Podcasts about Battambang

Camboya conmemora los 50 años de la toma de Pnom Penh por parte de los Jemeres Rojos. El 17 de abril de 1975 iniciaba lo que el régimen de Pol Pot llamó "el año cero", el punto de partida de una era de persecución, torturas y trabajos forzados que cobró la vida de un cuarto de la población camboyana. Medio siglo después, la sociedad camboyana sigue reconstruyéndose. Muy pocos sobrevivieron al centro S-21, también conocido como la prisión de Tuol Sleng, una escuela convertida en centro de tortura. Cuando llegó el ejército de liberación en enero de 1979, solo 12 personas fueron encontradas con vida, incluidos cuatro niños, de los 20.000 prisioneros.Norng Chan Phat es uno de ellos. Tenía 8 años cuando a su madre, a su hermano y a él, los arrestaron y llevaron a la S-21."Se abrió la puerta y aparecieron a cada lado de la entrada cuatro o cinco hombres armados. Ordenaron gritando a mi madre que bajara del camión. Estaba muy enferma en ese momento y no podía caminar rápido. Entonces, la empujaron al suelo. Me aterrorizó lo que veía", cuenta a RFI.Luego empezaron los interrogatorios. "Mi madre no entendía las preguntas, entonces comenzaron a torturarla, a darle patadas frente a mis ojos. Corrí hacia ella y la abracé para protegerla, pero me dieron patadas en la espalda. Cinco o seis años después, en el orfanato donde estaba, mi espalda seguía doliéndome", recuerda Norng, quien tiene ahora 55 años.Fue uno de los pocos sobrevivientes del régimen genocida en haber presentado una demanda contra los antiguos líderes de los Jemeres Rojos. En 2009, testificó en su juicio. El Tribunal especial de Camboya, activo desde 2006, solo ha condenado a tres dirigentes, incluido a Kaing Guek Eav (alias Duch), quien controlaba la prisión de Tuol Sleng."El resultado del juicio no me dejó plenamente satisfecho, pero el veredicto permitió que mi madre descansara en paz. Su alma pudo dejar este lugar y reencarnarse en una nueva vida, según la creencia budista. Era necesario que se hiciera justicia para mi madre. De lo contrario, su alma habría permanecido encerrada aquí, esperando desde la ventana de su celda obtener justicia", asegura Norng.Han pasado 50 años, pero el trauma psicológico sigue muy presente, debido a la extrema violencia que sufrieron víctimas como Norng. El régimen de los Jemeres Rojos duró cuatro años, hasta su caída cuando las tropas de Vietnam se tomaron Camboya. Pero su política genocidaria se cree causó 2 millones de muertes, o sea un cuarto de la población total. Muchos sobrevivientes huyeron."El que sabía era castigado"El obispo español Kike Figaredo llegó a Camboya en los años 80 tras haber trabajado con los refugiados."Como misionero, los ayudaba a aprender un oficion, de carpintería o mecánica. Que su vida se cargara de sentido, que tenía sentido seguir adelante", dice al micrófono de RFI. "Tengo un amigo que tenía 15 años durante el régimen. Recuerda que para los Jemeres Rojos la vida humana no tenía ningún valor". Lo que más lo impactó al llegar a Camboya después de la caída de Pol Pot fueron las ansias de los jóvenes de aprender. "Su vida se quedó truncada y lo que buscaban eran oportunidades para estudiar y tener libros, porque durante esa experiencia horrible todo aquel que sabía era castigado". Monseñor Figaredo fundó en Camboya la ONG Sauce. Lo apodan el “obispo de las sillas de ruedas” por su trabajo proporcionando movilidad a miles de mutilados del conflicto. Camboya cuenta 40.000 amputados y ha batidos récords en accidentes de minas antipersona. 30 años de conflicto han convertido el país en un campo de minas a cielo abierto."Vemos que muchas personas con discapacidad incluso están falleciendo a edades tempranas, a los 50 o 60 años, porque su cuerpo está destrozado. Camboya es un país llano y se inunda con facilidad, entonces las minas corren de un sitio para otro. Fueron colocadas desde los años 70 hasta el año 1998", detalla Figaredo. Hoy en día destaca que "ahora Camboya es líder en desminaje y exporta equipos al mundo entero".Las ONGs camboyanas quieren poner fin definitivo a las minas antipersonas este 2025, en el 50 aniversario de la caída de Pnom Penh. "Estamos ahí pronto", asegura el obispo de Battambang.

Dans cet épisode, nous vous emmenons au Cambodge.Pays au riche héritage culturel et historique, le Cambodge est célèbre pour son site emblématique d'Angkor Wat, sa capitale emblématique Phnom Penh, ses plages de Sihanoukville et ses îles tropicales voisines qui séduisent par leur beauté naturelle.Que faire au Cambodge ?Siem ReapCommencez votre [circuit au Cambodge: https://www.selectour.com/cambodge/circuit], par plusieurs jours dans la ville de Siem Rep, à faire absolument durant votre voyage au Cambodge.Partez à la découverte des villages flottants, visitez la Ferme de la Soie à Siem Reap et découvrez les senteurs d'Angkor.Profitez-en pour aller également faire un tour du marché de Siem Reap.Explorez les mythiques temples de Siem Reap, avec Angkor Wat (le plus grand et le mieux conservé), le Temple de Bayon (des tours aux quatre visages représentant un Bouddha) et le Temple de Ta Prohm (rendu célèbre par le film Tomb Raider).BattambangQue faire au Cambodge après Siem Reap ?À Battambang, nous vous proposons la visite d'une maison traditionnelle, d'une pagode, de villages typiques. On peut apercevoir des nuées de chauves-souris dans les arbres à certains endroits.Ensuite, partez pour une expérience inédite à faire au Cambodge, il s'agit du Bamboo Train. Il trouve ses racines dans les années sombres de la guerre civile cambodgienne, lorsque les voies ferrées du pays ont été détruites. Face à ce défi, les habitants locaux ont créé de manière improvisée une solution ingénieuse : une plateforme en bambou posée sur des roues en métal, propulsée par un petit moteur à essence.Phnom PenhPour la suite de notre circuit au Cambodge, faire une visite de la capitale est un classique à ne pas manquer.Dans la capitale cambodgienne, allez à la découverte de son magnifique Palais Royal et sa Pagode d'Argent. Profitez-en pour faire un tour dans le Musée National à l'édifice très original.Sihanoukville et les îles voisinesNotre circuit sur que faire au Cambodge touche bientôt à fin, mais il vous sera impossible de partir sans faire un arrêt à Sihanoukville et les îles avoisinantes.Ville portuaire du Sud du Cambodge, Sihanoukville est l'unique port maritime en eau profonde du pays.Sihanoukville est la porte vers les îles paradisiaques comme Kho Rong et Kho Rong Samloem.Un voyage qui vaut le détour, puisque vous arriverez sur une île paradisiaque où la nature est préservée et où les paysages sont époustouflants.Pourquoi voyager au Cambodge ?Malgré un passé difficile, le Cambodge se relève et affirme sa beauté à des touristes plus nombreux chaque année. Entre traditions et modernité, vous découvrirez des monuments millénaires et une population des plus accueillantes.Pays du sourire, le Cambodge est un pays attachant, chaleureux et généreux qui ne vous laissera pas indifférent.Si vous souhaitez en savoir plus sur la destination et, pourquoi pas, préparer votre prochain [circuit au Cambodge: https://www.selectour.com/cambodge/circuit], n'hésitez pas à faire appel à nos [experts: https://www.selectour.com/agent/recherche?postalCode=&city=&favoriteDestination=KH&page=1] !À bientôt dans le cockpit !Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

CEO & Co-Founder Stephanie Freed joins LAB the Podcast to talk about Rapha's work to end the trafficking and sexual abuse of children — one child, one family, and one community at a time. Rapha was founded in 2003, beginning with the Survivor Care program for underage female survivors of trafficking and sexual exploitation in Battambang, Cambodia. Rapha now serves child survivors in Cambodia, Thailand, Haiti and the US through residential and non-residential and therapeutic programming, which is administered by an international team of more than 380 professionals. Join us for the conversation and visit  to learn more about how you can pray for and partner with Rapha. RaphaLearn more about V3Support the show

