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Photos from Cambodia & our love for bandanas
By John | September 20, 2008
Hi all! I know Jeni probably can’t believe her eyes, but I’ve actually posted the photos from our trip to Cambodia! 🙂
Because we took 400 or so photos, I only uploaded some of the better ones or the ones that helped show the chronology or the story of our trip. Plus, I’m sure you’d all rather look at 89 photos than 437!
I also think it’s important and most certainly a Good Thing(TM) to share content with the world whenever possible. Therefore, I’ve decided to setup a plugin that will allow my Flickr photo sets to show up on our Photos page. We’ll be upating our Photos page on an ongoing basis (read: when we damn well feel like it).
However if Flickr is being slow (like it can be when you’re in Singapore) or if you’re just old-fashioned and think social networking/media/commons sites are only for teenagers and Communists, then please feel free to view our photos on a simple local page over here.
And, last but not least, please allow me to address the questions we’ve been getting on our use of bandanas whilst in Cambodia (yeah, I used “whilst” – wanna fight about it?). Bandanas are totally awesome for both women’s rights campaign posters and trekking in the jungles of Cambodia.
Seriously.
Jeni and I each bought an Ex Officio Insect Shield bandana for the trip and it was the most useful accessory evars. First of all, the jungles in Cambodia are hotter than in Singapore and almost as humid, so you constantly sweat, especially when you’re walking around historical temples all day and climbing stairs made for ancient dudes with size 6 feet. The bandana makes a great sweat rag that’s always out of your way (around your neck) and it only takes a second to wipe the sweat off your brow.
Second, when your main form of transport is an open-air tuk tuk, you’re going to get all kinds of dust, exhaust and other junk flying at your face — did I mention that many of Cambodia’s roads are dirt? So yeah, having a bandana to block all the dust and stuff is a very nice thing to have.
Oh, last but not least, bandanas allow you to become a forest ninja:
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