Tag Archives: history
A Nile Cruise Through Time
Posted on 10. Nov, 2011 by Guest Poster.
By the time I arrived in Aswan in January 2011, I was exhausted. My week in Cairo had left me jumpy and with a bad case of ‘Mummy Tummy.’ I obviously didn’t know it at the time, but the Tahir Square protest would happen in less than two weeks and talk of revolution was already [...]
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Hanging out at the Hanoi Hilton
Posted on 17. Jul, 2011 by Steph.
When I first arrived in Saigon I was a bit naïve. I wrote about the remarkably one-sided American War Museum and how infuriating and weird it was to be there as an American. By the time I made it up to Hanoi, 4 weeks later, I was a bit more grounded. After meeting so many people [...]
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The Museum of Suffering
Posted on 29. Mar, 2011 by Steph.
Traveling in South East Asia can be a lot of things: fun, beautiful, delicious. But sometimes, it can also be a very dark place. The latter half of the twentieth century was not so kind to mainland South East Asia, and it’s impossible to ignore the repercussions of this. Over the past few months I’ve [...]
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Laos’ Violent Hidden History Part 2
Posted on 17. Mar, 2011 by Steph.
It’s one thing to learn about history, it’s another thing to see a ticking time bomb staring you in the face. This is what I learned last weekend in Phonsavan, Laos. To preface this, please check out my post last week about the United State’s “Secret War” against Laos, wherein almost 2 million pounds of [...]
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Laos’ Violent Hidden History
Posted on 08. Mar, 2011 by Steph.
Quick, do you know which country has had the most bombs dropped on them in history? It’s not Germany, or England. It’s not Vietnam, although that’s a pretty reasonable guess. The most bombed country of all time, is Laos. Small, quiet, unassuming Laos, wedged between Thailand and Vietnam, has had almost as many bombs dropped [...]
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Being the Bad Guy at the War Remnants Museum
Posted on 02. Feb, 2011 by Steph.
Vietnam! Whenever I am about to visit a new country I make a mental inventory of the things that I associate with that place. When I think of Vietnam I think of rice paddies, spring rolls and war. War is probably the biggest thing that most of the western world associates with Vietnam. Although I [...]
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