Hello, my bf and I , late 30s, from Europe, are looking to book a trip to see the highlights of Vietnam and Cambodia. I found this company, Indochina tour, offering this trip :

https://www.indochinatour.com/multi-country/12-days-vietnam-cambodia-highlight-tour/ .

They have good reviews in trip advisor, but could not get anything else... Has anyone travelled with them recently?

Otherwise I read here that intrepid and G adventures are quite reputable for trips of that sort. I have never done guided trips like that, always planned my own itinerary, but for personal reasons couldn't do it, until now and we want to go in may!

We haven't been in SE Asia before. I would like not a very big group and also free time to explore myself as I want to try and experience stuff on my own. Especially food! Any other tips are welcomed.

Tia

Are there any words that are the same in these 3 languages or similiar?

So I was reading this book by Arundhati Roy where a character nicknamed 'Baby' was introduced.

That sparked my curiosity and got me wondering why it's a common practice in South Asia to call people baby; I personally know someone who's called by the same nickname.

I mean giving people nicknames is a common practice in many countries including South Asia which can range from just shortening the name to harbouring an attribute of the person in unhinged nicknames.

Considering being exposed to English language from pre-partition till date why is it still a fairly common nickname, I mean Guddu, Bibi, Mian etc make sense bec they're from the same language.

Ig I just wanna learn the origin and history of this practice. I'm down for discussion bec I have an exam and I don't feel like studying. Plus, I'm hyperfixating on this topic and psychoanalyzing it for some reason.

Guys....so I've been pretending to be asleep for the past 10 days and everytime my brother comes and takes advantage of me. If you know what i mean. But I KINDA like it..what should I do????

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