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Published: January 30th 2008
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Indigestion.
Experience overload.
Hey, I'm not not complaining! My three weeks in south-east Asia - Cambodia and Laos, with overnight stops in Kuala Lumpur - earlier this month were simply stunning. It's a while since I've been somewhere that seemed initially so "foreign", so different. That has so much history, both ancient and remarkable, and recent and horrific. Where the people are so charming, and still seemingly a little naive about the tourists who are becoming the mainstay of their economies. Where there is so much to see and to do, yet where internal transport is still geared to the local way of life rather than to catering for the full tourist-itinerary. Where the food deliciously combines the Orient with a strong French colonial legacy, and the beer, wine and cocktails flow generously.
As I now do my washing, catch up on email and pack my bags for a trip of a completely different kind, I'm wondering quite how best to convey, before I set off again, a flavour of some of the variety of things that I have seen and done this month, without inundating you with too much verbiage. For this reason, I've decided to break
you all in gently for what may be a number of blogs this week with a largely pictorial blog about Phnom Penh.
Enjoy...
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Rhonda
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Hi Gorgeous - love the photos. You've really captured Cambodia in a few words and photos. Isn't it wonderful...and wierd, too? If you get a chance, read the book, "Pol Pot, Anatomy of a Nightmare" by Philip Short. Wish we were with you. Warmest hugs, Rhonda