the pleasures of thailand & cambodia and the horrors of a tsunami

This travelogue will first take you through the hectic and exciting streets of Bangkok. From there you will travel into Siem Reap, Cambodia to walk the mystical ruins of Angkor Wat and to experience the endearing Khmer culture. Flying back into Thailand, you will travel from Chiang Mai into the magical hills of the Golden Triangle, feeding elephants, driving the isolated hills of this former (?) opium-producing corner of the world, and slipping briefly into Myanmar and Laos. Finally, after of few days of bliss in lovely southern Thailand, near Phuket, you will be swept into the horrors of the shocking tragedy of the infamous 2004 tsunami, a disaster that barely spares the author and his wife, but in a just a few hours’ time takes the lives of a quarter of a million others.