"Welcome to our country, welcome to Cambodia" a phrase that echoed around us as we touched down in Phnom Penh, the new capital city. The people instantly hitting you as proud people, so glad that, as a tourist you had decided to visit. So knowledgable about both their country and yours it was hard not to warm to them instantly, and this is exactly what we did. We could not really comprehend how people who did not have real democracy until 1998, who had witnessed the insane cruelty of both the effects of the Vietnam war and the Civil war that followed, maintained this sense of Karma, but that is what they believe in the most. Do good in this life and you will be rewarded in the next. In my opinion not a bad philosophy
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