Life and Hope in the Other Angkor
December 5th 2006 Waking on the hard floor of the temple at 4:30am, I quickly bathed myself with a pan of water at the monks' water basin, threw on a light long-sleeve shirt, a pair of cargo shorts, and some comfortable hiking shoes. By 5:00am I was waiting patiently outside the gates of Wat Damnak. I watched the sky lighten and the sun begin to rise, but my tuk-tuk driver never showed.
As fate would have it
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