Posts in Category: Cambodia
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Angkor Wat – Cambodia’s Gift to the World
Alas, this is my final post from the life-changing 2023 trip to Southeast Asia which started in Bangkok and will now end in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Adventures Abroad has delivered everything Alison and I could want on this odyssey through three completely different countries Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. The good news is that they have […]
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Siem Reap – Gateway to Angkor
In the last post from the 2023 Adventures Abroad tour of Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia I had the unpleasant, but necessary task of documenting our visit to the Killing Fields. Those events occurred within my lifetime and demonstrated, as does the current situation in Ukraine, that you can never take peaceful co-existence and human sanity […]
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The Killing Fields – Cambodia’s Nightmarish Past
Ever since I was a young boy I have always had a compulsion to visit places where terrible things have happened. I think this sprung from my fascination with history and I know it was confirmed when at age 13 I visited Vimy Ridge and other WWI sites with my grandfather, knowing he had fought […]
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Phnom Penh – More Than the Killing Fields
In my last post from Southeast Asia our group concluded our visit to Vietnam by visiting the Mekong Delta where we spent a day exploring this watery wonderland. However, this epic journey through three countries with Adventures Abroad has not come to an end as we will now head to Cambodia for the final five […]