Tag Archives: Cambodia

The Killing Fields: The Shooting of Gabrielle Giffords and Others
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After 35 years, the first Khmer Rouge mass murderer has been convicted in Cambodia. We’ve all heard of the killing fields of Cambodia, when the Khmer Rouge murdered between one and two million other Cambodians. It was one of the worst periods of mass murder in history. It was the Chinese Cultural Revolution gone crazy. The Khmer Rouge, in attempting to bring about an agrarian utopian society, sought out and murdered anyone with an education, and anyone associated with them. Read the rest of this article…

Cambodian Disaster: Sad Event For A Fine People
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So sad to hear of the crowd disaster and all the deaths in Cambodia. In our three weeks or so in the country we found the people to be hard working, cheerful and generally happy despite sometimes difficult living conditions. Like most Southeast Asians, they love their festivals, and the Water Festival is most beloved. This is an unusual occurrence and should not deter anyone from visiting this wonderful country. We’d go back in a minute. เทศกาลน้ำ Read the rest of this article…

Living on the Mekong in Cambodia: Where do you live?
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The family on this, approximately 25 long by four feet wide boat, are fishing the Mekong river in Cambodia. They fish from early morning to dark daily. They will find a, hopefully safe, place to tie up for the night. The boat is their home, their only home. The eat, sleep, cook, make love, give birth and die there. The only time they touch land is to sell their fish. In some places buyers come to the river. There are many such boats on the Mekong, in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Sometimes a government tries to take them from the river, but they return. Read the rest of this article…

Shangri-la Posts In Reading Order
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Bob and Claire Rogers have moved their Shangri-la, 2009 Asian Adventure blogs to a First to Last blog format. Relive their adventures from Tibetan China through Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. Read the rest of this article…

To Your Adventurous 2010
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Before we began our Asian tandem bicycle adventure, I read Confucian quotes and often couldn’t relate. This I chalked up to lack of depth on my part, and perhaps the enigmatic nature of Eastern thought. After encountering many times the simplicity, and discomfort, he describes, I now understand. Read the rest of this article…

Remembering Shangri-la
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Bob and Claire Rogers’ video wrap-up of their adventurous tandem bicycle journey from Tibet to Thailand via Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. Rescued from freezing by Tibetans, taken in by a village when they were lost in the Lao jungle. Read the rest of this article…

Lucky’s Blog: Monkey Business
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Lucky the rescued stuffed panda is almost grabbed by a monkey in Cambodia. Lucky is traveling with Bob and Claire Rogers on their tandem bicycle tour of SE Asia.

There are some funny things in the jungle. I don’t know what this thing was about. Bob stop him from grab me. I was scared. I don’t care to be used as a model for Bob’s camera thing. But this time I think I was got carried away to some tree and ate. I don’t want to be ate. I not taste good anyway. Read the rest of this article…