We all wrote and colored our names in

Angkor What??

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May 15th 2011
[Pictures best viewed full screen. Keep scrolling down beyond the text for more pictures.) After Phnom Penh, we headed to Battambang, a rural area in Cambodia, to volunteer as English teachers at a local NGO. The program director asked us to be at the community center at 8 am so we set our alarms for 6:45 am (definitely a change of pace... but the center was in a village 14km from the city and ... read more

Asia » Cambodia » North » Siem Reap

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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