Ruined Cities Tropical Islands

Going off-the-beaten-track half way round the World with people you don’t know, food you’ve never tried before and what appear to be extreme weather conditions. What can possibly go wrong?

A few tips on how to get the best out of your small group tour to Southeast Asia

Best Thai Islands 2 Best Thai Islands 1 covered the kingdom’s west, Andaman, coast all the way from the Malaysian border in the far south past Trang, Krabi and Phang Nga to Ranong Province opposite Myanmar in the far north. Beyond Ranong are the estimated 800 plus islands of the vast Mergui Archipelago but fortunately they’re beyond the scope of…

Capital Cities of Cambodia Off the top of our heads we’ve come up with no less than 11 different capital cities of Cambodia over the course of some 1500 years – although we may well have overlooked another one or two – while several of these sites have been the capital on more than one separate occasion. Many of the…

Favourite Cambodian Museums As a relatively small country with a small, albeit rapidly growing, population Cambodia can’t compete in number of museums with its larger neighbours Thailand and Vietnam (see our recent Vietnam museums post), but it does make up for quantity with quality and our favourite Cambodian museums list includes a clutch of top notch sites, one of which…

Cambodian World Heritage Site As of July 2025, UNESCO has inscribed a 5th Cambodian World Heritage Site to their list with the creation of a Cambodian Memorial Sites entry. The listing combines three separate sites: Choeung Ek – more commonly known to visitors as the Killing Fields, Tuol Sleng or S21 – the Genocide Museum, plus a third site simply…

Our Cambodia and Thailand Family tour; Ruined Cities and Tropical Islands

Descriptions and photographs of some of the spectacular national parks featured on our various Thailand small group tours

Private tours If you’re considering a family tour or a private tour to Southeast Asia, then the first decision is whether to choose an off-the-shelf or a tailor-made itinerary. Any of our published small group tours are available as private options, while our family tours page features a selection of suggested itineraries. All of the latter are tried and trusted,…

The huge walled and moated city of Angkor Thom was the capital of the Khmer empire from the 10th to 14th centuries

Battambang Cottage Industries An update and some fresh photos of an earlier post describing a tour of some of the traditional Battambang cottage industries included on our tuk-tuk tour of Ek Phnom District in Western Cambodia. The morning tour kicks off with a look at a few of Battambang City’s sites, including some examples of French-period architecture, the old governor’s…

A morning temple hunting expedition around Siem Reap Province, Cambodia