This December Crystal’s sister, Emily, is here visiting us in Cambodia. Last week we took her up to Siem Reap province and while we were there we visited the Cambodia Elephant Sanctuary. This is the smaller of the two Elephant sanctuaries in Siem Reap. Both sanctuaries are for rescued elephants who were used for labor…
Tag: Wildlife
Bangkok’s Sanam Rat park
After our visit to the Cambodian Embassy to submit Caleb’s Visa application we visited the Sanam Rat park in Bangkok, Thailand. It’s a large park with a lot to see including ponds and a small lake, fountains, a beautiful conference pavilion, botanical gardens, and water monitor lizards. Charlotte was – as aways – thrilled just…
Big Bad Beetle
This morning I found a delightful rhinoceros beetle in our courtyard that must have been knocked down from it’s perch by the heavy winds and rain caused by Typhoon Noru last night. Well, I shouldn’t say delightful because this pest is one of the critters that’s been infesting our poor coconut palm! The Coconut Rhinoceros…
Our Avian visitors
This morning we had a call scheduled with “Uncle” Lance and as we were about to start the video chat there was a whoosh from our coconut tree. Of course we thought back to our simian visitors a few months ago and rushed to close the doors upstairs…but there we saw that our visitors were…