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Background: Most Cambodians consider themselves to be Khmers, whose Angkor Empire extended over much of Southeast Asia and reached its zenith between the 10th and 13th centuries. Subsequently, attacks by the Thai and Cham (from present-day Vietnam) weakened the empire ushering in a long period of decline. In 1863, the king of Cambodia placed the country under French protection; it became part of French Indochina in 1887. Following Japanese occupation in World War II, Cambodia became independent within the French Union in 1949 and fully independent in 1953. After a five-year struggle, Communist Khmer Rouge forces captured Phnom Penh in April 1975 and ordered the evacuation of all cities and towns; at least 1.5 million Cambodians died from execution, enforced hardships, or starvation during the Khmer Rouge regime under POL POT. A December 1978 Vietnamese invasion drove the Khmer Rouge into the countryside, led to a 10-year Vietnamese occupation, and touched off almost 13 years of civil war. The 1991 Paris Peace Accords mandated democratic elections and a ceasefire, which was not fully respected by the Khmer Rouge. UN-sponsored elections in 1993 helped restore some semblance of normalcy and the final elements of the Khmer Rouge surrendered in early 1999. Factional fighting in 1997 ended the first coalition government, but a second round of national elections in 1998 led to the formation of another coalition government and renewed political stability. The July 2003 elections were relatively peaceful, but it took one year of negotiations between contending political parties before a coalition government was formed. Nation-wide local elections are scheduled for 2007 and national elections for 2008.




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Banteay Srei and Beng Mealea
1 day ago: OldLadyVagabond published a blog
Banteay Srei and Beng Mealea
November 20th 2009  Asia » Cambodia » North » Siem Reap
The most popular sites at Angkor are over-run with tourists every day, so we took the opportunity to go to two of the temples that lie some distance from town. The first is called Banteay Srei or ... 13 photos [full story]

The Tonle Sap
1 day ago: OldLadyVagabond published a blog
The Tonle Sap
November 19th 2009  Asia » Cambodia » North » Siem Reap
Our first view of Cambodia from the window of our Lao Airways plane was totally different from what I expected. I had imagined a dry, dusty, haphazard landscape; what I saw from high in the air was a ... 8 photos [full story]

Floating Village and Forest: My National Geographic Moment
November 15th 2009  Asia » Cambodia » North » Siem Reap
Up at 7:15, showered, ate breakfast and jumped back on Dy’s motorbike. We drove about 35 minutes out of Siem Reap and into the countryside. Saw some interesting things: a woman breastfeeding whi ... 60 photos [full story]

Friday the 13th; Who Says It
November 14th 2009  Asia » Cambodia » North » Siem Reap
I love traveling. No. I traveling. From the moment a trip idea materializes in my brain until the moment I step off the return flight home. I love the planning, debating, talking, and reading a ... 45 photos [full story]

Siem Reap - Phnom Penh
6 days ago: Roey published a blog
Siem Reap - Phnom Penh
November 4th 2009  Asia » Cambodia » North » Siem Reap
Woke up at 0630 as we were on our way to Phnom Penh and were gettting picked up at our hotel at 0745. As usual, we were hungover, hadn't packed shit so between swearing, chucking tantrums, finding wha ... 11 photos [full story]

7 days ago: jessw published a blog
Our Khmertastic week in review
November 13th 2009  Asia » Cambodia » North » Siem Reap
It's been a busy week for us, and I thought I'd post a very quick update. Monday was sad because we had to say goodbye to Mim. It seemed a loooong time before we had an email from her saying she ha ... [full story]

8 days ago: ElyseandPete published a blog
More Videos from trip
November 7th 2009  Asia » Cambodia » North » Siem Reap
Here are some more videos from our trip including the elephant ride and Ta Prohm temple (where Tomb Raider was filmed with Angelina Jolie). We had such a great time in Siem Reap and if you ever get a ... [full story]

November 5th 2009  Asia » Cambodia » North » Siem Reap
As requested from many of our friends and family you wanted more videos and on this trip we took lots so here are some from the floating village visit located along Tonle Sap Lake which is the largest ... [full story]

Day 2-Roluos Group of Temples and Floating Village visit
November 5th 2009  Asia » Cambodia » North » Siem Reap
Sak, our tuk tuk driver, picked us up at 8am to head out for a day of touring the smaller temples. Since we were going to be touring for 3 days we started out with the smaller more remote temples and ... 16 photos [full story]

Cambodia via Bangkok, Thailand
8 days ago: ElyseandPete published a blog
Cambodia via Bangkok, Thailand
November 4th 2009  Asia » Cambodia » North » Siem Reap
We decided to go to Cambodia the cheaper way from Shenzhen only $250 USD roundtrip from Shenzhen to Bangkok(3hr flight). Other option was to fly from Hong Kong to Siem Reap or Phnom Penh, but we both ... 11 photos [full story]


Siem Reap Blog Entries

Temples of Angkor
The Forest Takes Over, Ta Phrom
Sunset at Ta Phrom
Butterfly, Banteay Srei
Buddha at Bayon
Brücke nach Angkor Wat
Angkor Thom the Bayom
De Dochter van Liang
Prea Khan
Very exacting in their hand placement
face  /  cara
The fine temple of Banteay Srei - near Siem Reap, Cambodia
Stone faces of the Bayon in Angkor Thom - Siem Reap, Cambodia
A fine pool in Le Meridien Angkor - Siem Reap, Cambodia
Dark clouds gather over Angkor Wat - Siem Reap, Cambodia
Buxom [i]apsaras[/i] (heavenly dancers) within Angkor Wat - Siem Reap, Cambodia

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