John
Lancaster's Images
2003 Updates
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John Lancaster
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John Lancaster
1st August, 2001
1st June, 2003 - I am now adding a lot lot more photographs and updating my homepage.
8th October, 2003 - Photos taken in England in the summer of 2003 added.
21st January, 2004 - More photos of Cambodia including Koh Sdech island and Sihanoukville.
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Mondulkiri (Updated 1st June, 2003) |
Mondulkiri is about 10 hours from Pnom Penh in a 4WD in the dry season near the Vietnam border, and worth the journey. Lots of hilltribe people live in this area. At Sen Monorom, the main town but still a village, I recommend the Pich Kiri Guest House. I would like to express my thanks to BLAIR, a Canadian, who took me around on his motorbike. That was a great help as it was impossible to rent a decent bike when I was there. |
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Sihanoukville 2003 cd 1 (Updated 1st June, 2003) |
Sihanoukville is the largest port in Cambodia and is also famous for its beaches. |
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An Island (Updated 1st June, 2003) |
There were only two Europeans on this island. If you can find it and somewhere to stay on it, have a great time. |
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Kampot and Kep (Updated 1st June, 2003) |
Kampot and Kep. These must both have seen better times, far worse times , too. There is, however, an undeniable charm in the dilapidated colonial architecture. |
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Koh Kong- Sihanoukville Dec 2003 (Updated 21st Jan, 2004) |
Photographs taken from the boat between Koh Kong and Sihanoukville. |
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Koh Sdech Dec 2003 (Updated 21st Jan, 2004) |
Koh Sdech island. This island is not yet popular with tourists. When I stopped there on the way to Sihanoukville, I was the only foreigner apart from Thais on the island. On the way back there were two as I took a Japanese friend there. If you need information about the island and where to stay, please send me an email, and I will tell you where to stay and give you directions. There are some new bungalows on the island and some more are being built. The people on this island are extremely friendly and some speak English. |
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Children on Koh Sdech Dec 2003 (Updated 21st Jan, 2004) |
Children on Koh Sdech. |
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Sunsets on Koh Sdech Dec 2003 (Updated 21st Jan, 2004) |
Sunsets on Koh Sdech island. |
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Koh Smach Dec 2003 (Updated 21st Jan, 2004) |
Koh Smach island. I was lucky enough to meet a local English teacher. One day he and his friends from the local church invited a Japanese friend and I to go to a picnic on Koh Smach. On the island the boatman, who fell into the sea as soon as he pushed off from the jetty, disappeared then came back with a long fishing net. We then dragged it along the bay and caught some flying fish (see first photograph, which we barbecued. |
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Sihanoukville Dec 2003 (Updated 21st Jan, 2004) |
More photographs of Sihanoukville. |
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Kbal Chay (Updated 21st Jan, 2004) |
Kbal Chay is a waterfall which is well worth a visit. It is a short motorbike ride from Sihanoukville. |
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Blue Mountain Sihanoukville Dec 2003 (Updated 21st Jan, 2004) |
Blue Mountain is an infamous part of Sihanoukville. Although as you may guess from the photographs, you can get a lot more than just a beer. However, you are quite welcome to have a beer and a chat, and if you have the right attitude, you can take some photos. I bought a girl a drink and she was quite happy to let me take her photograph It seems as if most of the girls in this area are Vietnamese. |
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Chicken Village Sihanoukville Dec 2003 (Updated 21st Jan, 2004) |
Chicken Village is another seedy part of Sihanoukville. The girls here are nearly all Cambodian. The area is much more spread out than Blue Mountain and consists of many smaller places. I first came across this area a year ago on a previous visit to Sihanoukville when I was riding a bike to a disco. Some girls stood in the road to stop me and offer their services, although they withdrew their offers when they realised there was a girl on the back of the bike. Many people here were friendly and quite willing to have their photos taken, the only exceptions being Vietnamese establishments that made it quite clear that they did not want photographs taken. |
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Further Reading Andy Brouwer's Cambodia Tales |
Probably the best site for information on Cambodia. Andy Brouwer has been a regular visitor to Cambodia since 1994. |
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Further Reading Tales of Asia |
An excellent site with lots of useful information on Cambodia (and other places including a recent trip to Afghanistan.) |
England
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Bath (Updated 8th October, 2003) |
Bath is named after its Roman Baths. When I was there, I was told that they would reopen soon. They could possibly have reopened by now. Archtecturally, Bath is outstanding. This is one of the reasons it is so popular with tourists. |
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Lacock (Updated 8th October, 2003) |
Lacock is an extraordinarily beautiful National Trust village. I discovered it, by chance, many years ago. I was surprised at how much it had changed since I had last been there. It has become a popular tourist destination, mainly as a result of the films that have been made there. Photographers will be interested to know that Lacock Abbey was the home of William Henry Fox Talbot, one of the founding fathers of photography, who invented the negative. I met the lady in the first two photographs when a friend and I entered a pub. She persuaded me to try the local parsnip wine, which was excellent. Later she told us some of the more recent history of Lacock. She has appeared in many of the films and TV programes made there including Harry Potter. |
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London (Updated 8th October, 2003) |
London in the sunshine. I could not believe my luck. |
THAILAND
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Lam Morrison and The Blues Factory (Updated July 2003) |
Lam Morrison is a famous Thai rock and roll musician. He can be found at his bar at the corner of Pattaya 2 Rd and Beach Rd Soi 1 or at the Blues Factory, which has live bands every night. The Blues Factory is between the night market and the Marine Disco (Updated July 2003) |
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Old homepage (Updated July 1999) |
This will take you to my old homepage. Photographs of Thailand including the Koh Chang National Park and the North West. |