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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By alleyways | Views [314] | Scholarship Entry
Tonle Sap's waters smelt mildly like diesel fuel. A dirty-brown mixture of water, mud and clay. Water splashed against the side of our boat as it broke through the mist, sending droplets of contaminated river water to our faces. A speedboat pulled up ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By chuckfilamor | Views [200] | Scholarship Entry
"How does an elephant end up in the middle of the road?" I ask the young boy as he surveys the crowd while handing me a handful of bracelets. He smiles and replies in Khmer. I smile back. Briefly, I pause to watch a monstrous mammal elegantly thread ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By laurasearle | Views [176] | Scholarship Entry
My alarm went off at 4am, but I had been awake for an hour already. I was stressing about whether or not I had packed enough pairs of socks (I had), if my phone was charged (it wasn't), and whether or not I was going to survive my first trip away from ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By khunshisha | Views [166] | Scholarship Entry
Phnom Penh, that closed and narrow bowl of heat and humidity, had drained the traveller in me. Accustomed as I had been to crowds and dust after having spent the previous five years in that definition of Indianess, Kolkata/ Calcutta, the rows of massage ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By travellernotasettler | Views [215] | Scholarship Entry
Lying down on a wooden beach chair in Sihanoukville, I felt content for the first time in many months. I had just completed an action-packed three-day weekend in December that saw me experience a gamut of emotions and I made a solemn vow to make travelling ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By writerzone | Views [120] | Scholarship Entry
Ye Cheer…the sound of all students surprised with the news of their lecturer who said, “Tomorrow, we have a trip to Koh Dach Island; we meet up at 7 AM.” Oops....the disappointed sound of the students with the additional news that they all not only ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By shriti | Views [138] | Scholarship Entry
And we were in Bangkok. Again. And as we negotiated with the familiar bright lights, pink taxis, tuk-tuks, and noisy streets we were far away from it already. We poured over print outs as we sipped our drinks and something fluttered in our stomachs. It ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By mei-meets-the-world | Views [196] | Scholarship Entry
You know when you finished a trip to a country that you were so much in love with and when you waved goodbye to it, you whispered to yourself that one day you would definitely come back, but chances are you will never make it happen. Oh well, at least ... Read more >
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Tue, 13 May 2014 | By christiemcl | Views [153] | Scholarship Entry
From across the west gate, Angkor Wat stands formidably grey against the Indochina sun. Inside its grounds, however, the sacred Hindu-Buddhist temple fades into a frenzied fair: tourist guides mouthing memorized scripts to unsuspecting patrons; tour parties ... Read more >
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Tue, 13 May 2014 | By joyousworld | Views [187] | Scholarship Entry
Grey is a shade you rarely find in Cambodia- lime green, lemon, orange, sand coloured pink, peach- from buildings to Tuktuks life is brighter. Perhaps the colours are a way to cheer up the steaming day and the lights to brighten the balmy night. Either ... Read more >
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Mon, 12 May 2014 | By symon | Views [146] | Scholarship Entry
I woke up last night screaming and thrashing my body, drenched in sweat. Perhaps for a second I felt the smallest fragment of the fear the Khmer people felt during the Khmer Rouge.Today I visited the Tuol Sleng prison and the Choeung Ek Killing Fields.... Read more >
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Mon, 12 May 2014 | By samjadewanderer | Views [158] | Scholarship Entry
Yada has just asked me if I would mind stopping near his house as he needs to change his shirt. Alarm bells chime in my head. I’d felt safe with my tuk tuk driver during our last three days of temple touring but perhaps he had spontaneously decided to ... Read more >
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Mon, 12 May 2014 | By checrys | Views [283] | Scholarship Entry
Sunrise-watching has never been an activity on the itinerary that I was keen of. There I was – sitting in the dark, swatting mosquitoes with one hand while the other supported my heavy head – waiting for the sun to rise behind the towers of Angkor Wat.... Read more >
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Sun, 11 May 2014 | By mybeautifulworld | Views [139] | Scholarship Entry
In a country devastated by such a recent and tragic history of suffering and pain at the hands of their own leader, whilst the rest of the world turned a blind eye, when arriving in Cambodia I expected to be greeted by sorrow and oppression (and understandably ... Read more >
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Sat, 10 May 2014 | By crazyblondeabroad | Photo Gallery
I went to Cambodia with friends during my Chinese New Year holiday.
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