Released this week, the final film in our Shifting Landscapes documentary film series, Taste of the Land, tells the story of Cambodian-American filmmaker Kalyanee Mam's search for a spiritual relationship with her homeland. In this companion essay by Kalyanee, she delves deeper into her experiences of cheate—the Khmer word for “taste”—and how she came to understand that to truly know the essence of the land, one must know its taste. Tracing her life back to its very beginnings, she shares her first “land-taste”—the sweet flavor of Battambang oranges—and the many tastes that came after that slowly deepened the yearning in her heart to truly know the soils, waters, mountains, people, and plants of Cambodia. As she reflects on the spiritual fallout of her family's severed relationship with their homeland, she also contemplates the essential connection that was kept alive through stories, language, and food shared by her parents.  Read the essay  Watch the feature film Taste of the Land, by Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, the fourth in our four-part Shifting Landscapes documentary film series. Photo by Jeremy Seifert. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The subject tonight is Love And for tomorrow night as well, As a matter of fact I know of no better topic For us to discuss Until we all Die! - Hafiz Crisis, war, injustice, and violence have a certain logic—and social change processes working to address these challenges carry a similar, reactionary logic. How can love help us to step out of the perceived reality of “what is possible” in building peace during conflict? Turning points in conflicts and crises are often mysterious, require acts of enormous creativity, and a willingness to risk. Social change is an artistic act, mobilizing love and prophetic imagination–and it requires us to step into the mystery of the unknown that lies beyond the far too familiar landscape of violence. In this series, join Host Serena Bian in speaking with three people who bear witness to the best and worst of humanity, holding a courageous moral imagination. Working and witnessing the front lines of injustice, war, climate change, these peacebuilders, mystics, storytellers hold space for the miraculous to emerge, refusing to be bound by a perceived reality of “what is possible.” Events in the series Monday, April 29 | Deepa Patel Weds, May 29 | Aljosie Aldrich Harding Tues, June 25 | Kalyanee Mam View Kalyanee's film “Lost World” (an excerpt is featured in this podcast) at: https://emergencemagazine.org/feature/lost-world/ Kalyanee Mam Born in Battambang, Cambodia, during the Khmer Rouge regime, which claimed the lives of over 2 million people, Kalyanee and her family were displaced from both their land and their home. Kalyanee has spent most of her life trying to understand the root cause of war, destruction, and displacement and how we can return home again. After returning to Cambodia and spending years living with families in the forests, on the Tonle Sap, and in the countryside, she understands how intimately connected their way of life is to the land, forests, and water and the neak ta or land and water spirits that protect them. Her debut documentary feature, A River Changes Course, won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and the Golden Gate Award for Best Feature Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Her other works include the documentary shorts Lost World, Fight for Areng Valley, Between Earth & Sky, and Cries of Our Ancestors. She has also worked as a cinematographer and associate producer on the 2011 Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job. She is currently working on a new feature documentary, The Fire and the Bird's Nest. Serena Bian Serena is pursuing a life that remains attentive to the tenderness of a snail's soft body and reverent to the miracle of its spiraled shell. Working with U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, Serena serves as a Special Advisor and brings a spiritual and systemic understanding to the public health crisis of loneliness and isolation. As a chaplain-in-training, Serena is pursuing questions of how we chaplain the end of extractive systems that isolate communities from themselves and one another. She is involved with multi-generational, multi-spiritual communities like the Nuns and Nones, devoted to courage, peacebuilding, and love. She participates on the Board of Commonweal and CoGenerate. #newschoolcommonweal #commonweal #interfaith #peacebuilding #peace

On this week's episode, host Stephen Scourfield chats to Penny Thomas and Mogens Johansen about one of their favourite places in South-East Asia: Cambodia. Join the team as they share personal stories from their travels around Cambodia, highlighting the country's rich culture, history and cuisine. Penny tells us about a seven-day food tour she recently did with Intrepid Travel that involved sampling plenty of local delicacies -- including rat! We also hear from Mogens who describes what it was like to stay in the heart of the Cardamon Forest at a luxury glamping resort. And, at the end of the show, we've included an interview Penny recorded in Battambang with a local guide named Sambat who grew up in Cambodia during the 1970s. Subscribe to The Pod Well Travelled where you get your podcasts — and share it to your family and friends. Sign up for eTravel via thewest.com.au/manage-email-preferences. It's our free digital edition of travel that gets delivered to your inbox once a week and is full of new stories, fresh podcast episodes, upcoming events and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"From Battambang to Taking the Stage in New York, Sydney & Montreal" to "Say versus Do in Sustainable Tourism" and "Backwards Steps in Domestic Tourism in ASEAN". Welcome to the third edition of our monthly mini-round-up of the key moments from recent podcast discussions and interviews. During May, Craig Dodge, Senior Director of Sales & Marketing at Phare, discusses the compelling journey of Cambodia's arts circus from a wartime refugee camp in Battambang to a theatre stage tour taking in New York, Sydney & Montreal. Plus, we discuss the backwards steps in incentivising and promoting domestic tourism in South East Asia since the pandemic, and Thailand's latest visa entry gambit. Plus, in which ASEAN country are 34% of travellers becoming "tired of hearing about climate change all the time"? Is the Say-Do gap in sustainable tourism shifting emphasis?

With a 5.0 TripAdvisor rating, Phare, the Cambodian Circus based in Siem Reap, must be doing something right.  We speak to Craig Dodge, their Senior Director of Sales and Marketing, about the journey this social enterprise has taken from humble beginnings in Battambang to shows in New York City. Along the way, we talk Cambodia's tourism recovery and the pull between positioning it as a mono destination vs part of a multi-country Southeast Asian itinerary. Lastly, we finish off with why Craig is such an advocate for Cambodian attractions and tour operators to get online. 

El gobierno español ha aprobado este martes un plan que contempla indemnizaciones a las víctimas de abusos en la Iglesia cuyos casos hayan prescrito, así como la celebración de un acto de Estado de reconocimiento a los afectados. Sin embargo, los obispos han manifestado duras críticas al plan gubernamental. En rueda de prensa posterior al consejo, el ministro de la Presidencia, Justicia y Relaciones con las Cortes, Félix Bolaños, afirmó que este plan busca reparar a las víctimas que “durante décadas han sido olvidadas y orilladas” y a las que “nadie prestó atención”. Para ello, el Gobierno contempla indemnizaciones económicas, informa la agencia estatal, y su intención es que la Iglesia contribuya a sufragarlo. Apenas un par de horas después, la Conferencia Episcopal Española, que preside monseñor Luis Argüello, hizo pública una nota en la que no acepta el plan del gobierno, en especial por tres razones fundamentales: porque no se pueden plantear unas medidas de reparación que, siguiendo el informe del Defensor del Pueblo, dejarían fuera a 9 de cada diez víctimas; porque el texto presentado parte de un juicio condenatorio de toda la Iglesia, realizado sin ningún tipo de garantía jurídica, lo que supone un señalamiento público y discriminatorio por parte del Estado; y, además, porque esta regulación cuestiona el principio de igualdad y de universalidad que debe tener todo proceso que afecta a derechos fundamentales. El Papa Francisco ha recibido recientemente en audiencia en la Sala Clementina a los participantes en la plenaria de la Pontificia Academia de Ciencias Sociales. En su discurso, lanzó un fuerte llamamiento a promover una “cultura de la inclusión integral” de las personas con discapacidad, superando la mentalidad utilitarista y discriminatoria de la “cultura del rechazo”. Aunque reconoció los progresos realizados en muchos países, Francisco denunció que en demasiadas partes del mundo las personas con discapacidad y sus familias siguen estando “aisladas y empujadas a los márgenes de la vida social”. Una situación que se da no solo en los países más pobres, donde la discapacidad “a menudo condena a la miseria”, sino también en contextos de mayor bienestar económico. La “cultura del rechazo”, para el Papa, es transversal y no tiene fronteras. Lleva a evaluar la vida solo sobre la base de “criterios utilitarios y funcionales”, olvidando la dignidad intrínseca de cada persona con discapacidad, “sujetos plenamente humanos, titulares de derechos y deberes”. Un aspecto especialmente insidioso de esta mentalidad es la tendencia a hacer que las personas con discapacidad se sientan “una carga para sí mismas y para sus seres queridos”. “La difusión de esta mentalidad transforma la cultura del descarte en cultura de la muerte”, añadió Francisco, recordando que “las personas ya no son sentidas como un valor primario que hay que respetar y proteger”. Los católicos camboyanos del Vicariato Apostólico de Phnom Penh se preparan para vivir el Jubileo de 2025. Omnes ha conversado con el padre Gianluca Tavola, misionero del Pontificio Instituto para las Misiones Extranjeras. Este misionero italiano, rector del seminario mayor de Phnom Penh y responsable del sector pastoral de tres pequeñas comunidades cristianas de la ciudad de Takhmao, situada al sur de la capital, subraya que el obispo del Vicariato ha querido vincular la celebración del Año de la Oración a una frase de la Madre Teresa de Calcuta: “El fruto del silencio es la oración; el fruto de la oración es la fe; el fruto de la fe es el amor; el fruto del amor es el servicio; el fruto del servicio es la paz”. Para el padre Gianluca Tavola, la convocatoria del Año de Oración y Silencio con vistas al Jubileo es una decisión providencial. Porque “la Iglesia en Camboya -que en la última década ha trabajado mucho por la evangelización y la profundización de la fe- necesita llegar a un tiempo de gracia como el Año Santo” con el aliento de la oración. En Camboya hay actualmente menos de 30.000 cristianos, en una población de un total de 16.000.000 de habitantes. La Iglesia en Camboya cuenta con un Vicariato Apostólico, el de Phnom Penh, y dos Prefecturas Apostólicas, las de Battambang y Kompong-Cham. Tras un periodo de dolor y opresión debido a guerras y regímenes, “la Iglesia camboyana renació en 1990”, recuerda Gianluca Tavola. Tras su reflexión en las audiencias pasadas sobre las cuatro virtudes cardinales –prudencia, justicia, fortaleza y templanza-, el Papa ha abordado este miércoles en su catequesis en la Plaza de San Pedro las tres virtudes teologales, la fe, la esperanza y la caridad, bajo el tema “La vida de la gracia según el Espíritu”. La lectura correspondió a la Carta de san Pablo a los Colosenses. El Pontífice manifestó que, junto a las cuatro virtudes cardinales, las tres virtudes teologales constituyen “un septenario” que se contrapone a los siete pecados capitales, y que, según el Catecismo de la Iglesia católica, “fundan, animan y caracterizan el obrar moral del cristiano”. Las virtudes teologales son “un antídoto contra la autosuficiencia” y contra el riesgo de convertirnos en “presuntuosos y arrogantes”. La soberbia es “un veneno poderoso. Basta una gota para echar a perder “una vida marcada por el bien”, señaló el Papa, al recordar que las virtudes teologales ayudan en la lucha contra el “ego”, el “pobre yo” que se adueña de todo, y entonces “nace la soberbia”. Asimismo, el Papa se refirió a que mañana, 27 de abril, la Iglesia celebra el décimo aniversario de la canonización de san Juan Pablo II. “Mirando su vida, podemos ver lo que el hombre puede conseguir al aceptar y desarrollar en sí mismo los dones de Dios: la fe, la esperanza y la caridad”, afirmó Francisco.

