MICHAEL BATSON

Travel Writer

Vietnam

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Cambodia

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Other

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Travel Writing

Cambodia

Cambodian taxis are legendary.

Siem Reap - Cambodia

Sihanoukville - Ravaged by War

Phnom Penh - Genocide Museum

Down and out in Koh Kong, Cambodia

Many become ESL teachers for the value added satisfaction the job brings.

Western Technology

Poipet: On The Road To Cambodia

The Shooting Range

Phnom Penh: City of Four Faces

Vietnam

Presidents of the former South Vietnam once lived in a palace named after the King of Cambodia ...

Nha Trang sits in a stunning setting backed by a high range...

Ho Chi Minh is revered in Vietnam...

Ha Noi is awash with hotel rooms.

Bus travel in Vietnam is well organised...

America is obsessed...

Vietnam is one long beach.

Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City

Other

Tasmania was the closest thing to a totalitarian state as ever existed in the British Empire

Koh Samed is the closest resort island to Bangkok

Blighted by French colonial relics and masses of unexploded ordnance...

Many back packers in Thailand are lazy...

Luang Prabang is a World Heritage Site, once capital of the ancient Kingdom of the Elephants.

Koreans are conservative, family orientated and fiercely proud of their long history and culture ...

Korea has modernized at an astonishing rate ...

Kalgoorlie in Western Australia can be a rough town.

Japanese rule in Korea was brutal and repressive.

Korea is the last vestige of the Cold War furthest from America

In 1953, the Koreans paused for breath in their war of attrition

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