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Khmer survivor, part 1

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January 31st 2013
Bangkok, 27-31 December Phnom Penh, 31 December-7 January After leaving Koh Samui and island life and spending a heady few days' stopover in Bangkok, where we managed to do a whole lot and not very much at all, we boarded a plane on New Year's afternoon bound for Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodia is a place I have dreamt of going to for years and we were both on a real hig ... 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