This week Lale chats with author Chantha Nguon—along with her daughter Clara and co-author Kim Green—about her new memoir Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes. Listen to hear the trio share stories of their travels across Cambodia and collaborations in the kitchen, while Chantha reflects on life as a Cambodian refugee, life in 1960s Battambang, and the dishes that have always kept her connected to home.

Licht der Hoffnung für Kinder und Jugendliche in Battambang (Kambodscha) Im Lighthouse von Battambang (Kambodscha) wird Kindern und Jugendlichen Schule gegeben und gleichzeitig auch das Evangelium gebracht. Auf diese Weise wächst eine Generation der Hoffnung heran und das Reich Gottes gebaut. In dem Video seht ihr ein Interview mit dem Gründer Lukas und dem Leiter Vanna zu ihrer Arbeit. #gottesruhe #LighthouseBattanbang #LichtDerWelt #ReichGottesBauen ———————————————— Eine Veröffentlichung von @Kraftwerk_MaxFichtner für den #kraftwerkblog www.kraftwerk.blog AboutMe https://about.me/maxfichtner PodCast auf https://podcast.kraftwerk.blog Storys auf https://story.kraftwerk.blog NEWSLETTER bestellen http://newsletter.kraftwerk.blog ———————————————— #kraftwerkblog #kraftgottes #MaxFichtner #gottesruhe #predigt #gott #jesus #heiligergeist #bibel #wortgottes #glauben #evangelium #christsein #jüngerschaft #nachfolge

- Hôm nay (03/11), tại tỉnh Battambang, Campuchia khai mạc Diễn đàn Doanh nghiệp Việt Nam-Campuchia khu vực Tây Bắc Campuchia năm 2022. Hoạt động thường niên này được nối lại sau 2 năm tạm hoãn do đại dịch Covid-19. Chủ đề : Doanh nghiệp Việt Nam, Campuchia --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/vov1tintuc/support

Parroquia Santo Cristo de los Milagros, Carolina PR. 10 de julio de 2022. Grabada en la celebración eucarística dominical desde la misión en Battambang, Camboya Celebrante: P. Néstor Yulfo Hoffmannlecturas de este domingo fueron: Deuteronomio 30,10-14 Colosenses 1, 15-20 Lucas 10, 25-37

#trantaythanh #biantrantaythanh #trantaythanhvatamnhincuavuanhanguyenỞ nước ta, sau khi hoàn thành việc thiết lập chủ quyền trên toàn đất Nam Bộ, Chúa Võ Nguyễn Phúc Khoát qua đời, Nguyễn Phúc Thuần còn nhỏ tuổi lên nối ngôi, quyền hành bị Trương Phúc Loan thâu tóm. Từ đây nổ ra cuộc khởi nghĩa Tây Sơn, nội chiến diễn ra ác liệt. Nước Chân Lạp mất chỗ dựa. Lợi dụng tình hình rối ren đó, Xiêm La thực hiện việc bành trướng lãnh thổ. Sau khi chiếm ba tiểu quốc Vạn Tượng (cả nước Lào ngày nay), Xiêm nhiều lần đưa quân tấn công uy hiếp Chân Lạp, sáp nhập một vùng đất rộng lớn gồm Xiêm Riệp, Battambang và lãnh thổ phía Tây Chân Lạp vào đất Xiêm, đồng thời áp đặt quyền đô hộ đối với phần còn lại của Chân Lạp và tạo dựng, khống chế, sai khiến vua Chân Lạp. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tu-dien-lich-su/message

This week Hannah and Sarah have explored Siem Reap and Battambang. They visited Angkor Wat - the worlds largest temple and take an unexpected trip to the circus. They are pleasantly surprised by Battambang and discover their favourite tour guide to date. Find out what local delicacy Sarah has given a try and about their arduous journey to the beautiful island of Koh Rong.

We are back to Cambodia in this episode and back to lots of fun little stories from my adventure in Battambang! From scams to food to exclusive rich white people hotels in Asia and... also... where I learn that the girl I liked also likes me... after she has already left ;(Also, I become Darth Vader.. sort of? Orrrr maybe I had too much wine?! Or both :)Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy this episode!!!!Let me know your thoughts on my substack: https://nofairytaletravels.substack.com

Mai adásunk politikai nem píszi inkorrektságot és nagy mennyiségű csúnya beszédet tartalmaz, kérjük ne hallgassák meg! Szereposztás: Bede: Bede, Uj: Uj, Winkler: Winkler, továbbá a kambodzsai násznép, a bangkoki varánuszok, ütődött angolok és a Legendary Kínai Néni.   00.00: Üdvözlet a vécéből, menedék a kambodzsai esküvő elől. 02.15: Mikor lesz az esküvő? Reggel fél 6! 03.00: 21 kilométer a trópuson, romok között. 05.10: Bangkokban futni, varánuszok között. 05.45: Napi szólásmondás: csak a veszett kutyák és az angolok… 08.30: Angkor félmaraton: a magyar fiú a 105. helyen. (Az is szépen csillog.) 14.30: Hogyan tudod magad halálra hajszolni egy uszodában? 17.50: Keveset tudok Kazahsztánról… 24.05: A középosztály építi a barikádokat. 26.05: Kazah óvodáskivégzés az Instagramon. 28.00: Battambang killing field 31.30: Ajánló: segglyukas dry pot a He He étteremben. 32.30: Na miért lett Spartacus meleg ikon? 36.20: A Shenows.com kiváló gyűjtése: Melegpornó az 1960-as Spartacusból, csak erős idegzetűeknek  39.30: Winkler legendás kínai nénijének kantoni stílusú mangalicakolbásza: kóstoló.   43.00: Amikor a sértett Mága Zoltán elhúzta UP nótáját a 40. születésnapja alkalmából. 47.20: Amikor Bede Márton leszerződtette Fekete Pákót. 49.20: Az Etus rovat vendége: a méz. 51.00: All My Apes Gone. 56.50: Gattyán György :(((

It was time for some more touristing around Battambang, Cambodia and the main attraction this day would be an army of bats!!!We rented a tuk tuk for the day, lost 2 girls to food poisoning, tended to my now severe leg burns from the rooftop canal boat ferry ride the other day, invaded an elementary school playground, feasted on country rats, and gawked at armies of bats descending upon the Cambodian forest to begin their evening feast.To leave a comment, go to my substack and you can comment there: https://nofairytaletravels.substack.com/

The night starts with a date in a lovely funny town in Cambodia called BattamBang with a beautiful Italian girl... and her unsuspecting local lesbian Tinder date... can you say AWKWARD?!?!The night ended with drunk scootering around the city with a former American Cambodian gang member who was deported back to Cambodia and an Australian bar owner who might also have been exiled from the land down-under.It was a crazy night that capped-off a crazy day in a place I had never even heard of just a few days prior to this.Ask me some questions on my substack :) https://nofairytaletravels.substack.com/

Michael Bonnici contributes over 200 volunteer hours every year. He is Director of Lifesaving, educational speaker and award-winning Patrol Captain at Wanda Surf Club. He also volunteers for Meals on Wheels, Australian Red Cross Blood Service and Salvation Army. Michael raised $3,000 for Samaritans Purse Australia and volunteered time to help build schools in disadvantaged Battambang, Cambodia. He was recently named as the Sydney South Young and Overall Volunteer of the Year. I am a dynamic, organised and committed individual with the ability to pay attention to detail. I am quick to understand innovative ideas and able to work hard on my own initiative to meet deadlines. I also enjoy working in a positive team environment which ensures the best possible result for the organisation, team and client. I pride myself on my work ethic, always striving to continue to learn and improve my knowledge no matter what the task may be. As a graduated City Planning (Honours) Student, I am extremely passionate about sustainable Urban growth, through a variety of social, economic and environmental factors that determines the future of our cities. With a passion for Strategic and Transport planning, I have high aspirations to work on future large scale development projects which ensure sustainable growth for our cities going into the future. I am very outgoing person who enjoys volunteer Surf Lifesaving at the beach, Rugby League refereeing and working as a Senior Town Planner at Canterbury Bankstown Council. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is the story of my first full day in the city of Battambang Cambodia with my new travel family. It involves recovering from massive sunburn, touring local markets full of worm vendors and knock-off everything and squactopus fish lol, and also a drunken bamboo railway adventure, renting a tuk-tuk for a day, fake police stops and bribes and a Simple Jack Tropic Thunder style jungle theater production!It was a truly fun and goofy day and it was perfect, especially due to the amazing travel family that I had! :)For more info, go to my substack and ask me a question: https://nofairytaletravels.substack.com

