Angkor Hotel Phnom Penh

Several days this entry: At last, Cambodia. This trip really started in 1981 when Leslie and I began our work with Cambodian refugees - we were at it seven days a week, every waking minute when we were not working at our regular jobs. Cambodian refugees were our life from 1981-1986 - an astonishing & very difficult time - and the first time I understood the bedrock reality of God (when I realized I/myself could not possibly be doing what I was doing). Anyway, I am overwhelmed to be here n...

Here I am again, writing an entry just after saying that I probably wouldn't be able to. We left this morning at about 7am and took a taxi to the bus station. We caught the bus to Aranyaprathet seconds before it pulled away - what a break! We arrived at the border a little after noon and passed through immigration and visas without incident. As we made our way out of Thailand and into Cambodia, a man from a taxi company came over and sold us on his company. He offered us a taxi to Battambang ...

The first monument that one sees upon entering Phnom Penh is a metal sculpture of a handgun with its barrel twisted into a knot--a symbol for non-violence. I have seen that same monument at the landing beaches in Normandy as well. I understood DDay, but I had no understanding of the Khmer Rouge at all until after today. The Killing Fields are located on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. A large temple, about three stories tall, had skulls of all victims of the mass genocide stacked to the top. In ...

Took the Spanish blokes advice about avoiding the train for 30ringhit to the airport and took the skybus for 9 which was sound!Got the sky train monorail and then onto a bus direct for the airport for 2hours,but having told me it'd take ages was at the check in desk at Kuala Lumpur Airport for 11.30am and not flying till 3pm! Wasted the 3hours in the airport with no shops and nothing to do and eventually boarded the plane.Sat on the plane for half hour,when we get told to get off as there is ...

Cambodia summary Overall we didn't enjoy Cambodia as much as other countries we've been to, and in fact we both suffered from the doldrums a little bit. There were a few reasons, we think. There is definitely a palpable sense that the country and its people have been through something bad recently, a sort of underlying sadness, which rubs off on you a little bit. The population is fairly small so there isn't the crazy buzziness that other countries we've been to have had, just because there a...