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Cambodia Tears
It was the end of a Saturday on Ocheteaul Beach, and YuppieNomad and I sat on beach chairs next to low table, waiting for the sun to set. Vendors with grilled squid, salted prawns and fresh durian cried out for last calls.
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Life of Aki Ra
YuppieNomad gave me a leaflet to read yesterday on the bus ride from Siem Reap to Pnom Penh. She got it from the Landmine Museum set up by Aki Ra, an ex-Khmer Rouge soldier, ex-Vietnamese conscript, and an ex-UN worker. You can read his full story here, and I'
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Ants at Angkor
Tour groups makes traveling boring, lazy, and sterile. Tour guides can be informative, but they often follow a script and rarely do they know spontaneous information.
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Waiting for Angkor
We also found a driver to take us around the temple complexes over three days. We like him – he still has his baby fat and he's chill enough so that we negotiated down the price with little consequence.
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Cameo in Cambodia
Pleasant surprises are the norm in Laos, and maybe it's due to lowered expectations.
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Giving Al-laos-ance
Well, finding transportation is like embarking on a quest to find a lost relic. You have to have faith that a way exists, but you can't shake the feeling that maybe it's all a myth, shrouded in local lore and legend.
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Allowing Laos to Persist
Perhaps it's a confluence of things, a perfect storm of unfortunate conditions that perpetuate Laos' status as a panhandler nation.
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Center of Attention
The experiences have been varied, but they seem to further exaggerate my identity rather than to change or alter in any significant ways. I still have a penchant for naiveté, for childish humor, and for drama. I am traveling because it is an extension of who I am now, not who I will be.
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Fizz
One of my best moments so far have been five or six intermittent minutes on a sleeper bus from Kunming to Jinghong.
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Parked in Pakse
It's supposed to be the last major city in southern Lao, but Pakse feels more like a run-down beach town during winter break. The shops are shuttered – all five of them – and the local market seems to only carry badly sewn clothes, shampoo, and questionable electronics.
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Shout Outs
A quick shout out to Beatnuttie, Kountrytime and P-Noogs. Thanks for keeping me going. You guys are awesome. If there's anything you want me to be on the look out for, just pop me a line at gmail. ooh i got a shout out! :) wahoo~ yay. Posted by:
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Photos Bonanza
Heading to Cambodia after a last week in Laos. I'm hearing horror stories about the roads from the Cambodian border to Angkor Wat, so I may just chicken out and take a flight.