17-24 July After a chaotic, early morning exit from Siem Reap, Kris, Carrie and I found ourselves aboard the boat for a leisurely 8 hour journey to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. We began in the Tonle Sap lake, the largest in Cambodia, which later narrowed to the Tonle Sap River and to our destination. We were coming from a place that evidenced the beauty and wonder of the ancient Khmers in Angkor to the capital city, which still reeled from the recent atrocities of the genocide of the Khmer Rouge. Phnom Penh was set up as the country's capital by the occupying French, and as a result, the riverside is lined with Parisian-style bistros, cafes and esplanade. It's a mixture of colonial architecture, a myriad of hotels and everyday street vendors; from tuk
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