Despite being an island mostly filled with fish-hugger conservationists, there was a fair amount of competition on Pulau Balak. At the start there was a big challenge to learn to identify fish, coral, and slimey spineless things, with tests. Some of the volunteers were straight out of their A-Levels and were still on a learning […]
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Scream “Hellor Meester!” back to everyone who screeches it at you Ignore the tooting of passing ‘Mr Jolly Lives Next Door’ microbuses touting for taxi trade Ask insane beggars for money to see how they like it Consider re-reading Neil Cross’s excellent ‘Mr. Inbetween’ for a third time, or just skip to the violent bits
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Apparently you can hire rocket launchers to vaporise cows in Cambodia. Anyone up for a bit of burger making? Ever feel like blowing up a cow? Well, in the Phkor Lan Club shooting range, you can. You could shoot AK47s (which Mike actually did) for US$20, or a rocket launcher for US $200. For an
