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Angkor Temples – Kbal Spean and Banteay Srei
- Aperture: f/4
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/500 s
- Focal Length: 58mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 650D
Today we kicked off the Nathan Horton Photography tour with a visit to a couple of temples in the Angkor area – Banteay Srei, and Kbal Spean. We headed off at 7:30 and got our week pass to the Angkor Temple complex (this costs $40 and is a photo-id which is required to enter the…
Cambodia Day 2 – A Day in the Life
- Aperture: f/4
- ISO: 200
- Shutter Speed: 1/400 s
- Focal Length: 24mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 650D
I spent much of today with a local Khmer family at Kompheim (Ladybug) Village about 20km out of Siem Reap. It was part of a A Day in the Life – Village Tour run by Beyond Unique Escapes, and provided a fascinating insight into the day to day activities and subsistence farming lifestyle of a…
Day 1 – Quad Adventure Cambodia
- Aperture: f/4
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/60 s
- Focal Length: 24mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 650D
I absolutely LOVED it !!!! I pre-booked this tour and was picked up from my hotel in a Tuk-tuk (my first experience). The sunset tour is very popular – there were over twenty on this particular day, but the tour is split up into smaller groups – each led by a guide. Our guide was…
Cambodia – Brisbane to Siem Reap
- Aperture: f/4
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/2000 s
- Focal Length: 24mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 650D
Left Brisbane last night at 10:50 and endured a long and uncomfortable 7 hrs flight (Singapore Airlines) to Singapore. We left late, and arrived early, and I did manage an hour or so nap, but I was pretty happy to get out at the end of the flight. I had a 3hr stopover in Singapore…
Day 10 – Christchurch / Akaroa
Drove to the Christchurch city centre this morning for a look around – very pretty – and then to check out Paintball – which was unfortunately closed (much to Jamies disgust). We then drove the 76km to Akaroa – a little town south east of Christchurch which is built on a bay which is part…
Day 9 – Wanaka to Christchurch
Planned today to just start driving towards Christchurch – stopping along the way, and see how far we got. I expected to get no further than Fairlie – but, even with 3 or 4 stops, we found ourselves there at 12:30 – so decided to keep going onto Chrstchurch – another couple of hours. Considered…
Day 8 Queenstown to Wanaka
Just a short drive to Wanaka today (70ish Km) so we had a bit of a lie in (although the clocks changed to daylight saving so we lost an hour overnight too) – had bacon, eggs & frenvh toast to breakfast, and headed up over the Cardrona Pass – which still had a fair amiunt…
Day 7 – Queenstown
Very early start today – 6:30 for our full day Dart River Funyak Safari – a 1.5hr Jet boat ride, followed by a few hours kayaking safari. However, the rain started in earnest at 0500 and was VERY cold, so I was a bit concerned that it would be a cold, wet, miserable day. As…
Day 6 – Te Anau to Queenstown
Planned to have a relatively lazy day today, with a short drive (170k) to Queenstown. We had a 7:30 start and stopped along the way again for breakfast and at a couple of other places for a look (e.g. Devils Staircase – where Rory nearly got blown off a cliff). Arrived in Queenstown around 11:00…
Day 5 – Doubtful Sound
We had a late start this morning… the tour didn’t leave until 10:30 so had the luxury of a lie in (until 8:00 anyway) and pancakes for breakfast… yum. There was a whole crowd of us picked up from Top 10 – mostly aussies – and for that matter mostly QLDers (which is not that…