Well, Vietnam’s Internet is no faster, at least so far as we’ve found, than Cambodia’s. Here’s a few notes taken on the Mekong, during a speedboat/ferry ride we shared with an Scottish expert in unexploded bombs and an American English teacher working for the Cambodia War Crimes Tribunal in Phnom Penh — that’s more evidence [...]
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June 5, 2008
The family at Angkor Wat
Here we are in Angkor Wat, agnostics, or atheists or not-yet-knowers all, happy as can be in the world’s largest religious building.
Dante and Langston in one of two libraries on either side of the raised walkway down which one strolls in wonder as Angkor Wat, and its five, brilliantly symmetrical stupa-topped towers, looms larger and larger.
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June 5, 2008
I ate…
Pictures will follow to prove it — but tonight at dinner I (accidentally) ordered fried beef with ants. KK told me, but I disagreed, that my inquiry about a particular menu item had, in fact, been taken as an order. She was, as she generally is, correct. The first dish to arrive was fried beef [...]
June 1, 2008
In the land of the temples
Made it to Siem Reap today. Apparently Cambodia has more temples than any other country in Southeast Asia and Angkor Wat is the granddaddy of them all. Actually, we haven’t seen the temples yet, because we arrived this morning from Singapore on a flight that got in at 7 a.m. and spent the day sort [...]
