by Mark | Feb 12, 2019 | Abkhazia, Armenia, Cambodia, Croatia, Georgia, Romania, Taiwan, Ukraine, Vietnam |
Urban exploration at some of the world’s forsaken swimming pools Of all the derelict places we find, swimming pools have to be one of the most alluring. It’s not always that easy to visualise what an abandoned location would have been like before it became...
by Kirsty | Nov 18, 2018 | Cambodia, Laos, Thailand |
Other Angkorian Temples in Southeast Asia apart from Angkor Wat Any mention of Angkorian temples usually conjures up images of Angkor Wat and the other magnificent temples found at Cambodia’s Angkor Complex which lays on the outskirts of Siem Reap. But in the period...
by Mark | Sep 2, 2018 | Off the Beaten Path, Thailand |
Getting Off-the-Beaten-Path in Thailand If you arrive into the small border town of Ranong (*) by bus you won’t fail to miss this skeleton of a building that looms down over National Highway Route 4 linking Bangkok with the country’s deep south. (*) Ranong is a short...
by Mark | Aug 28, 2018 | Laos |
Although often compared, the southern Lao city of Savannakhet is no Luang Prabang. There is plenty of French colonial-era architecture in the old part of town and, like Luang Prabang, the city is located on the Mekong River but that’s where the similarities end....
by Mark | Aug 15, 2018 | Off the Beaten Path, Thailand |
Getting Off-the-Beaten-Path in Thailand There isn’t a lot to do in the southern Thai town of Chumphon. For travellers, it is predominately a transit town/jumping off point for the diving Mecca of Koh Tao. We came across these disused railway cars while wandering...
by Mark | Jul 11, 2018 | Thailand |
This former female-only penitentiary is located right in the heart of Chiang Mai’s old town. It’s easily missed and I suspect that, on a daily basis, dozens, if not hundreds of tourists (including us, in the past) have unwittingly walked past it en route to some of...
