At Tonlee Sap lake in Cambodia, apparently hope doesn’t float — except for those making a profit out of an exploitative form of orphanage tourism. What is the best policy approach to tackle the burgeoning orphanage ‘industry’ in countries like Cambodia?
Read a blog post on this issue for the Development Policy Centre here.
Gumbo, jazz, Po’ Boys and poverty. New Orleans sure is a tapestry.
I spent Christmas 2010 in the Big Easy and took a lot of photographs.
Also, see this blog post about how the Christmas quiet laid bare the problems with poverty in the city.
In 2009 and 2010, I spent several weeks in Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Melaka in Malaysia exploring the local food scene.
View an image slideshow here (opens in new window)
I compiled the original travel guide for Yogyakarta in Central Java for Southeast Asia’s most respected independent travel site, Travelfish, during mid-2010. Work included researching history and general information, writing detailed guides to attractions, hotel and guesthouse reviews and photography.
Aceh’s Tsunami Museum is full of possibility. Unfortunately, that’s about all it is full of at the moment. The walls designed for exhibitions remain bare and white. The top floor, which includes a rooftop garden that has been designed to be used as an escape point should another tsunami ever strike, remains closed to visitors.
Published in the Jakarta Globe newspaper on May 29, 2010.
The failings of Indonesia’s travel visa system is the one of the topics of conversation among travelers in the nation’s hostels and guesthouses.
Published in the Jakarta Globe newspaper on May 18, 2010.
Every nasi campur has a story. Six short reviews of restaurants and street stalls in Bali selling one of Indonesia’s classic dishes. Photos and story by Ashlee Betteridge. Published in the Jakarta Globe newspaper, April 2, 2010.
Travel story about the attractions in Pangandaran, West Java, where the tourism industry is recovering after a 2006 tsunami destroyed the town. Published in the Jakarta Globe on March 22, 2010. Story and photos by Ashlee Betteridge.
Parents making their teenagers kiss in public? A village in Bali does so once a year. Story about Bali’s omed-omedan kissing festival, published in the Jakarta Globe on March 20, 2010. Story and photos by Ashlee Betteridge.
Piece for Crikey’s Back in a Bit blog about Bali’s Nyepi day of silence. Published March 18, 2010.