Posted in tourism on May 23rd, 2019
From VICE magazine, a video about how the beach in Cambodia is a great, exotic place to take drugs.
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Video: "My first acid trip was with strangers in Cambodia"
This is an excellent animated true story narrated by a woman who talks about the first time she took ...
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It's often a challenge for me to parse UK newspapers, unlike USA media many don't maintain even a pretense of objectivity. Reading the first sentence of this article by The Mirror it would sound dire.
"Poor Sombo has been forced to pound the pavements for 30 years after being captured and ...
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Posted in cambodia, tourism on Nov 18th, 2010
There was simply no WAY I was going to spend time in Ratanakiri without getting a little Elephant Time in. My local friends were only too keen to oblige. On the way we passed through a plantation of trees bearing sap used to make rubber. And then boom, we're hanging ...
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An iridescent green jewel surrounded by trees. Ahhh.
Particularly interesting: on the path around the lake is a small tourist centre. Cultural tourism by Cambodians largely targeted AT ethnic Khmers. It's always interesting to see how a country is internally represented to its own people - i.e. the Cambodian Cultural Village. ...
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A lot of talk about print media lately. The Phnom Penh Post has gone daily. The Advisor is 'not dead, just resting', and The Mekong Times has come to a halt. Some of my friends were complaining about the lack of English language reading matter.
But hey, there are ...
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