When planning my trip to Southeast Asia, I decided to head to Cambodia before Vietnam in large part because, as an American, I had to apply for a visa before I traveled to the latter country. I didn’t want to go to the expense and trouble of sending off my passport to the Vietnamese embassy [...]

Cambodia is raw, undeveloped, wild and real. Its rural villages and the small towns it calls cities hum along undisturbed alongside its far more modern neighbors of Thailand and Vietnam. It seems odd to me that this Asian jungle country’s most famous attraction is not simply the land itself, in which three million people were [...]

Kampot, Cambodia is going to stick with me forever. I thoroughly adored this tiny town during the three weeks I was staked out in it and, now that it’s behind me, my affection has far from faded. In the middle of absolutely nowhere whatsoever, Kampot harbors pure rural Cambodian life. Little Kampot is already an [...]

I usually plant myself whereever I travel for long periods of time. As such, I’ve been in the small town of Kampot, Cambodia for many, many days now. If you’ve ever been to Kampot, you’ll realize that if you stick around for even a few hours it’s inevitable that you’ll get to know this little [...]

This is the true tale of my first few hours in Cambodia. I have never seen anything so brutal in my life. May I never again. The journey from Phnom Penh to the little town of Kampot near the southern border of Cambodia takes me down a long, straight dirt road. Heading away from the [...]