Photo Friday #24 Kids on the Sangker Riverbank, Cambodia, 2006 This year’s Passports with Purpose fundraiser aims to earn $13,000 to build a school in Cambodia. For just $10 you can bid on a prize and donate to a worthy cause. It has been almost four years since the DH and I visited Siem Reap [...]
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Reading this week: Tibet as ‘Hell on Earth’ by Elliot Sperling in the Far Eastern Economic Review Was Tibet “hell on earth” before the Chinese “emancipated the serfs” in 1959?Is it “hell on earth” today, as the Dalai Lama believes? Sperling, the director of the Tibetan Studies program at Indiana University’s department of Central Eurasia [...]
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Window at Angkor Wat, Cambodia, February 2006 When the DH and I moved to China in 2005, we were excited about the opportunity to travel throughout Asia. Our first holiday we flew to Bangkok and then traveled by bus to Cambodia to visit Siem Reap. Thanks to Tales of Asia this was a piece of [...]
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Thanks to Global Voices Online, (once again! I love that site!), I’ve found a blog with a few videos of 1960s Cambodia – years before the ruin of Khmer Rouge rule and civil war. You can find the videos here. Although I have only been to a few places in Cambodia, I could instantly see [...]
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Speaking of being fortunate… Nicholas D. Kristof, a columnist for the New York Times, recently wrote an article about slavery in the world today. He illustrated the idea that slavery is still widespread these days with the story of a young Cambodian girl who was kidnapped in an attempt to sell her into a prostitution [...]
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I’ve been haunted by the images of Cambodia from the books I have been reading. I suppose that I grew up knowing that something happened there. I didn’t know what exactly, and had no idea the extent of the brutality, but I did know that there was a war, just as there was war in [...]
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Bear with me, this is long. After a few days in Siem Reap, we decided to head back to Thailand. We didn’t want to return the same way we had come – the border town of Poipet is not a nice place. Instead, we opted for a boat ride down the Stung Sangker River. We [...]
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Yet more photos! Here I am in a Tuk Tuk with our driver, and a few photos of some Cambodian people, and a modern Buddhist Wat, or temple. Now come of some of my favorite photos. Several of the temples within the complex have not been reconstructed as thoroughly as Angkor Wat and Bayon. Here [...]
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The following photos are from Bayon temple, which is within the Angkor Thom complex, just down the road from Angkor Wat. The above photos reveal the dramatically inclined steps up to the central towers that are found on most all of the temples with the complex. What a climb! The elephant above is used to [...]
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Some of the fabulous temples that we saw while at Angkor Wat: The above photos are all from Angkor Wat. Tomorrow I will post some photos of the other temples within the complex.
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I'm an American expat living on the fringe of Chinese society. Thanks to a lifetime spent moving around, I often feel like an outsider. This blog explores life in Beijing, China, the occasional aviation topic, expat issues, random travel experiences and interesting things I see, read and hear. If you want to know more about my latest hobby, visit Sewing on the Fringe, where I blog about learning to sew in Beijing. And for daily documentation of Beijing's ever changing air quality, visit My Beijing Window. And, yes, I do wear my santa hat year-round. ;)
