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Siem Reap and the temples of Angkor

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February 19th 2011
Our journey to Siem Reap was an interesting one.... a cramped bus as usual but this time full of Cambodians being sick into plastic bags everywhere! We have never seen so many people puking at once! And worse still, the puked filled plastic bags were just casually tied up and left to sit amongst our feet for the whole 6 hour journey! However, the journey was made slightly more bearable by a cute k ... read more

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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