Tour group with egret

I saw her face, now I'm a bee-eater

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February 10th 2009
I was up at 5:00 AM for a 5:45 pick up by the Sam Veasna Center. It was me, the guide, a Khmer guide, two Canadians, a Portuguese, and a Rastamerican. We drove out to a river in a van, then boarded a standard tourist boat. We took this boat past floating villages, up to a more major floating village to present ourselves for permission, then across Tonle Sap Lake and through a private fishing lot t ... read more

Asia » Cambodia » North » Tonlé Sap

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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