Travel Blog Photos from Phnom (22,172)
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... victims from crying when they were whipped. Lastly we visited the Royal Palace with the Silver Pagoda. It's hard to understand how Cambodia can be home to such decadence, when many live in relative poverty, but that's the way it is, the palace is ...
... such acts of depravity in the future. My two cents. After that uplifting afternoon, we decided it was high time to bid Cambodia farewell. I feel like I can cross that off my list of places to go within this lifetime. A beautiful country, but the entire ...
... roads were rather dusty and bumpy, but in reasonable repair, threading through the flat rural landscapes where most of Cambodia's population make a subsistance living. We drove past emaciated cattle, languid water buffalo, and wooden houses on tall stilts ...
... a country you have only been in for 4 days? We transferred from the boat to a minivan for the final haul to Phnom Penh. My first vivid memory of Cambodia is of a little girl, probably 5 years old or so, throwing a small rock at our car window. Things ...
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Getting Trigger Happy with the Cambodian Army
Posted on Jun 13, 2009, 01:46:45
Cambodia is officially the third most corrupt country in the world (source: Transparency International) where money talks and bullS*$# walks. They also have stockpiles of aging weapons from the Pol Pot regime. Put the two together and it's possible to ...
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Rana Homestay near Kampong Cham
Posted on Sep 16, 2008, 00:28:35
... you on tours of the village and farmlands (where she grew up before working for an NGO in Phnom Penh for 10 years), inbetween making delicious homecooked Cambodia meals (best Amok anywhere!). In the evening people from the village come to talk to you ...
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Money Safe carriage
Posted on Jul 11, 2007, 13:56:45
... cards, apart from to book a flight with Bangkok airlines to get back to BKK, cash was the way forward. Cambodia is lovely, there's a lot of poverty, but Phnom Penh is beautiful and the temples of Angkor are spectacular. I hope you enjoy it, I wish I ...
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Money Safe carriage
Posted on Jul 10, 2007, 18:39:39
... cards, apart from to book a flight with Bangkok airlines to get back to BKK, cash was the way forward. Cambodia is lovely, there's a lot of poverty, but Phnom Penh is beautiful and the temples of Angkor are spectacular. I hope you enjoy it, I wish I ...
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