Pleasantly Post-Apocalyptic Kampot, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. Kampot has a pleasantly post-apocalyptic feel. Cambodian women in pink flannel pyjamas bicycle silently past blocks of crumbling French architecture. Decades of neglect, haphazard repurposing and jury rigging have transformed the colonial shops and villas into something odd and transient. A few travelers sit in wicker…
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Anchor What?
Janelle In Preah Khan, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. Some things live up to the hype. Angkor is one of those things. It’s hard to say this without sounding geeky (impossible, in fact) so here it goes: Angkor is like all my childhood Dungeons & Dragons or Lord of the Rings-inspired flights of imagination…
A Holiday in Cambodia
And it’s a holiday in Cambodia Where you’ll do what you’re told A holiday in Cambodia Where the slums got so much soul –Dead Kennedys Bus Travel, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. We arrived at the Cambodian border fully expecting to pay our first-ever direct, unambiguous bribe to a government official. I even had…