relief carving

Cambodia and Vietnam for the winter holiday

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February 19th 2010
Winter break has come and gone again. I started getting ancy for my trip right around Christmas, when I threw my 2nd annual (smash-hit) brunch (attended by approximately 40 of my lovely co-workers). I was cautiously making general plans for my trip: I knew I wanted to go to Cambodia and Vietnam, but didn’t want to cram a lot of physical movement onto my travel platter. I decided to just go to t ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more