Seen last week at Chow lounge on the riverfront here in Phnom Penh. The upcoming US mid-term elections are on the minds of some American...

Ya-Mao is the central personage of a legend local to Sihanoukville and much of the Cambodian coast. She is a neak-ta , a powerful ancestor ...

Along Road #33 between Kampot and Kep In the last month I've had to make two complete driving loops from Phnom Penh, across southe...

Kampot City, Cambodia

As many new drivers, especially foreign drivers discover the hard way, it is illegal in Cambodia to drive with headlights on during the day....

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...