Conversing with a monk.

The very dark side of Cambodia...

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December 5th 2007
Although I'm very glad to have visited Cambodia, it was the hardest country to visit by far. Cambodia has a population of over 13 million people, with Phnom Penh being its capital. Cambodia is the successor state of the once powerful Hindu and Buddhist Khmer Empire, which ruled most of the Indochinese Peninsula between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. Most Cambodians are Theravada Budd ... read more

Asia » Cambodia

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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 ... ... read more