The View from Our Hotel Room

Back to the Beach

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June 27th 2005
So, though we'd already been there, we headed back to the beach. We had played around with the idea of going to Kampong Cham, but it felt like forced tourism. We would have been going there just because we hadn't been there before. According to Lonely Planet and the few people we talked to in Phnom Penh, there isn't much to see in Kampong Cham. There's supposed to be some temples, but they apparen ... read more

Asia » Cambodia » South » Sihanoukville

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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