Caitlin had the incredible idea that we should spoil ourselves and move over to a fancy hotel with a spa for the last two nights of our trip. She was actually wonderfully kind and gifted me one of those nights as a start-of-grad-school present! After nearly five weeks of sleeping in hostels, homestays, and cheap …
Tonle Sap is the largest lake in Southeast Asia and is home to a number of floating villages. Like much of Cambodian history, the events leading to the villages being formed here are not a happy tale. People of Vietnamese descent in Cambodia were deported to Vietnam during the Khmer Rouge's reign. Because of this, …
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On Wednesday, Caitlin and I planned our day around watching the sunset from the Pre Rup temple in Angkor Park. We wanted a second day of exploring the temples in the park first, but we didn't want to exhaust ourselves to the extent that we did on Monday. Because of this, we went for a …
Today, Caitlin and I took a short day trip to see the sights at Phnom Kulen National Park. This park is about an hour and a half away from Siem Reap's town center over some very rough roads (I was actually told not to go there by my hotel concierge because it's so rough), and …
Today, I stepped foot in one of the places I've been dreaming of seeing for years: Angkor Archaeological Park! This UNESCO Heritage Site contains the remains of a number of the capitals of the Khmer Empire from the 9th through the 15th centuries. This was actually the largest pre-industrial city in the world! I've drooled …
Caitlin's flight got in at 9:30 this morning, and I went along with the hotel tuk-tuk driver to pick her up. Once she'd settled into the hotel, we took a trip into the city to check out the Old Market. This was a covered market selling everything from clothes to souvenirs to food to kitchen …
Journeying Jasmine 