 Man Abroad is Not a Man Long Forlorn- MeThis is a story of how I came to have one of my best travel families ever, and a truly magical experience in Cambodia.In this episode, I meet my travel family and my guide.I get a massage from blind people that closely resembles torture, the guide gets a drive-by scooter mugging, I lose a girl to a total twat but end up with 2 Brazilians, Odin's Daughter is punched by her one-night man and everyone somehow manages to come together to make it on an 8 hour canal boat journey from Siem Reap (Angkor Wat) to the magical and unexpected city of Battambang, Cambodia, which is where the real crazy adventure begins :)To leave a comment on this episode head to: https://nofairytaletravels.substack.com/

Kevin or "Sydney Food Boy" (SFB) runs a food blog recently exploding in popularity for his in depth reviews and videos. His content adds a personal touch by going behind the scenes to see the origins of the recipes and how they are made. Join us on this episode to see a behind the scenes on SFB instead, covering how he started the blog, his favourite places to eat in Sydney and what's to come in the future for his platform.Guest: Kevin LaSFB Instagram: https://bit.ly/3k631yGSFB YouTube: https://bit.ly/3k7yvEBSFB top picks as mentioned: Battambang | 2 Foodies | Lao VillageWant to get in touch? Send us an email at ricenmicspodcast@gmail.comFollow us on our socials: https://linktr.ee/ricenmicspodcast

Episode 2: The Beginning – Robert's family was wealthy at the beginning of the Khmer Rouge. When he started hearing about political turmoil, his parents told him to cross the border to Thailand or come home. In Battambang, he had his first violent encounters with the Khmer Rouge and witnessed the beginning of group slaughters. That's when he decided he couldn't stay in the city Battambang and needed to quickly figure out any way back home. Music Written By: Acerylio Chen

Malgré la croissance rapide et le développement économique de Battambang, de nombreux résidents sont confrontés à la pauvreté, au manque d'accès aux soins de santé et à des difficultés sociales. L'Église adventiste du septième jour voit ces défis comme des opportunités pour améliorer les conditions de vie des habitants. ---------

Sopheap Pich b. 1971, Battambang, Cambodia. Lives and works in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Sopheap’s family left Cambodia as refugees in 1979.  Having first settled in camps in Thailand and the Philippines, they arrived in the United States in 1984 at age 13 years old and began his formal education. He took art classes in Junior High School but shifted his passion to wood shop in high school and worked as a stagehand in college.  He first majored in Pre-Med but later switched to Fine Arts in his Sophomore year, a choice that allowed him to travel to France, Italy and Mexico and led him to spent a year in Paris studying at the national art school at Cergy Pontoise.  These travels impacted his views of the possibilities and limitations of art that have guided his thinking since. He returned to Cambodia 2002.  And in 2004, began making sculptures using rattan and bamboo, his main materials to this day.  Aside from working on his art, he also owns a farm in the Kirirom Mountain areas where he plants hardwood trees, coconuts and date palms. His works has been shown at dOCUMENTA 13, the Venice Biennale, the Asia Pacific Triennale, among others.  And are in major museums collections including the Metropolitan Museum, the Guggenheim, the National Gallery of Singapore, M+ Hong Kong, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, among others. Kapok, 2021, Wood, metal, rattan, bamboo, 160 x 530 x 170cm La Danse, 2021. Dimension varies. Each tree appr. 7 meters tall. Repurposed aluminum and metal.

A conversation about abolitionist politics and transformative justice between Asian activists, authors and organizers. This panel explores abolitionist politics and practices among Asian organizers and cultural workers whose projects include prisoner support, anti-deportation work, disability justice, gender and sexual justice, anti-imperialism and anti-borders, and transformative justice. Speakers: Victoria Law is a freelance journalist that covers the intersections of incarceration, gender and resistance. She is the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women and the co-author, with Maya Schenwar, of Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reform. She is also the co-founder of Books Through Bars NYC. Mia Mingus is a writer, educator and community organizer for transformative justice and disability justice. She is a prison abolitionist and a survivor who believes that we must move beyond punishment, revenge and criminalization if we are ever to effectively break generational cycles of violence and create the world our hearts long for. She is passionate about building the skills, relationships and structures that can transform violence, harm and abuse within our communities and that do not rely on or replicate the punitive system we currently live in. For more, visit her blog, Leaving Evidence. Tamara K. Nopper is a sociologist whose research focuses on the racial wealth gap, credit scoring systems and the push for alternative data, and the intersection between racism, financialization, criminalization, and punishment. She has experience in Asian American, immigrant rights, and anti-war activism. Anoop Prasad is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco and also a part of Survived and Punished and Asian Prisoner Support Committee. Anoop's work has focused on defending formerly incarcerated people from deportation with a particular focus on Cambodian refugees and domestic violence survivors. Sarath Sarinay Suong (he/him) was born in the refugee camp of Khao I Dang after his family fled Battambang, Cambodia during civil war and immigrated to his hometown of Revere, Massachusetts. To cope with the violence and pain of growing up poor, queer, and refugee, he became a community organizer, centering the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Sarath moved to Providence, Rhode Island in 1998 to attend Brown University where he majored in Ethnic Studies with a specific focus on Southeast Asian resettlement, resilience, and resistance. There, he became a co-founder and former Executive Director of Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM), a community organization of Southeast Asian young people, queer and trans youth of color, and survivors of state violence organizing collectively against state violence. Sarath is also a founding Co-Chair of the Alliance of Rhode Island Southeast Asians for Education (ARISE), an organization dedicated to working with Southeast Asian youth to organize for education justice. Sarath sits on the advisory board of the Immigrant Justice Network . And he is currently the National Director of Southeast Asian Freedom Network (SEAFN), a movement family of Southeast Asian grassroots organizations founded to fight against detention and deportation. Harsha Walia has organized in anti-border, Indigenous solidarity, migrant justice, feminist, anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist movements for two decades through many community groups and organizations. She is also the author of Undoing Border Imperialism, co-author of both Never Home: Legislating Discrimination in Canadian Immigration, and Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and contributing member of the Abolition Journal. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/GL2ZbqlJRQI Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Born in Battambang, Cambodia, during the Khmer Rouge regime, Kalyanee Mam immigrated to the United States in 1981 with her family. In this narrated essay, Kalyanee traces her father’s struggle for agency and acceptance in America against the backdrop of the false promise of the American Dream. As she reflects on her father’s death—“from pain and heartache for a homeland he could never return to and the disappointment of a dreamland where he would never be accepted”—she considers her Cambodian heritage, her upbringing in the United States, and the deep belonging that can be found when one is anchored in ancestry and homeland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode, Josh and Lyndsay chat about how recent vaccine news might affect the timeline for returning to the stage, a lawsuit to re-open theaters in New York, and what they think could be positive forward looking indicators for the circus industry. Later in the show they call up Joel Gershon, the director of a brand new circus documentary Cirque Du Cambodia which follows two students on their journey from Battambang to Montreal. This episode also includes an exclusive sneak peak of Ottavio Gesmundo's new audiobook of the Grand Gypsy

  On today's episode, Josh and Lyndsay chat about how recent vaccine news might affect the timeline for returning to the stage, a lawsuit to re-open theaters in New York, and what they think could be positive forward looking indicators for the circus industry. Later in the show they call up Joel Gershon, the director of a brand new circus documentary Cirque Du Cambodia which follows two students on their journey from Battambang to Montreal. This episode also includes an exclusive sneak peak of Ottavio Gesmundo's new audiobook of the Grand Gypsy. If you enjoy today's episode please share it with a friend. Have a great weekend!

Neardey Trinh – In the Life of Music, Champa Battambang - What's a veteran, computer security mom of 4 kids do in her "spare time?" Make an internationally recognized movie about love, life and Cambodia.  Watch Jon Leon Guerrero and Pete A Turner sit with producer Neardey Trinh as they discuss the process of making a movie, BTW this is her and production partner Caylee So's first movie--wow go get em ladies. Seriously though, watch this gorgeous and emotional film. If you don't know the song Champa Battambang by Sinn Si Samouth, buckle up, let's go, you've got some catching up to do.  HaikuIn CambodiaThrough In The Life Of MusicWe all can go home ​Similar episodes:        Get your raffle tickets for the Save the Brave rifle at   ​ Join us in supporting Save the Brave as we battle PTSD.   ​ ​ Executive Producer/Host: Pete A Turner  Producer: Damjan Gjorgjiev  ​ ​ ​​ ​​ ​The Break It Down Show is your favorite best, new podcast, featuring 5 episodes a week with great interviews highlighting world-class guests from a wide array of shows 

