Mike on the pier ... as far away from the touts and hawkers as he could get!

Street vendors and Cinema in Snooky

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July 28th 2011
Sihanoukville, right down south, was the French playground in the early 1900's. Today it's kind of like a Cambodian Skegness. Shops and street vendors selling bracelets, plastic models of Angkor Wat, fruit, pedicures, beads and other assorted tat are everywhere. On every beach we visited we didn't rest long before someone came up offered to de-fuzz us ('I do your hair leg?' ... 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