Gates to Angkor Thom

Cambodge

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April 10th 2009
31 March We left Bangkok early in the morning in a minibus headed for the Cambodian border. Despite the lengthy journey, things were kept interesting inside the bus with an incident involving pickled mango (read: sticky sugary juice was all over the bus and vain attempts at cleaning it with wet wipes and trying to siphon the juice from the pickled mango bag into a yogurt container were disaste ... read more

Asia » Cambodia

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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