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A Lesson In Laid-Back Travel On Cambodia’s Mekong Discovery Trail

Matt Stabile — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 22:00:33 +0000

I’m a great planner — an aspect of my personality so ingrained that it rarely faded during 10 months on the road. Even removed as I was from the rigours of Western life, away from the myriad rules and regulations that simply don’t apply in other parts of the world, [...]

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Koh Rong: Get There Quick Before . . .

Matt Stabile — Fri, 11 May 2012 17:01:13 +0000

Unspoiled, turquoise-green, powder-white beaches, inexpensive . . . You’ve heard these adjectives before when describing beaches in Southeast Asia, right? However, they’re usually followed up with such words as: full-moon party, MDMA, overcrowded, touristy. Thus is the result of decades-worth of word-of-mouth recommendations for islands such as Koh Phangan, Koh [...]

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Don’t Leave Cambodia Without Visiting Battambang

Matt Stabile — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:24:07 +0000

Battambang, Cambodia’s second-largest city, is unfortunately overlooked by many travelers to the country. Given Battambang’s location about 5 hours west of Siem Reap, most people simply decide to head east instead, continuing on to Phnom Penh and then Vietnam (given the animosity between Thailand and Cambodia, traveling overland the other direction [...]

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7 Tips For Travel In Southeast Asia

Matt Stabile — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:09:59 +0000

Southeast Asia is probably the best place in the world for your first extended backpacking trip. The food is delicious, the locals friendly, the beaches extraordinary, the accommodations well-established and the sites varied and unforgettable. You’re likely to return home with plenty of fond memories and incredible photos of Southeast [...]

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An Unforgettable Tour Through Southeast Asia [Photo Essay]

Matt Stabile — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:32:27 +0000

GoMadNomad.com founder and friend of our site Stephen Bugno spent a good part of this year traveling through Southeast Asia as part of his nomadic wanderings. To try to encapsulate such a trip in 10 or 11 pictures would be futile, but I asked Stephen if I could share with [...]

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Getting Off That Darned Beaten Path In Cambodia

Matt Stabile — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:21:53 +0000

With prices dropping in the fall and the rainy season letting up in November, now is the time of year travelers start booking those trips to Southeast Asia. And just in time for pre-trip planning, Lonely Planet and CNN both came out with articles on getting off the proverbial beaten [...]

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Top 10 Tips For Visiting Angkor

Matt Stabile — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:34:23 +0000

Visiting the city of Siem Reap and the surrounding temple complex known as Angkor is an unforgettable experience and a requisite stop for any trip to Cambodia. The sheer size and options available in the area can be overwhelming, but try these 10 tips to make the most of your [...]

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Vietnam By Bike: The Greatest Trip On Earth

Jon Wick — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:22:53 +0000

Let’s pretend for a moment that I’m a jacked-up, grease-loving, motorhead that feels at home in leather pants. I would boast of my vehicular chariot’s duel exhausts, 454 “ponies under the hood,” and chrome-plated deely-bops. I’d even have the Kia logo tattooed on my right forearm. Also, I can get [...]

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Images Of Cambodia

Matt Stabile — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:00:20 +0000

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SE Asia Trip Dispatch: Part Four (Angkor Wat)

Matt Stabile — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 04:40:46 +0000

To say that the temples at Angkor are spectacular is like saying that France has good food: no need to state the obvious. After a 12-hour bus ride through the paddy fields and flood plains along the Tonle Sap lake in central Cambodia, I arrived late in Siem Reap. Expecting [...]

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