Appeals at Angkor Due in large part to aforementioned strife, Cambodia has more than its share of the world's impoverished, orphaned, destitute, and malnourished. Combine these circumstances with truckloads of white people coming to see what must surely be one of the ancient wonders of the world, and you end up with a lot of begging. The outside of the temples of Angkor Wat (and, my god, are there a lot of temples) are filled with kids selling all number of...

To begin to understand Cambodia you must first face its tragic, horrific, recent past Brief though probably inadequate overview of recent Cambodian history Post-colonial Cambodia saw a military coup of King Sihanouk in 1970 (with 'tacit US consent'...oh yes, the hands of the US aren't clean in this story either) and Sihanouk* fled to Beijing setting up an exile government aligned with a revolutionary group known as Khmer Rouge, ostensibly to support the overt...