My Several Worlds

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April mornings in Cambodia get hot really fast. We were standing on a dusty road in Cambodia waiting for our hired car to arrive and take us from [...]

The National Palace Museum is a short walk from The Grand Palace just off Sithowath Quay in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The terracotta roofed museum is fashioned in a traditional Cambodian design and was built between 1917 and 1920. I particularly enjoyed spending time between exhibits in the garden courtyard of the complex.

I was [...]

A monument situated on the palace grounds.
Just a short walk from the lively river-side promenade of Sisowath Quay in the heart of Phnom Penh stands the lovely Royal Palace, or Preah Barom Reachea Vaeng Chaktomuk as the Khmers know it.
The palace was built in 1866 and has been occupied by the kings of [...]

After three days of scrambling over the ruins of Angkor’s ancient temples we set off on the next leg of our journey through Cambodia.
We decided to continue our journey through Cambodia by land, despite having a rather rough entry into the country at the Aranyaprathet/Poipet border crossing. Land borders always make the best travel stories. [...]

Craig Ferguson’s Photoessay on Angkor Wat deserves a post all to itself. I just dropped by and was treated to the best photos I’ve ever seen of Angkor Wat.
Honestly, his photography will take your breath away. Go check it out!

Perhaps it’s the time of day that lend the ruins hidden deep in this jungle a sense of transcendence. It might be the stillness of the jungle or the distant humming of insects. It’s so quiet, I can practically hear the vegetation growing around me. I lay my hands on a towering gentle giant. These [...]

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There are several ways to see Angkor Wat. Some people start small and work their way up to the colossal grand-daddy of them all, the megalithic structures of enigmatic Angkor Wat.
Others start big and work their way down through the smaller and no less beautiful and mysterious smaller temples in the giant [...]

 
With my three day pass to Angkor Wat.
It’s almost impossible to post pictures of Angkor Wat. There are millions of images of Angkor available on the web and none of them really do it any justice. Angkor is indescribable…but I’m going to give it a try.
The best part of the day to visit is definitely [...]

“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” - Alan Kneightley

Hand-carved boats sitting in storage.
Believe it or not, our first day in Siem Reap was not spent at the ruins of Angkor Wat. Whenever John and I embark [...]