The Giant Puppet Project Parade Snakes Through Siem Reap

Giant Puppet Project, Siem Reap, Cambodia. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Giant Puppet Project Parade snakes through Siem Reap on a Saturday night each February. If you’re heading to Cambodia in 2017 try to time your trip to coincide with this wonderful event. It’s a fun-filled night that’s made for families with kids. Getting along to local festivals and events, whether as an observer or participant, is a wonderful way to get … Read more

Why You Should Avoid Orphanage Visits in Cambodia and Everywhere

Tara Winkler, founder and managing director of the Cambodian Children's Trust (CCT) explains why you should avoid orphanage visits in Cambodia. Photographed at Jaan Bai restaurant, Battambang. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Why you should avoid orphanage visits in Cambodia is a no brainer as far as we’re concerned. Orphanage tourism is a thing and it’s a big corrupt business that’s fuelled by tourism and tourists who are under the misapprehension they’re doing good by visiting orphanages. They’re not and here’s why. As we waited at Siem … Read more

Behind the Scenes at Jaan Bai Restaurant in Battambang

Behind the Scenes at Jaan Bai Restaurant in Battambang. Jaan Bai, Battambang, Cambodia. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

In October 2013, we went behind the scenes at Jaan Bai restaurant in Battambang to cover the opening of the Cambodian Children’s Trust’s new social enterprise hospitality training restaurant. We spent a lot of time in the kitchen. Supported by Australians Chef David Thompson of Nahm Bangkok and restaurateur John Fink of Quay restaurant in Sydney, a … Read more

Last Minute Christmas Present Ideas – Gifts That Give

Last Minute Christmas Present Ideas – Gifts That Give. Monkey at Diani Beach, Kenya. Copyright © 2023 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

It’s nice to go shopping and buy presents for friends and family, have them open them and go “wow!” and all the rest, but that’s hard when you’re overseas at Christmas and away from loved ones and need to do your Christmas shopping online. Here’s our tips to finding gifts that give. These days there’s an … Read more

Making Merit En Masse: Giving Alms to 12,600 Monks in Bangkok

Making Merit En Masse: Giving Alms to 12,600 Monks in Bangkok on Visakha Bucha Day. Copyright © 2023 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Shades of saffron, mustard and tangerine stretched as far as our eyes could see – the robes of some 12,600 Buddhist monks from southern Thailand who travelled by bus to Bangkok to attend the mass alms giving to commemorate Visakha Bucha Day*. The sun may still have been low in the sky when we got … Read more