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Cambodia: Just Over That Bridge

A Bridge and the Rest of Cambodia By Manesha Pereira Even in the daylight, there was nothing spectacular about that bridge. Metal serpents curved and caressed each other to form regular neat triangles on opposing ends. At its foot stood six cylindrical cans filled to the brim with cement and gravel. Apparently, travelers were not…

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Cambodia’s Bonn Om Touk Festival

A River Runs Through It: Cambodia’s Splashy Bonn Om Touk Festival By Dagmar Busshoff Fluttering flags embroider the waterfront. Laughing workmen carry hundreds of strings of whitCambe mini-lights to drape every imaginable surface along the quay. The atmosphere is as electrifying as the lights, though, for I can feel the buzz of excitement in the…

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Crab and pepper. Kep, Cambodia

A Taste of Cambodia’s Cuisine

By Darrin DuFord Hidden among Apsaras and multi-armed Vishnus on the eight-hundred-year-old temple walls of Angkor are carvings of cooks holding skewered fish over a fire. That’s right, barbecues side by side with celestial maidens and gods. Cambodia has carried its penchant for barbecue and other glorious forms of cooking through dark times, enduring war…

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