Category: Cambodia

Cara was bitter. She was sick, stranded in the hotel room. Adam met Pirom, a clever 16 year old English student, who invited him for a Sunday visit in his family’s village. Adam consumed palm juice, palm wine, and ice cold beer. Adam ate mangoes, palm fruit, tamarind, and coconuts hand picked from their trees.…

We’re in Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia, recovering from being in the dirty but welcoming countryside. With any luck our visas and passports will come through this evening for Vietnam and we’ll be on a boat down the Mekong river tomorrow morning. Time for a regional food update. Cambodia definitely has a simpler…

We are here in the middle of the dry season, and the ever-present rice paddies are a dull brown broken up only by colorful pagodas and sporadic spikes of palm trees. Pickup trucks overflowing with bushels of vegetables, bags of rice, suitcases, motorbikes, and as many people as can find a handhold are the standard…

Took us a bit to figure this one out, but they are frequent sites in Cambodia.

6 Days wandering Angkor Wat and its neighboring temples has turned us into archaeological devotees, admiring every lintel, pediment, and bas-relief. Package tours bustle most tourists through the Angkor temples in 3 days, starting before sunrise and ending after sunset, ostensibly seeing the same number of temples that we have in 6 days. We lack…

Bargaining with police men over the clearly posted cost of your visa is a new low. After 1 broken down bus, 10 hours overnight in a cockroach infested border town (the safe side), walking across the border, some bribery, and 3 hours off-roading on the highway in a Toyota Camry, we arrived in Siem Reap,…