Stuffed Crocodile outside store

Siem Reap

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December 12th 2010
Sunday, December 12th Siem Reap, Cambodia We left on a 90 minute flight from Hanoi to Siem Reap, a city of 120,000 people. Even though Siem Reap sees approximately 2 million tourists each year visiting the temples of Angkor, the people in this area are among Cambodia’s poorest. From 1975 to 1979 the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot, set about restructuring and transforming Cambodia into a peas ... 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