Kampong Trach, Kampot province, Cambodia

The Big Crab Monument I like Kep. The place is dullsville, but a pleasant dullsville, good for reading books, watching sunsets, riding th...

Skyscrapers rise along Monivong Blvd., two of several under construction and more planned, threatening to transform Phnom Penh from a quain...

Cambodia Daily, Sept 21, 2010, page 24 In the Cambodia Daily newspaper, foreigners who have been caught having sex with a minor child in...

By comparison to most Cambodian provincial capitals, many with histories counted in the centuries, Sihanoukville is a very new city. Nothing...

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Sihanoukville, Cambodia. Monsoon season. No photoshopping here. This lava-like sky is exactly how the sunset appeared both to the camera ...

The Angelina Jolie Tree (ugh!) Farang - 'Farang' is not a word general to Southeast Asia. It is a Thai word. Southeast Asia cont...

Kep, Cambodia

Kampot, Cambodia

Police lead girls wearing masks to van This afternoon I witnessed a brothel bust here in Phnom Penh. Just happened across it as I walked...

Surviving Cambodia (as a long-term expat) requires, if nothing else, self-discipline . Cambodia is a free country in the clearest and rawe...

Rain Originally drawn in 1998 here in Cambodia by Dutch artist Arijan (Aryan) Jansonius, inspired by the rainy season in Phnom Penh or Sih...

Some friends of the family are in town from Nha Trang Vietnam doing the tourist thing here in Cambodia. Their first time here. Just a three ...

On first sight the bar is just about as plain as plain can be. On second sight too. A shoebox of a place, deep and narrow. Simple wooden b...

Six on a moto at the corner of Street 182 and Street 107 in front of the Capitol Guesthouse in Phnom Penh. Not a wholly unusual sight in th...

Cambodian dogs look both ways before crossing the street. Really. They also get out of the road when honk your horn. I have a vision...of ...

Back in late 2009, tension between Thailand’s Red Shirt faction and the Thai government was building dramatically, as were tensions between ...

Monks walk on Street 19, behind the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh.

Touristus Touristus The Fat Bottomed Watcherbird , a.k.a. the Tourist: ( Touristus Touristus ) A plump, colorful, non-intrusive species kn...

Ministry of Tourism banner, Monivong Blvd, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

We (my family and I) just returned to Cambodia last week from our annual family trip to the US. We did the usual - three weeks in the States...

Why did the chicken cross the road? Because somebody broke its legs and tied it to the handlebars of a motorcycle on its way to market. ...

Me, with fresh coining bruises As a rule I am deeply skeptical of traditional Southeast Asian forms of medicine and, given the option, wi...

(The following is a C&P compilation of some of the main points I have made in debating the orphanage tourism/voluntourism issue on vario...

From its inception until about a month ago I considered twitter an all but useless frivolity, good only for bored housewives and self-obses...