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Marissa Carruthers

Marissa inherited her love of travel from her parents, who would entertain her as a child with exotic tales of their adventures across the globe. Her first solo leap into foreign lands was an Inter-railing trip across Europe and North Africa during her first summer at university and, despite two muggings, several dices with death and a terrifying encounter with the monkey mafia, she was hooked. Has made Southeast Asia her home.
Vespa Adventures Phnom Penh

Vespa Adventures Phnom Penh

 Long-term expat Marissa Carruthers plays tourist for the evening and joins Vespa Adventures Phnom Penh for a trip around the Cambodian capital…

Things to Do in Siem Reap Avoiding Angkor

Things to Do in Siem Reap Avoiding Angkor

The town may be synonymous with Angkor Wat – the world’s largest religious structure – but there are plenty of things to do in Siem Reap other than visiting temples…

Cambodia Tourism Set to Soar

Cambodia Tourism Set to Soar

Cambodia tourism industry has evolved in leaps and bounds in the last few decades. As it becomes an increasingly important economic pillar for the Kingdom, Marissa Carruthers looks at the…

Irrawaddy Dolphin, Ecotourism in Kratie

Irrawaddy Dolphin, Ecotourism in Kratie

One of the last homes for the much endangered Irrawaddy dolphin, Kratie also offers a genuine slice of rural Cambodia, as Marissa Carruthers discovers…

Goat Herding in the Canaries

Goat Herding in the Canaries

Marissa Carruthers takes an impromptu goat herding trip during an island-hopping tour of the Canaries. The bar was nestled on the corner of a quaint cobbled street in southwest Fuerteventura…

Food Tours in Southeast Asia

Food Tours in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is a dream destination for foodies, boasting a kaleidoscope of flavours, cooking techniques and unique dishes just waiting for tourists to try. Marissa Carruthers looks at how food…

The Lost Waterways of Kerala

The Lost Waterways of Kerala

With jet black hair that defies her age slicked back in a tight bun, the woman wrapped in a midnight blue sari smacks her lips over her gums. Pointing curiously…

Lost in the Cardamom Mountains

Lost in the Cardamom Mountains

The sturdy truck we have spent the last four-and-a-half hours in jerks to a halt on a muddy patch of grass at the edge of dense jungle. The torrential rain…

City Break: Singapore

City Break: Singapore

The ride from Changi International airport always leaves me dazzled. My eyes lap up the tree-lined, functional roads with rows of colourful, manicured flowerbeds serving as a barrier to oncoming…

Road to Mandalay by Motodup

Road to Mandalay by Motodup

On the road to Mandalay there are no strangers just friends we have yet to meet. Certainly this is an epithet shared by my motodop driver for the day, Htoo…

Things to Do in Hanoi in 48 Hours

Things to Do in Hanoi in 48 Hours

From drinking coffee to wandering around Hien Kien Lake and the Old Quarter, and sampling some bia hoi, Marissa Carruthers discovers there are plenty of things to do in Hanoi…

Cambodia’s Fantasy Islands

Cambodia’s Fantasy Islands

There’s a loud splash as I jump from the side of our slender wooden fishing boat into the crystal clear turquoise waters. My feet sink into the soft sand that…