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The Angkor Wat temple and surrounding ruins in the Angkor national park contain hundreds of years of history. When visiting the temples you come to expect that you will see the moss covered stones, broken statues, fallen debris and dirt tracks covered in footprints. It doesn’t occur to you that the temples would be filled with wooden frames, steel reinforcement or tarpaulin to ruin not only your photos but your natural experience.
When visiting the temples a year ago I got the feeling of what it might be like in its …

I’ve come to expect scams from locals but westerners are meant to be on our side, countering the evil corruption not playing the game the Khmer way. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

As we learn through Diana Saw, owner operator of Bloom Guesthouse and Bloom bag store, Siem Reap, enough is enough!

In the beginning it can be difficult to appreciate why hiring an editor makes excellent sense for your business. Even if you are fluent in English and you’ve been writing and speaking English for many years, an editor can see your work in a new way that enhances your business.

The Cambodia that my African partner and his friends live in is a very different Cambodia than for me or my western colleagues. They must overcome phenomenal injustices just to survive here each day. This is an extremely difficult topic that I’ve wanted to address for a long time but have found it hard because Cambodia, like most countries in the world, has two sides to it. I’m in the middle of both where I can see the positive attributes to living here as a westerner and the negative as an African.