Volunteering at Cambodia Children’s Painting Project Up date It is another wet, windy and stormy day here in Sihanoukville. There is the constant crashing of waves on the beach and one could even take advantage of the waves for a little …
Archive for September, 2008
Our two weeks of volunteering in Siem Reap, Cambodia are about to come to a close. There’s so much to say about this country and this experience, but internet time is limited. Soon we have to head back to the orphanage for our last …
Arriving as a location scout for Tomb Raider – the movie that put Angkor back on the tourist map – Lonely Planet’s Nick Ray knows his Siem Reap – by Peter Olszewski, Phnom Penh Post The Siem Reap-Angkor complex has notched up another …
Arriving as a location scout for Tomb Raider – the movie that put Angkor back on the tourist map – Lonely Planet’s Nick Ray knows his Siem Reap – by Peter Olszewski, Phnom Penh Post The Siem Reap-Angkor complex has notched up another …
Arriving as a location scout for Tomb Raider – the movie that put Angkor back on the tourist map – Lonely Planet’s Nick Ray knows his Siem Reap – by Peter Olszewski, Phnom Penh Post The Siem Reap-Angkor complex has notched up another …
… luxury dream to the few members of the local elite and foreign community eager to test the waters of a property market that appears to be doing surprisingly well, despite the ever-present reminders of Cambodia’s Third World poverty . …
I don’t like Sihanoukville . Cambodia’s boomtown may have nice beaches, but the juxtaposition of obnoxious tourists with grasping poverty, set against a backdrop of fevered development, isn’t conducive to relaxation. …
Cambodia Cares, does care, wants to care, will care given the chance. Poverty, misfortune and the needy populate our world and flicker in and out of our lives. From the latest disaster on the news to the charity shops that line the streets. Yet, sometimes our own lives can consume the needs of others and [...]