After surviving the violent past of Pol Pot”s Khmer Rouge regime, war and political instability, Cambodia is slowly becoming a top destination. It is a land of contrasts, scarred with a painful past, and still pained by corruption and crime. Yet the people and the culture is one that is unique world wide, and while visitors here are unable to put into words exactly why it is so enchanting, it keeps them coming back to experience more of the same.
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
In the mid-19th Century the French explorer Henry Mouhot was sitting in a hut in the thick jungle of central Cambodia when he wrote the following lines:
After surviving the violent past of Pol Pot”s Khmer Rouge regime, war and political instability, Cambodia is slowly becoming a top destination. It is a land of contrasts, scarred with a painful past, and still pained by corruption and crime. Yet the people and the culture is one that is unique world wide, and while visitors here are unable to put into words exactly why it is so enchanting, it keeps them coming back to experience more of the same.
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