The portrait is R. Yean, Sea forest at Mondulkiri province, Cambodia, ©Norm Phanith, 2017 H.R.H. (His Rebel/Revolt Highness) The Articurizer (Art[ist] Curator, Articulator/Writer, Researcher, and Art Advocate) A native of Battambang, Reaksmey Yean is a self-proclaimed art advocate, an early-career art curator, writer, and researcher. Currently, he is a program director and co-founder of Silapak Trotchaek Pneik, a contemporary art space by YK Art House. He is also a part-time lecturer at Phnom Penh International Institute of the Art (PPIIA). Reaksmey is a research affiliate at Center for Khmer Studies and a Co-Investigator on Phase 2 Large Grant project ‘Contemporary Arts Making and Creative Expression Among Young Cambodians.’ Yean is an Alphawood scholar (SOAS, the University of London for Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art – in Indian, Chinese, and Southeast Asian Art). He was an exchange scholar at the Institute of Southeast Asian Affairs, Chiang Mai University. He is an inaugural SEAsia Award Scholar (2017) of LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, an Asian Cultural Council fellow (2018), and a beneficiary of Dr. Karen Mcleod Adair grant for MA in Asian Art Histories at LASALLE College of the Arts. Yean was a curator for creative programs at Java Creative Café, Phnom Penh. Prior, he served several senior posts, including an Assistant to School of Performing Arts, at Phare Ponleu Selpak, a multi-disciplinary arts center, where he received his early education. He is also a founding father of a defunct collective named Trotchaek Pneik, a cultural and artistic collective based in Battambang. Yean is interested in multi-disciplinary practices (Film, Visual, and Performing Arts). As an Art Advocate, Yean is involved in the promotion of art and culture and their histories within contemporary Cambodia via curatorial practices, art criticism, and cultural pundit. As a scholar, Yean is concerned with Buddhist Arts, Contemporary and Modern Arts, Southeast Asia, Cultural Diplomacy, and Post-colonial theory. The books mentioned in the interview were: Cambodge: The Cultivation of a Nation, Of Grammatology, and The Truth in Painting. Dinh Q. Lê, Splendor and Darkness #32, 2017, Foiling and screen-print on Stonehenge paper, cut, weaved and burned, 221 x330 cm, Courtesy of Reaksmey Yean

更多英语知识，请关注微信公众号: VOA英语每日一听 Todd: So Julia, I was looking at your website and I noticed that you did a bike trip in Cambodia.Julia: Yes, that's right. I joined an organization called Pepi and we did a ride from Siem Reap to Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City.Todd: Wow, that's pretty cool.Julia: Thank you.Todd: So how did you do this trip? Was it through some organization?Julia: Well, actually it was a couple of friends of mine lived in the same town as me and it was their idea. They wanted to, they'd been to Cambodia, they wanted to go back and they wanted to do something somehow to help in some way. They recognized there was a problem with education in Cambodia, availability of education. They wanted to build a school so they went online and they found an organization through which they could, if they raised the funds, this organization would build a school for them and so we incorporated the bike ride as part of the fundraising and as part of the learning process. We wanted to actually go to Cambodia and see the country, as much of the country as possible.Todd: So that's pretty cool. So first let's talk about the bike ride. What exactly were the details of the trip?Julia: Well, it was, this ride has now become an annual event and obviously that was the first one so the details were a little sketchy in the beginning. We kind of were making it up as we went along. We planned for about a year in terms of preparation, physical training and planning the routes and raising the money and deciding where we'd stay, how long it'd take, all those kind of things. And we, actually we hired bikes from a company in Cambodia when we got there. They were mountain bikes. We had panniers, we actually got a company that sponsored us for those so we could carry stuff with us and we visited about seventeen organizations during the ride and other NGOs, other educational organizations, a few of the other schools that were part of the same project we also visited them and we took with us teaching materials because we did some English classes and some environmental awareness classes as we rode. So those organizations kind of were the pinpoints of where we stopped and stayed.Todd: So for the bike ride you started in Phnom Penh?Julia: We started in Siem Reap.Todd: Siem Reap?Julia: Which is near Angkor Wat which is near where the school was built.Todd: And then from there you went to Phnom Penh?Julia: We went, actually we set off from our school which is on a road that runs towards the Thai border in a very rural place. It was unpaved road, it was very bumpy and it was about a two-hour drive north of Siem Reap. So from the school we headed down to Battambang which is the kind of third biggest city, not so famous, but it's a tourist destination and also a nice city, a very nice city and we followed around the lower edge of the Tonle Sap River, Lake sorry, and we did come into Phnom Penh. We spent a few nights in Phnom Penh. Then we headed down to the coast via a town called Kep and ended up at Sihanoukville which is one of the big coastal, it's a big tourist resort basically on the Cambodian coast. We stayed there a few nights then we looped back to Phnom Penh, spent another few nights in Phnom Penh, and then we followed the Mekong River through the delta and across the border into Vietnam and into Ho Chi Minh City.Todd: That's fantastic.Julia: It's beautiful.

更多英语知识，请关注微信公众号: VOA英语每日一听 Todd: So Julia, I was looking at your website and I noticed that you did a bike trip in Cambodia.Julia: Yes, that's right. I joined an organization called Pepi and we did a ride from Siem Reap to Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City.Todd: Wow, that's pretty cool.Julia: Thank you.Todd: So how did you do this trip? Was it through some organization?Julia: Well, actually it was a couple of friends of mine lived in the same town as me and it was their idea. They wanted to, they'd been to Cambodia, they wanted to go back and they wanted to do something somehow to help in some way. They recognized there was a problem with education in Cambodia, availability of education. They wanted to build a school so they went online and they found an organization through which they could, if they raised the funds, this organization would build a school for them and so we incorporated the bike ride as part of the fundraising and as part of the learning process. We wanted to actually go to Cambodia and see the country, as much of the country as possible.Todd: So that's pretty cool. So first let's talk about the bike ride. What exactly were the details of the trip?Julia: Well, it was, this ride has now become an annual event and obviously that was the first one so the details were a little sketchy in the beginning. We kind of were making it up as we went along. We planned for about a year in terms of preparation, physical training and planning the routes and raising the money and deciding where we'd stay, how long it'd take, all those kind of things. And we, actually we hired bikes from a company in Cambodia when we got there. They were mountain bikes. We had panniers, we actually got a company that sponsored us for those so we could carry stuff with us and we visited about seventeen organizations during the ride and other NGOs, other educational organizations, a few of the other schools that were part of the same project we also visited them and we took with us teaching materials because we did some English classes and some environmental awareness classes as we rode. So those organizations kind of were the pinpoints of where we stopped and stayed.Todd: So for the bike ride you started in Phnom Penh?Julia: We started in Siem Reap.Todd: Siem Reap?Julia: Which is near Angkor Wat which is near where the school was built.Todd: And then from there you went to Phnom Penh?Julia: We went, actually we set off from our school which is on a road that runs towards the Thai border in a very rural place. It was unpaved road, it was very bumpy and it was about a two-hour drive north of Siem Reap. So from the school we headed down to Battambang which is the kind of third biggest city, not so famous, but it's a tourist destination and also a nice city, a very nice city and we followed around the lower edge of the Tonle Sap River, Lake sorry, and we did come into Phnom Penh. We spent a few nights in Phnom Penh. Then we headed down to the coast via a town called Kep and ended up at Sihanoukville which is one of the big coastal, it's a big tourist resort basically on the Cambodian coast. We stayed there a few nights then we looped back to Phnom Penh, spent another few nights in Phnom Penh, and then we followed the Mekong River through the delta and across the border into Vietnam and into Ho Chi Minh City.Todd: That's fantastic.Julia: It's beautiful.

更多英语知识，请关注微信公众号: VOA英语每日一听 Todd: So Julia, I was looking at your website and I noticed that you did a bike trip in Cambodia.Julia: Yes, that's right. I joined an organization called Pepi and we did a ride from Siem Reap to Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City.Todd: Wow, that's pretty cool.Julia: Thank you.Todd: So how did you do this trip? Was it through some organization?Julia: Well, actually it was a couple of friends of mine lived in the same town as me and it was their idea. They wanted to, they'd been to Cambodia, they wanted to go back and they wanted to do something somehow to help in some way. They recognized there was a problem with education in Cambodia, availability of education. They wanted to build a school so they went online and they found an organization through which they could, if they raised the funds, this organization would build a school for them and so we incorporated the bike ride as part of the fundraising and as part of the learning process. We wanted to actually go to Cambodia and see the country, as much of the country as possible.Todd: So that's pretty cool. So first let's talk about the bike ride. What exactly were the details of the trip?Julia: Well, it was, this ride has now become an annual event and obviously that was the first one so the details were a little sketchy in the beginning. We kind of were making it up as we went along. We planned for about a year in terms of preparation, physical training and planning the routes and raising the money and deciding where we'd stay, how long it'd take, all those kind of things. And we, actually we hired bikes from a company in Cambodia when we got there. They were mountain bikes. We had panniers, we actually got a company that sponsored us for those so we could carry stuff with us and we visited about seventeen organizations during the ride and other NGOs, other educational organizations, a few of the other schools that were part of the same project we also visited them and we took with us teaching materials because we did some English classes and some environmental awareness classes as we rode. So those organizations kind of were the pinpoints of where we stopped and stayed.Todd: So for the bike ride you started in Phnom Penh?Julia: We started in Siem Reap.Todd: Siem Reap?Julia: Which is near Angkor Wat which is near where the school was built.Todd: And then from there you went to Phnom Penh?Julia: We went, actually we set off from our school which is on a road that runs towards the Thai border in a very rural place. It was unpaved road, it was very bumpy and it was about a two-hour drive north of Siem Reap. So from the school we headed down to Battambang which is the kind of third biggest city, not so famous, but it's a tourist destination and also a nice city, a very nice city and we followed around the lower edge of the Tonle Sap River, Lake sorry, and we did come into Phnom Penh. We spent a few nights in Phnom Penh. Then we headed down to the coast via a town called Kep and ended up at Sihanoukville which is one of the big coastal, it's a big tourist resort basically on the Cambodian coast. We stayed there a few nights then we looped back to Phnom Penh, spent another few nights in Phnom Penh, and then we followed the Mekong River through the delta and across the border into Vietnam and into Ho Chi Minh City.Todd: That's fantastic.Julia: It's beautiful.

