Monday Memories – Student Stretches at Battambang Circus School

Student Stretches at Battambang Circus School. Phare Circus training, Battambang, Cambodia. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

In the latest edition of my reflections on photography series Monday Memories, a young student stretches at Battambang circus school in northwest Cambodia. Ouch. Over the last few months I’ve spent some time behind the scenes taking photographs of performers under the big top at Phare Cambodian Circus in Siem Reap, as well as at Phare … Read more

Price Check: a Siem Reap Shopping List

Price Check: a Siem Reap Shopping List. Angkor Beer, Siem Reap, Cambodia. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Having settled into Siem Reap where we’ve established a home, we’ve become familiar with what things cost in Cambodia and thought it was time to share a Siem Reap shopping list for our Price Check series, just in case you’re planning to settle in for a while when you venture here. In short: shopping here is inexpensive … Read more

Monday Memories – Traditional Shadow Puppet Show in Phnom Penh

Shadow Puppet Theatre, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Unlike the jazz gig I shot that I reflected upon in last week’s Monday Memories post, I was totally unprepared to photograph the traditional shadow puppet show in Phnom Penh that we checked out when we were recently in town. We had been travelling in Cambodia for a few very intensive days with Backyard Travel … Read more

A Year of Asian Cookbooks

A Year of Asian Cookbooks, Siem Reap, Cambodia. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

As we’ve been settling into our new home in Siem Reap, it’s been great to crack open the cookbooks that have been weighing us down – the ones that we didn’t leave back in Australia on our last visit. Having been hankering to get cooking for a while, and keen to begin working my way … Read more