Thailand doesn’t really do Christmas so everywhere was open which made it a very interesting day indeed!
In the Phuket Central Festival food hall they were selling Waitrose Christmas puddings, so for a bit of home from home I bought one of each for the total sum of 2000 Baht (£40). I felt my wallet haemorrhaging as I paid.
Siem Reap has a number of tourist attractions related to the war that ravaged Cambodia during the end of the 20th Century and the Tuktuk drivers will want to take you to all of them, ideally on the same day!
The Cambodian War Museum was built by Cambodia’s Ministry of National Defense and contains artifacts salvaged when the civil war ended in 1998. It is $5 to walk around it and a free guide is available.
After passing my PADI Open Water and Open Water Advanced, this weekend I also passed my PADI Rescue Diver course, taught by Dan from Phuket Dive Tours. The course covered the following:
I found this whilst searching for a book about the Cambodian temples and bought it to learn more about all the land mine victims I keep seeing in Siem Reap, busking.
The book is as described, a collection of notes Angelina made whilst visiting refugees in Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Pakistan, Cambodia, and Ecuador, visiting the refugees themselves, talking with them, learning about them and asking them what they want and need and how they can be helped.
Whilst Angkor Wat is the largest temple around Siem Reap, there are many others some of which in my opinion are better. So you want to take some time and see as many as possible else you’re doing yourself a great disservice.
No matter how you decide to view the temples, you’ll need to buy a temple pass to let you in the area. These passes get checked on the road as you enter the temple complex and additionally by a guard before you enter each temple, do not lose it!
I’ve now spent 3 months in Thailand and am visiting Siem Reap in Cambodia for a week, so it’s time for a bit of accountability!
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here we go:
I’ve lost 10 kg in the last 3 months, training at Tiger Muay Thai and Crossfit Phuket, eating properly, supplementing properly and not really drinking! Clothes that were previously too small, that I bought with me, now fit and I have a good routine going now. In another 6 months I should have easily met my goal.
I took Sedona Method classes with Maya Zack in Brighton a couple of years ago to see how the process would work on some of the stresses I was under at the time and found the experience really rewarding and the techniques I learned helpful for all manner of things, so decided to give the book a read.
In essence the Sedona Method simply involves asking yourself a series of questions about your feelings or whatever the situation is that you want to release along the lines of the following:
There’s not much to do on Soi Ta Aed, the road Tiger Muay Thai is on, other than train, eat and get massages so I’ve been escaping out to sea with the help of Phuket Dive Tours and its awesome owner Dave.
