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         		 2 brothers who lost their mum 6 weeks ago, big brother now the protective
         		 My lovely friend Gail, from USA with a friend: by heathergay, Views[379]
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         		 Daily life on our newest temporary home of Siem Reap -- Mi buys veggies at the Old Market... we passed on the frogs, eels and turtles!: by ivan_miral, Views[378]
         		 We visited a program in Siem Reap that helps impoverished village children get an education – which includes learning traditional Khmer dances. Each Sunday night the children offer performances that yield donations that help fund the program. Here, two girls perform Apsara dancing – the same dances depicted on the reliefs at Angkor Wat. Knowledge of these dances was destroyed by the Khmer Rouge, and it took the assistance of Thai dancers to bring them back to Cambodia.: by ivan_miral, Views[449]
         		 The children of Cambodia with their magnetic and infectious smiles. Like few other places in the world, you feel how vital it is to raise these children into healthy, functional adults. The future of Cambodia literally depends on it.: by ivan_miral, Views[608]
         		 We drove 15 minutes outside of Phnom Penh to The Killing Fields of Choeung Ek – the death and grave site for most S21 victims. The skulls and bones and old clothes that we saw preserved in this beautiful stupa are only a percentage of those that filled Killing Fields from 1975-1979 and are scattered all across the country.: by ivan_miral, Views[384]
     
    Men, women, and children... each person with her own story, her own life. We looked at them in these, their mug shots. And for some, we looked at them in photos that recorded their torture, their killing. : by ivan_miral, Views[3671]
         		 The rooms of S21 are now lined with mug shots of the prisoners, nearly all of whom were killed before they saw freedom again. Less than a handful of survivors later help to color in the nightmare of how the prison functioned and the systematic killing of thousands. : by ivan_miral, Views[349]
         		 Ive and I wove in and out of the school rooms with their stained checkered tiles. We forced ourselves to look at rusted torture beds, one after the other. In one room I noticed a blackboard, and I realized that the room had been as safe in the weeks before the takeover as it was now as I was standing in it. And I thought of how, in the years to come, tourists will pay money to visit the same places in Darfur and Burma and all over the world where we won't risk to go now. And my mind broke a little. : by ivan_miral, Views[380]
         		 Here, makeshift prisoner cells constructed inside S21. In each tiny space, chains are cemented to the floor.: by ivan_miral, Views[487]
         		 Tuol Svay Prey High School was turned by the Khmer Rouge into what is now known as S21 – the most notorious of torture prisons. When Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1979, I (Mi), was a toddler, safe on the other side of the world. I had no idea that what was being discovered were freshly killed victims, along with records of the most heinous acts human beings can do to another. 30 years later, I stop here to see, among the ropes and pliers and knives and chains, the prison's waterboarding mechanism. Waterboarding. We do this too, I whisper to myself.: by ivan_miral, Views[685]
     
    Before the Khmer Rouge and before the decades of civil wars, Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital city, was known as the “Paris of the East.” Today, the capital bursts again with life as the Khmer work to rebuild their lives. This is a typical street scene in the city.: by ivan_miral, Views[1599]
         		 ...and an amazing array of Buddha statues – here, at one of the ceremonial pavilions. We weren't allowed to photograph them, but the ultimate in gorgeous Buddha statues were housed in the Silver Pagoda – including an Emerald Buddha made of Baccarat crystal and a life-sized golden Buddha decorated with 9584 diamonds! These are some of the only Buddhist artifacts that survived the Khmer Rouge attempt to rid the nation of its religious heritage.: by ivan_miral, Views[604]
         		 The grounds of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh – displaying beautiful Khmer architecture... : by ivan_miral, Views[588]
         		 The interior of Wat Phnom is ornate with walls painted with religious stories; its Buddha statues of all heights and offering bowls of all sizes invite pilgrims to indulge in prayer and ritual offerings. : by ivan_miral, Views[544]
         		 Here, we visit an eclectic shrine near Wat Phnom in Phnom Penh (Buddhist temples are called wats in Southeast Asia) and glimpse some of the more animist and Brahminist practices that mix with Buddhism in the religious practices of the Khmer, including offerings of insense, money and food.: by ivan_miral, Views[728]
     
    We seized a chance to dine on some “pick your own ingredients” soup at Phnom Penh's ultra-modern Sorya Shopping Centre.: by ivan_miral, Views[494]
         		 Mmmm, street food! Cambodians love their food stalls! This one was located outside of Psar Tuol Tom Pong, also known as the Russian Market, where locally manufactured clothing by Ralph Lauren/Polo and Banana Republic/Gap/Old Navy sell for closer to their real cost -- less than one-tenth of what they go for in the United States. : by ivan_miral, Views[1621]
         		 A diversion we couldn't have expected – an 8:30am visit to a Phnom Penh bar to watch, on big screen TV, Ive's alma mater Crimson Tide take the BCS National Championship – complete with Bloody Marys, the first Crystal hot sauce we have seen since leaving the States, and some traditional “Roll Tide Roll” paraphernalia (Ive had to bring that part!). We were joined by an upbeat Social Worker from Dothan, Alabama -- and a guy from Texas who became more and more sullen as the morning unfolded. : by ivan_miral, Views[313]
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         		 our bungalow at the beach in Sihanoukville: by utegute, Views[240]
         		 view on the area around Kep: by utegute, Views[235]
         		 That is on our motorcycle trip from Kampot to Kep. It's the entrance to a cave. The stalagmites look like elephant-heads, right?!!: by utegute, Views[254]
     
    last one..: by utegute, Views[234]
         		 And one more. It's both beautiful and scary. Probably because of the strange colour.: by utegute, Views[275]
         		 the casino at the hill-station: by utegute, Views[477]
         		 first impression of the casino at the hill-station: by utegute, Views[215]
         		 After 3hour trecking through the jungle, uphill, a truck drove us the last kilometers along a dirt-road to the hill-station.: by utegute, Views[204]
     
    The jungle. On the way to Bokor hill-station.: by utegute, Views[293]
         		 on the way to the hill-station: by utegute, Views[221]
         		 nice and quiet in Kampot: by utegute, Views[157]
         		 our guest-house in Kampot: by utegute, Views[169]
         		 In Phnom Penh we had this drinking-place close to our hotel. Everybody there so happy when we passed by (which happened at least 5 times a day), waving and asking questions. In the evenings we sat there, learning khmer and listening to storys from the tuc-tuc-driver, a real nice guy!: by utegute, Views[236]
     
    Many nice old houses in Phnom Penh. Pretty well-kept too..: by utegute, Views[411]
         		 Kids begging for money at the killing fields. First they came with questions in a chorus
         		 The golden palace is very nice. So are the surroundings, a big garden, very organized and clean, lots of stupas as graves to different people who lived in the palace.: by utegute, Views[321]
         		 The golden palace in Phnom Penh. The king lives there (nowadays the sun of the last God-king Sihanouk, Sihonouk himself is in the hospital in China, old man).: by utegute, Views[1042]
         		 view on the river in Phnom Penh: by utegute, Views[244]
     
    modern too..: by utegute, Views[250]
         		 nice and clean Phnom Penh: by utegute, Views[237]
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