Marking the dedication of the Battambang House of Worship https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/the-universal-house-of-justice/messages/20170901_001/1

Une ultime visite des magnifiques temples d'Angkor puis nous partons pour Battambang, la 2e plus grosse ville du Cambodge. Une dernière grosse étape pour Phnom Phen et nous retrouvons nos amis pour 3 jours de "vacances" à Kampot. Encore un trajet épique pour rejoindre l'île de Koh Rong Sanloem.

In this episode I talk about the opportunity one has to reflect on their self-improvement and personal growth while revisiting a travel destination. I've had the opportunity to do this on my current trip to Siem Reap after a 5 year absence. Also in this episode, alternative towns to Siem Reap to visit in Cambodia for a truly authentic experience of a slower paced Southeast Asia-Kampot, Kratie, Battambang. Two ways you can support the Far East Travels Podcast:Patreon-monthly pledge with exclusive access to private content:https://www.patreon.com/FarEastTravelsSingle donation-PayPal:http://paypal.me/JohnASaboe

What comes to mind when you think of Cambodia? A lively mother who mixes meditation and art was definitely not what Thenu pictured. This episode features local Battambang artist, Khchao Touch, discussing life, love and art. For more information on the Lotus Gallery: TripAdvisor Facebook

I feel like several of the trips I’ve taken in recent years have been to places people have urged me to go while I still can, or at least before things change. On today’s show, I visit Cambodia, which is one such place that’s changed dramatically, where the present no longer looks like the past. First I go to Angkor Wat, which had just 8000 tourists in 1993, but 2.5 million by 2018. Then I take a ride on Battambang’s famous bamboo railway, which was moved to a new location the year after my trip. Visit my website to see photos of the crowd watching the sunrise at Angkor Wat and a video of my brother and me riding the bamboo railway. Far From Home is a podcast where award-winning public radio journalist Scott Gurian visits parts of the world that most people never think about and tells stories they've never heard. For more info, visit farfromhomepodcast.org

26 of former CNRP activists, including 2 women were summoned for questioning by the prosecution of Battambang Provincial Court from May 8 to May 21, 2019. - អតីត​សកម្ម​អតីត​គណបក្ស​សង្គ្រោះ​ជាតិ ចំនួន ២៦​នាក់ ដែលក្នុងនោះ មាន​ស្ត្រី ២​នាក់ ត្រូវបាន​អយ្យការ​អម​សាលាដំបូង​ខេត្តបាត់ដំបង បាន​កោះហៅ​​សាកសួរ ចាប់ពី​ថ្ងៃទី​០៨ ដល់​ថ្ងៃទី​២១ ខែឧសភា ឆ្នាំ​២០១៩​។ ក្នុងនោះ នៅ​ថ្ងៃទី​០៨​ឧសភា​ មាន ៥​នាក់ ថ្ងៃទី​០៩​ឧសភា មាន ៦​នាក់ ថ្ងៃទី​១៦​ឧសភា ចំនួន ៦​នាក់ ថ្ងៃទី​១៧​ឧសភា ចំនួន ៥​នាក់ និង​ថ្ងៃទី​២១​ឧសភា ចំនួន ៤​នាក់​។

This is the first episode of Analog.Cafe Podcast where Dmitri reads his photo essay about a backpacking trip to Cambodia with his wife-to-be. Follow along as he recalls getting rid of all of his possessions but a backpack to travel to China. Then south, through Vietnam and into Phnom Penh. Through the killing fields, as he learns of the genocide in Cambodia, onto the white sand beaches of Sihanoukville. And finally into Siem Reap to see Angkor Wat and "charming" Battambang. All the photos and full text of the essay could be seen and read at https://www.analog.cafe/zine/ghetto-paradise-cambodia-p6pr

Professional educators Tom and Sue Mounkhall, volunteers for Teachers across Borders (TAB), discuss the valuable work done by this nonprofit organization. TAB’s original purpose was to assist Cambodia in reconstructing its teaching corps, which was destroyed by the country’s turmoil. TAB provides teacher workshops with expert educators from Australia, the U.S. and the U.K., inspired by the belief that education is key to solving many of the world’s problems including poverty, disease, and child trafficking. The Mounkhalls describe their experiences teaching Cambodian colleagues in Battambang best classroom practices, collaboration techniques, and content. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/radiorotary/support

Envie de travailler dans l'humanitaire ? Tenté par une reconversion professionnelle ? Dans cette interview, retrouvez Quentin qui est passé du jonglage en France à devoir gérer des situations de crises, en zones de guerres africaines. Vous allez découvrir les raisons de cette étonnante reconversion, ses expériences dans les ONG en Afrique ou en Asie et son point de vue sur les carrières dans l'humanitaire. Écoutez tout de suite l'épisode (53 min) : Épisode #083 sur la reconversion de Quentin vers l'humanitaire Lors de mon passage à Dakar, pole central du secteur humanitaire en Afrique de l'Ouest, j'ai rencontré Quentin. Il est consultant pour Marie Stopes, ONG spécialisée sur les problématiques de planning familial dans les pays en développement. Au fil de nos discussions sur ses expériences dans l'humanitaire, il m'a semblé indispensable de vous présenter son parcours dans le podcast. Après une dizaine d'années dans les métiers du cirque, Quentin a changé complètement de profession pour se reconvertir dans l'humanitaire. Dès sa première mission, il est envoyé sur une zone explosive (Nord-Kivu au Congo) pour y gérer plusieurs millions de budget. Une expérience marquante, parfois troublante. Dans cette interview, on discute de sa carrière dans les métiers du cirque, pourquoi il a voulu changer de métier, comment s'est passé la reconversion, comment s'est déroulé sa première mission, la vie quotidienne dans une des zones les plus difficiles d'Afrique, ses meilleurs et pires souvenirs, sa vision de l'humanitaire dans un parcours de vie et enfin ses conseils pour ceux qui veulent se lancer dans ce secteur. Les liens de l'épisode : Phareps.org Institutbioforce.fr Premiere-urgence.org Solidarites.org Warchild.org Mariestopes.org Comment écouter cet épisode ? Cet épisode dure 53 minutes et vous pouvez l'écouter : Sur iTunes/Apple Podcasts Téléchargement direct (mp3) : clic droit, puis enregistrez sous Grâce aux applications mobile/tablette : Podcasts (iOS), Podcast Addict (Android) ou Deezer. Cherchez "Traverser La Frontière" Écoute en ligne, dans le lecteur ci-dessous : Du cirque aux missions humanitaires en Afrique : Le résumé écrit de l'interview Quentin est actuellement consultant pour Marie Stoppes, une ONG britannique centrée sur la planification familiale, à Dakar au Sénégal, depuis novembre 2017. Il travaille sur la chaine d'approvisionnement (logistique) pour 4 pays : Sénégal, Mali, Niger et Burkina Faso. Avant l'humanitaire Avant cette carrière dans une ONG, Quentin était dans le milieu du cirque pendant 10 ans. Après le lycée à 18 ans, il a intégré l'école nationale du cirque Annie fratellini durant 2 ans, avant de continuer à Chambéry une année supplémentaire. De 21 à 29 ans, il était intermittent du spectacle en France ou en Europe. À la base, il est jongleur en massue et il a aussi été porteur en trapèze volant. Il a beaucoup travaillé en festival, dans la rue, en évènementiel pour des compagnies de théâtre modernes. Au final, rarement dans du cirque pur et traditionnel. Il a pu voyager en Espagne, Portugal, Maroc, Italie. Il en vivait plutôt bien et il trouve ce milieu passionnant, malgré la précarité que l'on peut avoir. Le cirque est une véritable école de la vie et Quentin est ravi d'être passé par là. Vers la reconversion Il a rencontré une troupe de cirque cambodgienne à Toulouse : le projet Battambang. Monté à la fin des années 90 pour encadrer des jeunes cambodgiens qui avaient grandi dans des camps de réfugiés en Thaïlande et pas forcément adaptés à la vie sociale "normale". Un collectif de cirque français se rendait régulièrement au Cambodge afin d'enseigner des disciplines de cirque aux jeunes de Battambang. 15 ans après, ce sont ces jeunes que Quentin a rencontrés à Toulouse. Au Cambodge, les jeunes peuvent accéder aux cours de cirque, théâtre, danse, musique, peinture...

On a special episode of Foreign National, Erik & Seda are joined by Mu Sochua, a Cambodian former politician and rights activist. She was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Battambang from 2013 to 2017, a seat which she previously held from 1998 to 2003. She was a member and Vice President of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) until its dissolve, and previously a member of the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) prior to its merger with the Human Rights Party. As a member of FUNCINPEC, she also served as Minister of Women and Veterans' Affairs in Hun Sen's coalition government from 1998 to 2004. She is currently one of 118 senior opposition figures serving a five-year ban from politics following a court ruling on 16 November 2017.

