‘Fine plateau shut in by lofty mountains’ was how William Cameron described the area in his discovery of the place as a British surveyor in the map-making of Perak/Pahang in 1885. It wasn’t until Sir George Maxwell visited the mountains in 1925, that led to the building of this hillRead More →
Rising in the morning in a foreign place is strange as the direction of the bathroom & the orientation of the bed somehow puzzled me for awhile before I realised I was indeed, in Cambodia! Year 2007 & not ZERO, the year Pol Pot had reverted to when he regressedRead More →
When I thought about doing something radical this year, I decided to embark on my annual expedition to ‘anywhere.’ Anywhere must be somewhere I hadn’t been before. And anywhere must be authentic. Anywhere must be affordable. So I searched everywhere to find anywhere to see. With last years spectacular RoyalRead More →
