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Hello from Angkor Wat!
Sorry about the radio silence, but the last few days have been physically exhausting–touring the Angkor temples. (The temple complex is generically called Angkor Wat, after the largest temples, but...
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I have finished up five days in Siem Reap, touring the ruins of Angkor (which are amazingly impressive if also amazingly overrun by tourists), plus a side trip to Les Artisans d’Angkor’s silk farm,...
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First, happy Yule to everyone, and I hope you enjoyed Solstice! …if you celebrate it, that is. (Happy Christmas, Hannukah, and other winter solstitial holidays if you don’t.) That said…you folks have...
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A whole new insight into traffic laws
..umm, there *may* be some in Cambodia, but if so I haven’t noticed them yet. Today, after five hours in an Internet cafe uploading my Website (I said it had a *faster* connection…I didn’t say it was...
View Articlecomments on Cambodia, to Saigon tomorrow!
Well, after two weeks in Cambodia, here are Tien’s Rules for Surviving Cambodia: (1) Moto drivers are *not* hitting on you. 1/3 of their approaches will be stylistically indistinguishable from Western...
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Hello from Cambodia!
…and welcome to the Third World. Yesterday I made the border crossing at Poipet, then took the bus to Siem Reap. It’s about 325 miles total, 14 hours with a two-hour stop at the border. The Thai side...
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