Ramon Stoppelenburg is an award-winning travel writer and photographer based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

He travels a lot, writes travel stories and gets beautiful photographs published, while in the meantime he is the tour operator for Mt. Kilimanjaro climbs and a European food and cooking trip, marketing manager of an improv comedy show and freelance marketing consultant.

It all started with becoming an international renown world traveler. When he is not traveling, he is a jack of all trades. Practical, professional and pro-active he proves his value -for example- in creative marketing and consult businesses and people in how to sell their products better.

He organizes expeditions to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and safari’s in Tanzania and has recently set up an unforgettable journey through Europe with the European Cooking Trip. He is also the marketing agent for the amazing Amsterdam improv comedy show named The Gerry & Marty Show.

In his spare time he is a commercial model and a speaker about serial entrepreneurship, social media and how to get more (joy) out of your life and business. On the side of that he’s also a certified stress relief massage therapist and life coach for local clients in Cambodia.

Keep track of things that keeps him occupied and more on this personal blog and on Facebook. Or simply subscribe to this blog to stay up-to-date on his activities.

The media about Ramon Stoppelenburg

“Bloomin scroungers, all of em! Go get yourself a proper job and be miserable and parochial like the rest of us!”
– The Register.co.uk, UK

“He has become a mascot for living the impossible dream, laughing in the face of caution and conformity, embodying the spirit of reckless adventure that most people year for… when the geyser’s fixed and the kids are older and the mortgage is paid”
– The Dispatch, South Africa

“Ramon Stoppelenburg has become one of the first true internet celebrities”
- Evening Herald, Ireland

“Web personality of the year 2001: this year’s web eccentric is not some unfortunate and unwitting nutter, but a personable 24-year-old Dutch media student”
– The Sunday Times, United Kingdom

“These are classic travel stories from a modern time”
– globetrotter and travel writer Mike Pugh, Worldhum.com

“It’s the flying Dutchman!”
– The Citizen, South Africa

“One guy from Chicago said he could stay as long as his wife didn’t object. And if she did, hell, he’d pay for a hotel.”
– Wired.com, USA

“Have website, will travel”
– Daily Mirror, UK

“The whole world knows our Ramon Stoppelenburg”
– Het Parool, Amsterdam

“Critics would call him a freeloader but fans call him a entrepreneur”
– The Courier Mail, Australia