the habberjams

The next temple we visited, after some lunch and a rest, was The Bayon famous for its faces which look down on you from all directions as you wander around. This again was built by Jayavarman VII and is another Buddhist temple. Around the walls on the lower leavel are bas-releif depictions of scenes from [...]

April and May have lots of public holidays here in Thailand:April 6, 13, 14 & 19May 1, 5 & 12.Absolutely Fabulous.In April we went back to the UK for 2 weeks, from 9 – 22, for the Easter period. We spent most of this 2 weeks with Trish’s parents, and one night over in Yorkshire [...]

Cambodia, that name alone for me, summons up images of death and destruction, skulls lying in fields of mud, brutality born of ignorance and the name of an unseen dictator that sounds like a child’s name for a pet parrot. These images are from the past, today Cambodia is trying to catch up with the [...]