Tonle Sap Lake

Tonle Sap Lake is the largest lake in Asia and one of the most important biodiversity sites in the world.  At its height, the ancient Angkor Kingdom used its riches to support the largest human population on the planet in its day.  Centuries later, the Khmer people...

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Learning a Lost Art in Siem Reap/Angkor Wat

Cambodia has a rich and varied musical tradition.  Though much of that tradition was lost in our civil war, those masters of our native instruments who survived are now passing on their expertise to the younger generation.  I am very lucky that some of these musical...

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Phnom Penh City

Phnom Penh city takes the name form the present Wat Phnom or Hill temple.Legend has it that in 1372 ,an old nun named Penh went to fetch the water in the Mekong river and found a dead koki tree floating down the stream .Inside the hole of the dead koki tree contained...

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Cambodia History

The good, the bad and the ugly is the simple way to sum up Cambodian history. Things were good in the early years, culminating in the vast Angkor empire, unrivalled in the region during four centuries of dominance. Then the bad set in, from the 13th century, as ascendant...

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