The last few days we spent in Phnom Penh, the capitol city of Cambodia.Our time in Phnom Penh was a mix of relaxing downtime and troubling experiences. On Monday, Christina and I visited the Choeng Ek Genocidal Center, otherwise known as the Killing Fields memorial site.Approximately 17,000 people were executed and buried at this site during the reign of the Khmer Rouge between mid-1975 and December 1978. As a point of reference for Americans, many historians att...

After a week in Laos, we flew to Siem Reap, Cambodia, the town outside of Angkor Wat.We expected Angkor Wat and the other Angkor temples to be incredible - it is considered one of the historical wonders of the world, after all.But the Angkor temples far surpassed either of our expectations.We watched sunset the first night from the steps of one of the temples and we both felt a bit overwhelmed by the number of tourists and the heat (much hotter than Thailand or L...