Tag: Siem Reap
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What’s a Wat?
Read more: What’s a Wat?Imagine a place frozen in time, with mysterious faces looking out at you from the rock. Sound creepy? What if you could find the most divine sculptures and bas relief carvings right out in the open, not behind glass, and could practically reach out and touch any one of them (though you should not!). This…
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A Night at the Cambodian Circus!
Read more: A Night at the Cambodian Circus!Cambodia is famous for their circus performers. It’s not the usual circus with animals and clowns – but rather more like Cirque de Soleil with acrobats and amazing use of the body. As Oliver mentioned in his Siem Reap post, this country is still recovering and rebuilding from its tragic past. Many of its children lived…
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Asia’s Beautiful Flower
Read more: Asia’s Beautiful FlowerThe lotus is an aquatic perennial that can be found throughout Asia. The seeds of the flower can last a long time – in some cases over 1000 years! We have seen this exquisite flower throughout our Asian explorations . The beautiful bloom is said to represent elegance, beauty, perfection, purity and grace and is…
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Fear Factor Cambodian Style!
Read more: Fear Factor Cambodian Style!What creeps, crawls and tastes delicious? Bugs of course! During the Cambodian civil war, there were food shortages and people were starving to death. Many were forced to look for alternative food sources like bugs in order to survive. The bugs were often eaten alive, because lighting a fire could reveal one’s location to the enemy.…
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Siem Reap – More than just Temples!
Read more: Siem Reap – More than just Temples!It may sound weird, but nine months into our RTW trip and we are running out of time! After an “unplanned extension” in Hoi An, Vietnam, we actually discussed whether to visit Cambodia, or to bypass it “until next time”. In the end we decided that since we were in the region we should visit…