From the profound, to the bizarre, to the horrific, so go our travels through Cambodia. Angkor Wat is, as expected, breath taking and exhausting all in one. The constant begging and postcard offering is both frustrating and sad but when a region, and in many ways an entire country, depend on the "walking white ATM", you have to understand. Then onto Battambang. Which, since we couldn't remember how to properly pronounce, quickly became "Bada Bing". This is the other tourist destination in the area and reachable by bus or boat from Siem Reap. We opted for boat as we had been told that the bus is complete torture and the boat only just a little painful. Ironically, our new buddy Mitch (let's hear it for Canadians moving to the USA) forewarned us that the trip
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