Cambodia's bamboo train-essential transportation for rural living doubles as a tourist ride[/caption] Far East Adventure Travel The Podcast is brought to you by Far East Adventure Travel Magazine. Get your free copy now! Go to the iTunes App Store, download the app then download your copies of Far East Adventure Travel Magazine. I was staying in Battambang, Cambodia. While I was there I had to visit one of the area’s most famous attractions, the bamboo train. The bamboo train gets it’s name from the bamboo deck or floorboard used that rests on top of the wheels that can transport anything from chickens and rice to people. In Khmer it’s called a Lorry and has been used since the Khmer Rouge shutdown of most regular train service in the country. The Bamboo Train Station. Now where is the first class lounge? I could use a bloody mary about right now! Waiter? Actually the place is quite charming and surprisingly not touristy feeling at all. At least not at the starting point in O Dambong, about 4 km from Battambang. The bamboo train solves the biggest problem of a single track train line. What do you do when two trains meet from opposite directions? In the case of the bamboo train? Simple-move one off the track. This experience alone makes this one of the world’s all time great train rides. A little heavy on the photo gear I know but I’m a one man show right now. Farewells from the departure crew and we’re off. The bamboo train was not the first flatbed type service in Cambodia. During the civil war of the 80’s and 90’s flatbed trains were used as mine sweepers ahead of the rest of the train. Service was free, risky but popular. [caption id="attachment_2266" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Bamboo train station at O Dambong-approximately 4 km from Battambang, Cambodia[/caption] And here we go about 3 minutes into the ride and our first stop. Wow, now that’s taking service station to the next level. The first lorries or bamboo trains were actually hand driven with a pole, kind of like an Italian gondola. Small motorcycle or tractor engines, like this one were added later. The wheels? They’re actually from abandoned tanks! Yes get your ass off the deck so I can do my job, thank you! Once again we are rolling on the tracks. The ride lasts almost a half-hour each way starting in O Dambong with a short stop in O Sra Lav before returning. The tracks are not in the best of shape with little or no maintenance for decades making them warped and misaligned. Occasionally you’ll get a strong bump from a really weak section, but hey it’s all part of the charm. It is just after 7am and I think this is a perfect time to come-with the sun just rising and cool comfortable temperatures. The atmosphere is amazing and feels like you’ve been dropped into an Indochina themed adventure movie. Cambodia’s first rail line was built by the French in the 1930’s. By 1969 the rail system was still in good shape but the civil war of the 1970’s soon saw some of the line destroyed. By 2008 passenger service was completely discontinued. Private interests currently hold the concession to the railway with only freight operation running between Phnom Penh and the coastal town of Sihanoukville. We are slowing down because another train is coming our way. The rule is the car with fewer passengers gives way to the other car. So if you want priority service bring a group or give some locals a free ride. Finally after a ride with stops that lasts just under 30 minutes we arrive at O Sra Lav. Here’s where it gets a little touristy, with the usual t-shirts, scarves, and kids selling bracelets. But that’s OK, they’re just trying to make a living and the people are always friendly here even if you don’t buy. Like this man kindly showing me the way. Ten minutes later we are back on the tracks and heading back to O Dambong. Sometimes so-called tourist attractions are spoiled by being over commercialized eventually losing the charm that originally made them attractive. For me the bamboo train is an absolutely original experience. Pieced together with leftover tank wheels, tractor motors, and eco-friendly bamboo, it’s the ultimate transportation mutt making it one of the world’s most original travel experiences. Subscribe to the audio podcast:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/adventure-travel-far-east-inspired-by-rick-steves-lonely/id1079513943?mt=2

Outside of Battambang, Cambodia is a Rube Goldberg ramshackle train to nowhere called the bamboo train. It is little more than a bamboo platform and a small lawnmower type engine sitting on two steel train wheels. Run that over a bumpy warped set of rails. There is nothing else like it. This video was shot during the Amateur Traveler trip to Cambodia in 2016.

The Tonle Sap is the largest fresh water lake in all of South East Asia and provides more than half of the fish consumed in Cambodia.  Many floating villages, and communities made up of  houses raised on giant stilts depend on the resources of the lake as a way of life. Intertwined with the rising and falling of water levels.From Siem Reap it’s approximately 15km to the lake, about 20 minutes or more by tuk tuk. It all depends on the time of year. If it’s the wet season, it’s long and sometimes the routes are restricted or just unbearable to drive. I’m here in the dry season so it’s not so bad, until you hit the dirts roads, then it’s bumpy. My driver Davin has a tough go with dodging the dips in the road and constantly checks to make sure his bike is OK.Chong Kneas is one of the most famous floating villages of the area and is close to the boat ride that takes you to Battambang. I’ve decided to travel to another village Kampong Phluk instead. It’s a little more out of the way at about 40km from Siem Reap but less touristy, although there still is an air of commercialism with floating restaurants and dugout boat rides through forests of sunken trees. I  also left Siem Reap early in the morning so as to avoid bumping into the large groups that still manage to make it out this way.Tonle Sap Lake is quite small during the dry season from November to May with a 1 meter depth throughout  the lake and an area covering 2700 square kilometers. When water is pushed up the Mekong River where it  converges with  the Tonle sap  at Phnom Phen the lake increases in size to 16,000 square kilometers with a depth of nine meters. The expansion results in a perfect breeding ground for fish. It’s at this time of year that fishing is banned so as to allow for an abundant season. Excerpts from "Rising Waters-Life On Kampong Phluk Stilt Village, Cambodia".

I was staying in Battambang, Cambodia. While I was there I had to visit one of the area’s most famous attractions, the bamboo train. The bamboo train gets it’s name from the  bamboo deck or floorboard used that rests on top of the wheels that can transport anything from chickens and rice to people. In Khmer it’s called a Lorry and has been used since the Khmer Rouge shutdown of most regular train service in the country.  The Bamboo Train Station. Now where is the first class lounge? I could use a bloody mary about right now! Waiter?  Actually the place is quite charming and surprisingly not touristy feeling at all. At least not at the starting point in O Dambong, about 4 km from Battambang.The bamboo train solves the biggest problem of a single track train line. What do you do when two trains meet from opposite directions? In the case of the bamboo train? Simple-move one off the track. This experience alone makes this one of the world’s all time great train rides.A little heavy on the photo gear I know but I’m a one man show right now.Farewells from the departure crew and we’re off. The bamboo train was not the first flatbed type service in Cambodia. During the civil war of the 80’s and 90’s flatbed trains were used as mine sweepers ahead of the rest of the train. Service was free, risky but popular. And here we go about 3 minutes into the ride and our first stop. Wow, now that’s taking service station to the next level. The first lorries or bamboo trains were actually hand driven with a pole, kind of like an Italian gondola. Small motorcycle or tractor engines, like this one were added later. The wheels? They’re actually from abandoned tanks! Yes get your ass off the deck so I can do my job, thank you! Excerpts from "Great Train Rides Of The World-Cambodia's Bamboo Train".

It’s often overlooked or just a mere stopover to or from Siem Reap, home of the famous ruins of Angkor Wat but Battambang Cambodia should be on your radar of places to visit in this country. Full of Khmer culture, early 20th century French architecture and a unique charm unlike anywhere else in Cambodia. Join me John Saboe for an exploration in and around Battambang, Cambodia in this episode of Far East Adventure Travel Podcast. Probably the number one site to visit in Battambang, Cambodia is the world-famous bamboo train. Made from left-over tank wheels, small-powered engines and a bamboo platform it’s a metaphor for the people of this country who’ve adapted and overcome incredible devastation and hardship to their culture and way of life. But this town, the second-largest in the country has so much more to offer. On my last trip through Cambodia I stayed in Battambang for several days exploring the town and discovering it’s charm. To find out a little bit more about Battambang from a native’s perspective and why it’s so appealing I spoke with artist Kchao Touch, who also owns the wonderfully eclectic Jewel In The Lotus Antique and Arts Shop in the arts quarter. The sounds of a memorial can quickly fade out to a wedding celebration, sometimes lasting for three days. Most Cambodian weddings are now only celebrated on a single day. This memorial in Battambang lasted for several days. Another uniquely Southeast Asian tradition respected every day in Battambang is the morning alms. For good luck lay people bring a food offering to the local Buddhist monks that wander the town in return for a blessing. Excerpts from "Bats, Beauty, Arts And Culture-Battambang, Cambodia  

