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Cambodia Travel Stories

Siem Reap, Cambodia: Siem Reap, Cambodia - Travel Story by Betsy Campo
- 7th Online Issue

Cambodia: the name alone evokes an array of images. Our largely American entourage had many notions of what to expect – a vague familiarity with its past struggles, nightmarish visions of Pol Pot and his murderous Khmer Rouge regime, Dith Pran's Killing Fields, piles of skulls, suffering and poverty. We saw the aftermath of this... and more. As a parade of temples, villages, people and experiences were presented to us in the coming days, we were all left dazed by the compelling dichotomy of Cambodia.

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Phnom Penh, Cambodia: The Hill of Penh - Travel Story by Doreen Pon
- 7th Online Issue

Words like “dangerous”, “dilapidated”, and “depressing” tend to creep into most descriptions of Phnom Penh, the much maligned capital of Cambodia. Almost 30 years of brutal civil war and political turmoil have left this former jewel of French Indochina with both physical and psychological scars. But like all survivors, Phnom Penh has a message to share and a lesson to teach to all travelers who stay long enough to listen.

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Strung Strang, Cambodia: "Young Female, Traveling Alone" - Travel Story by Manuela Pop
- 5th Online Issue

“How much to cross over to Strung Strang?” I asked the Cambodian man.

“Fifty dollars,” he quickly replied.

“Fifty dollars? That’s way too much. How about thirty for both of us?”

I had met Esther, a young Israeli girl, on Don Det, an island in the Four Thousand Islands region south of Laos. She was traveling with a group of Israelis through Asia. We were going to travel together through Cambodia.

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Phnom Penh, Cambodia: “Yes, Yes" - Travel Story by Gregory McElwain
- 3rd Online Issue

In Phnom Penh, taxis were scarce and reserved for luggage-laden rides to the airport or day trips to far-flung sites, making the ubiquitous moto, the local Frenchified slang for motorcycle, the vehicle of choice for short runs around the city. Upon seeing a bumbling foreigner on a street, anyone driving a moto could suddenly transform himself into a purveyor of public transport.

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