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    Things We Found Along the Way: Makruk

    IN THIS: section, we’ll be bringing you music, films, recipes, games and other bits and pieces we find during our travels. This week, it’s makruk, the Thai version of chess. On the streets of Bangkok and pretty much every other town we visited, makruk was...

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    Video: Ping Pong Ka-Pow, Episode 4

    WE ENDED: up leaving Siem Reap aboard a narrow longboat, chugging our way patiently across the heart of Cambodia, gliding over the vast Tonle Sap lake and up the river to Battambang, in the fourth installment of the Ping Pong KaPow series. From what I...

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    Video: Ping Pong Ka-Pow, Episode 3

    YES AND: now we’re cooking with gas in the third installment of the Ping Pong Ka-Pow series, as Adam, Erin and I push forward, out of Phnom Penh and up into Siem Reap and the temples of Angkor. Okay, Siem Reap is tourist-y, to an...

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    Video: Ping Pong Ka-Pow, Episode 2

    THIS IS: the second of nineteen episodes of ‘Ping Pong Ka-Pow’, documenting the three-month voyage Adam, Erin and I took around Asia late in 2008. From the original blurb we posted with the video at the time: [This is the episode in which] we leave Thailand,...

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