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What is it about the girls in Phnom Penh?
It's my first full day in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. While having breakfast, I read several free newspapers and online news web portals for ex-pats who live here. The same topic keeps coming up over and over: sex. In one newspaper supplement, one of the lead stories is by an ex-pat, she doesn't say where she's from, who claims the heat of the tropics makes people engage in more ...
An atrocity that still lingers
... beatings for hours, water boarding, pulling finger and toenails off with pliers among other horrific things such as eating their own excrement off the floor. A total of approximately 20,000 men, women and children were tortured and/or killed here - none of whom had done anything wrong. From this prison, 'prisoners' were taken at random at nighttime to The Killing Field we visited earlier in the day. The hundreds of photographs (mugshots) ...
Kambodschas dunkle Seite. Und noch mehr Obama.
... Kambodschas und den Roten Khmer beschäftigen und organisierten uns so ein hostelinternes Tuk-Tuk. Mit der Tuk-Tuk-Mafia in unserer Straße hatten wir es uns offenbar bereits verscherzt – schon gestern wurden wir von einem der Fahrer beleidigt, weil wir uns „nur“ ein Gästehaus und kein Hotel leisten können (und natürlich nicht bei ihm mitfahren wollen). Heute machte er, als wir auf dem Rückweg vorbeifuhren, nur eine vielsagende Maschinenpistolengeste – so macht ...
The Killing Fields
... br> Not really knowing what to expect from Cambodia we were pleasantly surprised. Having come from a country so heavily populated by people riding motorbikes it was a bit of a shock to see so many cars, and expensive cars at that! There were Range Rovers and Lexus' everywhere. We had read that it was a country of extremes in terms of wealth, and it certainly was. Trudging along beside the men in their big cars (not being sexist we just hardly saw women drivers) were ...
Angkor Wat & being 'templed out'.
... is Ta Phrom, a temple which has been displaced by the jungle so much that large trees have now displaced the ruins own building foundations, making the ruins and the trees as one...a great example of how nature can and does reclaim anything which people can build (well, with the exception of plastic bags). After pretty much 2 solid days of visiting temple after temple, ruin after ruin, I think we deserve to update our Facebook status to "templed ...
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