A Motorbike Ride through the Cambodian Countryside and the Death of a Chicken - Cambodia
February 18th 2008 From the moment we arrived in town, a forty-year old Cambodian man had been hounding us to hire him for a motorbike tour through the countryside. He’d be waiting in the lobby of our hotel every morning when we came down, and would ask if we’d like to go for a ride today. His eagerness suggests the profitability of work with tourists over other traditional jobs available to him. We finally said
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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 
