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Souvenir shopping has been on the list of every foreign visitor to Siem Reap since 1923 when Frenchman Andre Malraux notoriously slashed and dashed with Khmer heads from Angkor Wat. Thankfully such plunder is no..."
The Best Travel Writing About Cambodia
In addition to our collection of fabulous hotels - and their equally fabulous reviews - Travel Intelligence is built upon some of the finest travel writing on the web. So, to find a range of travel writing about Cambodia and general Cambodia travel tips, you just need to browse the selection of travel articles below...
Articles about Cambodia
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Shopping Guide for Angkor Wat
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Cynthia Rosenfeld
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Cambodia
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Siem Reap Region
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Siem Reap
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Shopping in Asia for a Good Cause
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Cynthia Rosenfeld
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Cambodia
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Phnom Penh Region
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Phnom Penh
"Wandering the dusty streets of Phnom Penh in the mid-1990s, I stumbled upon a souvenir shop that would have gone unnoticed were it not for the hand-written sign in its cracked window. All items handcrafted by Khmer rouge victims, it read. That..."
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Cambodian Dance
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Lucretia Stewart
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Cambodia
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Phnom Penh Region
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Phnom Penh
"Princess Buppha Devi was twenty-three when she danced for General de Gaulle on the terrace in front of Angkor Wat. That was over thirty years ago, in 1966, before the Vietnam War and the Cambodian holocaust, when Cambodia was a very different place..."
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Round the World 11
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Sarah Anderson
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Cambodia
"It was a wonderful surprise to wake up on the banks of the Mekong with a completely different feel. We had arrived by night at the Tohsang Ubon Hotel having flown to Ubonratchathani from Bangkok. Breakfast was on the terrace and looked down over..."
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Round the World 12
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Sarah Anderson
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Cambodia
"By the end of next week I shall be back in England. So much has happened in the last three months yet I'm no closer to knowing what I want to do next with my life. I had hoped I would bump into something or someone that would help give me some..."
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The Temples of Angkor
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Julie Miller
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Cambodia
"Sunrise at Angkor Wat. A small crowd has gathered on the banks of the two reflective pools, cameras poised, silent and contemplative. Even in the pre-dawn gloom, the massive structure rising before us commands reverence, its spiritual..."
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The Land Mine Museum, Siem Reap, Cambodia
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Susan Miles
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Cambodia
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Siem Reap Region
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Siem Reap
"My dear friend Paul sums it up best, “we humans do terrible things to one another”. How these words rang loud and clear as I wondered from display to display at the Land Mine Museum in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The simple sign at the..."
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Lotus Season
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Lucretia Stewart
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Cambodia
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Phnom Penh Region
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Phnom Penh
"The day before I arrived in Phnom Penh, there was an attack outside the National Assembly. Four grenades had been thrown into a demonstration organized by the Khmer Nation Party; the demonstrators were protesting against judicial corruption. As my..."
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Cambodia
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Lucretia Stewart
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Cambodia
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Phnom Penh Region
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Phnom Penh
"In his memoir, River of Time, Jon Swain recalls, from the early months of 1975, a group of journalists in Phnom Penh sitting round the pool of the Hôtel le Phnom and singing a ditty composed by James Fenton, who was then writing for the New..."
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Cambodian Culture & The Criminal Element
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Anthony Healy
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Cambodia
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Phnom Penh Region
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Phnom Penh
"How culpable are tourists in the looting of Cambodian temples? A few weeks ago I attended a cocktail party in Hong Kong. On a small wooden pedestal in the sitting room was a stone carving of the head of Buddha. Our hostess informed us that it was..."
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