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Griztam i Tailanda

Atitrukau nuo rasymu ir pasakojimu. Sveikata truputi slubavo, ryskiai neplauti ananasai pasitaike reikalai pasitaise, tai griztu prie pasakojimu.
 

 
Paskutini karta rasiau, kai buvo Kambodzos sostinej. Sekanti vieta Siem Reap, siaurine Kambodza, garsejanti sventyklom. Visai jaukus miestukas, pilnas baru ir restoranu, 100% pritaikytas turistams. Isbandziau pedu masaza Visai patiko. Ross nebando, bijo, kad [...]

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Gyvunijos pasaulyje II dalis

Vaziuojam tuk tuku per laukus, dairinejuosi aplinkui. Ziu, kokie tai gyvunai ganosi. Bandau speti, kas cia tokie. Turi dvi kupras ant nugaros, is figuros i kupranugarius panasus, bet spalva ne ta… Dalinuosi mintimis su Ross. Jis sako, kad cia karves. Ziuriu atidziau, akurat, snukiai karviu. O tos kupros ant nugaros, tai kaulai kysantys. Pavirsti i [...]

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Kambodzos sostine

Kaip jau sakiau, Kambodza mums palieka geresni ispudi nei Vietnamas. Smagiau jau vien del to, kad cia imanoma kvepuoti ir pereiti gatve. Taisykles keliuose vis dar neegzistuoja ir zmones devi pizamas kiaura para, bet miestas ne toks sausakimsas ir dulketas.Siandien aplankem keleta zymiu vietu. Ka tik grizom i viesbuti, o as jauciuosi prislegta matytu vaizdu. [...]

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The Killing Fields

Well what can I say?
Gruesome, depressing and unbelievable comes to mind.  Choeung Ek, the killing field about 15km outside Phnom Penh is just one of dozens of these fields where the Khmer Rouge took thousands of innocent people to be executed between 1975 and 1978.
I could go into this horrific story in great detail but [...]

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Trumpas vizitas Sihonoukville

Apsistojom musu draugu viesbuty. Zmoniu nemazai, tai gavom vieninteli laisva likusi namuka. Viskas butu puse velnio, bet jame nera kondicionieriaus. Gaunam kruva pazadu, kad vakarais cia atvesta ir miegoti pats tas. Dairomes aplinkui, vieta tikrai labai grazi. Baras, restoranas, viskas du metrai nuo juros kranto. Valgom skania vakariene, issirenku skanu kokteili dar skanesniu pavadinimu “gyvate [...]

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Lietuvaite Kambodzoj

Patiems truputi netiketa, bet kol kas turim pasakyti, jog Kambodza mums labiau patinka nei Vietnamas. Salis su perspektyvom. Matosi, kad daug pastangu dedama i sitos salies vystymasi. Tik aisku, turi praeiti daug laiko, kol zmoniu supratimas ir poziuris pasikeis. Kol kas sokiruoja vaiku, pardavinejanciu prekes gatveje, skaicius. Kiekvienas meniu restorane turi prierasa ‘nepirkit prekiu is [...]

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Cambodian Wedding

It’s about 7am and as I sit here on my balcony overlooking the Tonle Sap river in Phnom Penh checking my fantastic Fantasy Football score I’m distracted by some awful music coming from around the corner.
I don’t have to move from my seat to find out what’s going on as the music is getting closer.  [...]

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Phnom Penh

The next day we decided to head up Phnom Penh so we arranged a couple of bus tickets through the hotel and got the 12:30 bus.  The bus was supposed to take 4 hours but an agonising 5 hours and 30 minutes later we arrived in Phnom Penh city.
A $2 and 10 minute tuk tuk [...]

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Ten Days in Cambodia

On Friday morning Ligita and I, accompanied by our two friends from Cambodia, flew out from Phu Quoc as planned and this time there were no hiccups like the ferry charade on Wednesday. We met many puzzled travelers who were also supposed to travel on the ferry two days previous and all were forced to [...]

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Siem Reap, Cambodia

Siem Reap has colonial and Chinese-style architecture in the Old French Quarter, and around the Old Market. In town, there are Apsara dance performances, craft shops, silk farms, rice-paddy countryside, fishing villages and a bird sanctuary near the Tonle Sap Lake. It is perhaps best known for its proximity to Angkor Wat.

Angkor Wat (Angkor temple) [...]

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