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April 21st 2013

Published: April 26th 2013

I am eating fish cakes shaped like Angry Birds and deep-fried dumplings with my friend CJ at the night market in Phnom Penh. In an effort to get acquainted with the city, we’re trying to have dinner in a most Khmer way, sitting on a mat. Around us, families and young people are enjoying the evening straight out of work and school. A young woman sings on a stage nearby, her rendition of a Khmer p... Read Full Entry

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Jay Exiomo

JayExiomo

Although he lived much of his toddler years abroad in the US and spent his early childhood roaming around the Philippines with his parents, Jay didn't really catch the travel bug until much later in 2006, when he was dragged to a microfinance conference in Thailand. He considers it his first true taste of travel, with his childhood already but a vague, distant memory. Something about being in a foreign place stirred his wanderlust, and his feet have constantly itched since. After graduating with a degree in Multimedia Arts, Jay worked as a news writer, then as a high school teacher. Presently,... full info

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Silver Pagoda

Intricate designs on a structure

Wat Ounalom

The center of Buddhism in Phnom Penh

Wat Phnom

Novice monks at the temple

Wat Phnom

Incense and other things of worship at the temple

Wat Phnom

A family that prays together, stays together.

Bodhi Tree Umma

A restaurant across the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

Bodhi Tree Umma

Inside the restaurant

Bodhi Tree Umma

Green Khmer Curry and Tofu Amok

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

The security of regulation

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

One of the museum's corridors

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

A bed in what was once a prison cell

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

More beds in another room

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

A pole used for students' physical education classes was turned into a torture device by Khmer Rogue guards

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

Photographs of some of the prisoners

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

Photographs of some of the prisoners

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

Photographs of some of the prisoners

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

Photographs of some of the prisoners

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

Buildings were enclosed in barbed wire fences to prevent prisoners from escaping

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

Inside the prison cells

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

Exhibit showing the horrors these rooms have seen

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

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28th April 2013

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

SOLEMN REMINDER
The mention of the Killing Fields...your pictures. Reminds me of the feelings that are inescapable when in Cambodia...the gentleness and big smiles of the people concealing the massive sadness in all of their families by the systematic genocide by the Khmer Rouge.

28th April 2013

JayExiomo
Jay Exiomo

I agree.
And I think it's what makes Cambodians all the more admirable.

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