A tree full of Pit Vipers

Why does your town smell like rotting fish?

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December 20th 2007
Well one week has gone by and we are steadly heading east towards Vietnam. Since our last posting we dropped back to Bangkok for another day before our train to the Cambodian border the following morning. The highlight of this was a visit to the "Snake Farm", on the grounds of a local hospital. An assortment of venomous snakes are kept for research and anti-venom production, with a show illustrati ... read more

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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