visiting Cambodia
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South East Asia Day 79: Missing the UK… (Or Not)
If my maths is right (and it probably isn’t), today marks three quarters of this trip. In honour of this significant landmark, here is a list I’ve been compiling of what I miss about home… and what I could happily never see again. Things I don’t miss about the UK Drizzle Wearing three layers to Continue reading
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Bring a Torch to Cambodia
It’s been a heavy few blogs, so here is a treat for you at home in the UK on what I’m assuming is a dismal February day: I went to a beach and it was excellent. Well if we’re going to get into it, I went to a few beaches. There were multiples of excellence. Continue reading
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Phnom Penh Part 3: the Killing Fields of Choeung Ek & Tuol Sleng Museum
We only really went to Phnom Penh for two places, and those places are horrible. But I’d be a terrible person if I didn’t talk about it, so… SOME HISTORY: in 1975 a radical communist group, the Khmer Rouge, seized power of Cambodia’s government with a vision to turn Cambodia into a ‘communist agrarian utopia’, Continue reading
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Phnom Penh Part 2: the Grand Palace & Our First Day Bus
We hit up the palace on our last morning in the city, because our bus to Shianoukville was too late in the day to just bum around while we waited (we made up for it by bumming around in Sihanoukville). I haven’t forgotten that I haven’t blogged about the Killing Fields and S-21 museum, it’s Continue reading
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