are trying to parse this potential complication to Anwar’s charge in the syariah courts. According to the news today, qazaf may not apply. As the New Straits Times writes, Zainul Rijal, who is Syariah Lawyers Association…
Four unrelated things: 1. A new word for my vocabulary: ngompol. It is a contraction (again, Indonesians love these) of ngomong-omong politik, or to "chat about politics." But it also means "to urinate." Which I find very clever. 2. The…
