Category: Cambodia

Siem Reap is an enigma. The roads are riddled with potholes the size of water buffalos but are flanked by four star resorts on either side. Tourism is booming and there is a relatively significant daily fee to see the Angkor temples but trash is everywhere, infrastructure is lacking, and blackouts are common. Nonetheless, Siem …

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Our original plan was to spend only a week in Cambodia exploring the Angkor temples in Siem Reap. But as Reed learned about Cambodia’s recent history and how everyone was forced out of Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital city, by the Khmer Rouge in the mid-1970s, he said he really wanted to see it, so we …

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