Don’t miss Kalyanee as she talks about her move from law to film making, how to remain hopeful, social change and the future of Cambodia.Check out this review of her new film oand its recent viewing in Phnom Penh.KALYANEE MAM (DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, & CINEMATOGRAPHER) Award-winning filmmaker, lawyer, and born storyteller, Kalyanee Mam, is committed to combining her passion for art and advocacy to tell compelling and universal stories. Born in Battambang, Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge Regime, she and her family fled to the refugee camps at the Thai-Cambodian border and eventually immigrated to the United States in 1981. Even to this day hermother recounts stories of their flight through jungles laden with land mines. These stories and many others inspired Kalyanee to return to her native homeland and to make films about atrocities occurring in Cambodia even today. Most recently, Kalyanee directed, produced and shot A River Changes Course, winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and the Golden Gate Award for Best Feature Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival, and which charts the radical changes in Cambodia today that are transforming not only the country’s landscape – but also the dreams of its people. Kalyanee has also worked on 2011 Oscar-winning documentary, Inside Job(Cinematographer, Associate Producer, and Researcher) about the global financial crisis and documentary short Between Earth & Sky(Director, Producer, Cinematographer) about three young Iraqi refugee artists living in Syria, Jordan, and Egypt. A graduate of Yale University and UCLA Law School, Kalyanee has also worked as a legal consultant in Mozambique and Iraq. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Join Kalyanee and I today as she talks about her love for Cambodia and the environment, about “us” as the centre of the ripple, the universal nature to stories and why as a film director she feels that we need to “touch and feel” to get a better understanding of the world we live in.BiographyKALYANEE MAM (DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, & CINEMATOGRAPHER) Award-winning filmmaker, lawyer, and born storyteller, Kalyanee Mam, is committed to combining her passion for art and advocacy to tell compelling and universal stories. Born in Battambang, Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge Regime, she and her family fled to the refugee camps at the Thai-Cambodian border and eventually immigrated to the United States in 1981. Even to this day her mother recounts stories of their flight through jungles laden with land mines. These stories and many others inspired Kalyanee to return to her native homeland and to make films about atrocities occurring in Cambodia even today.Most recently, Kalyanee directed, produced and shot A River Changes Course, winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and the Golden Gate Award for Best Feature Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival, and which charts the radical changes in Cambodia today that are transforming not only the country’s landscape – but also the dreams of its people. Kalyanee has also worked on 2011 Oscar-winning documentary, Inside Job (Cinematographer, Associate Producer, and Researcher) about the global financial crisis and documentary short Between Earth & Sky (Director, Producer, Cinematographer) about three young Iraqi refugee artists living in Syria, Jordan, and Egypt. A graduate of Yale University and UCLA Law School, Kalyanee has also worked as a legal consultant in Mozambique and Iraq.Read more about her work here at: The Pulitzer Center, The New York Times, ariverchangescourse.com and her new Facebook site, Fight for Areng Valley. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Traveled through Kratie, Sihanoukville, Otres Beach, Koh Rong Sanloem, Battambang, Siem Reap, Phnom Penh

29e épisode: A l’école Cambodgienne Nous sommes au Cambodge, à Battambang… A l’école on nous a appris l’hymne national ! Ces épisodes sont réalisés en procédé binaural! Cela vous permet de profiter d’une spatialisation...

28e épisode: Touristes parmi les touristes Nous sommes au Cambodge, entre Siem Reap et Battambang… Nous avons appris ici une comptine italienne ! Ces épisodes sont réalisés en procédé binaural! Cela vous permet de profiter...

Christina Jin is the founder of the soon-to-launch startup SpaceHitch. SpaceHitch connects people looking for rare products from abroad to travelers with extra luggage space. Check them out at www.spacehitch.com Recorded 4 April 2014 from San Francisco, California, USA; Battambang, Cambodia; and New York City, New York, USA Please vote for us as Podcast of the Month on Podcast Land! http://podcastland.com/podcasts/211078/walking-the-earth-podcast

We are officially templed-out after exploring the temples of Angkor Wat and Vietnam is lingering in our sights.To listen to the podcast click HERE!15th, 16th& 17th FebWe apologise for the time between posts, but it is purely due to the few days after our last post not warranting any real report. Unfortunately, we had our first run in with suspected food poisoning. We were too fearful to leave the room in Siem Reap and were living off a bare trickle of food, including tiny croissants, cheese biscuits and wagon wheel like biscuits called “choco pies”. This resulted in the Choco pie incident of 2013…… Even so, we were still in pretty high spirits and did enjoy the time relaxing (if you can call it that) even though the guilt of being so close yet so far to the temples was occasionally evident. In a way, we were lucky that we were both impeded by this illness at the same time. Sharing such a small room with a bathroom that seemed to amplify everything, has definitely cemented our friendship pretty solidly, unlike our bowel movements. Needing a reason to test our health, we felt it was necessary to visit “Pub Street” for a few drinks.18th FebAfter feeling up to the challenge, Casey decided to ride west of Siem Reap to visit some small temples that are older then the temples at Angkor, yet due to their size, don’t receive the same level of relevance of the larger, newer temples. Unfortunately for Casey, the tickets to the temples were not sold in this general direction, so the ride towards the temples was partially in vain even though he did get to enjoy an introduction to the Cambodian countryside. I, however, still not feeling up to the task of endeavouring too far from the safety of the room/bathroom, stayed behind. 19th FebWe both seemed to have recovered and decided to venture out towards the north-eastern temples, and following the suggestions of the Lonely Planet guide, would see the older, smaller temples first and leave the awe inspiring Angkor temples for the final day. After jumping on bikes and enthusiastically stopping off at every temple around the circuit and enjoying the individuality of each, the temples slowly started to morph into one, signaling an end to the day. After agreeing to meet a friend that we had made in Battambang on “Pub Street” that night, we again ventured out in to Siem Reap for a well-deserved Angkor beer.20th FebThe day had finally arrived! We were going to visit the Lonely Planet acclaimed eight wonder of the world! Angkor Wat definitely deserved this title. The sheer size of the moat that surrounded the temple of Angkor Wat was mesmerizing, as was the land bridge that was in place allowing tourists to cross the threshold. Obviously weathered through age, it was incredible to think about what these temples had been through on both a cultural and political level, and you couldn’t help wondering what the marvelous structures would say about the folly of man. Unfortunately, restorations were occurring at the entrance to Angkor Wat, which played a very spoiling role in the majority of the photos that were taken. However, we continued to traverse the highly preserved temples admiring the intricacies of even the smallest detail. We, unknowingly, had worn singlets and shorts that did not cover our shoulders or knees. This almost obvious point now, was the reason we were not allowed into the main temple. This prompted us to leave Angkor Wat at this point vowing that we would return to complete this pilgrimage we had charged upon ourselves. With a slight loss of spirit we continued onto the Bayon temple complex, which was a wonder in it’s own right. After watching sunset from this temple, we rode our bikes back to our hotel past the monkey-laden grounds and ruins that speckled the heavy foliage along our route. Looking forward to a dish I had seen in a menu the night before, a Khmer curry, Casey and I decided to spend a little more on dinner ($3.50 each) and try this dish that proved to be the most enjoyable we’d had in Cambodia thus far. Finding out that the bus to Kampong Cham City (Our next destination, designated the “Gateway to the North” by Lonely Planet) left at 7.15am the next morning, we decided to spend an additional night (taking us to the morning of the 22nd) so we could go back to Angkor Wat at sunrise and finish what we’d started.21st FebAfter hearing Casey’s alarm go off at both 5am and 5.30am and observing Casey consider getting up both times and then returning to the fetal position, I was provoked to wake him up knowing I wouldn’t hear the end of his disappointment if we had missed his big opportunity for a photo shoot. We again hired bikes and raced to Angkor Wat, where we both got briefly separated as I took a slightly different turn, however, we both got there and got to enjoy a rather overcast sunrise. Of course we now had our shoulders and knees covered, determined to enter the temple that we had been denied entry the day before. The temple didn’t open until 7.40am so we decided to source ourselves some breakfast. Seeing a man selling bread, we decided to buy two incredibly fresh bread rolls and two coconut buns. Not such an interesting fact, but the comments we got from two locals must have been one of the highlights of our trip thus far. The first man said, “Hello sir, you want water, another bread?” (It was yet to occur to us that this man did not sell bread) and then a woman that shouted, “Hello Mr big bread!” before entering into a fit of uncontrollable laughter. This made our day and definitely gave us something to raise our spirits even though we were both exhausted from the early wake up. We finally had an opportunity to see the temple, which definitely reinforced the beauty of this almost mythical site. One thing had crossed my mind over the last few days was where was the tree that Angelina Jolie was in front of in Tomb Raider. Unbeknown to us both, we had missed one temple! Ta Prohm was the temple that we had been imagining this whole time, a temple that had almost been lost in forest. This temple was beautiful and it was obvious why it was so iconic. Obviously this fact was known by about half of the tourist in Siem Reap, who were there in droves. Otherwise this place was truly magical, it was incredible to see the roots of trees intertwined with the temple structure, which had been so physically altered that each seemed symbiotic of the other. Feeling like we had finally seen every temple in the Siem Reap area, we called it a day and triumphantly returned to the hotel where we recuperated from our early morning and prepared for the journey we would undertake the following day. It would be sad to leave the hotel we had grown so accustom to, yet it was time to leave the room that hadn’t been cleaned since our arrival and was harbouring our filth. We’d also left a lasting impression with the hotel staff……22nd FebAgain, sleeping past the alarm, we were late to leave our hotel and reached the bus with a comment from the bus driver saying, “Come on, the party’s over!” Feeling a little guilty, we said our goodbyes to Siem Reap and prepared for our arrival in Kampong Cham City. After about a 7 hour journey we arrived in a town that was our first destination by the Mekong. It was completely empty and without much attraction, which was reflected by the single paragraph dedicated to the town in the Lonely Planet. We decided to go north the next day, which we were told left at noon.23rd FebWaking up leisurely at 9.30am and leaving the hotel room at 10.20am, we decided to go and book our bus trip and then have a quiet breakfast before we boarded the bus for 8 hours. When we arrived at the bus company we were quite shocked to realize that the bus arrived at 10.30, which was, at the time, two minutes away. Running back to the hotel, paying and then running fully loaded with our packs and other items, which we lacked time to pack, we arrived at the bus stop and waited for a bus that was luckily 10 minutes late. The bus was very nice, enjoying the Cambodian countryside as we headed northeast to Ban Lung. Exiting the bus at a very bizarre bus stop a few kilometres from town, we, with some friends we had made, continued to walk down the main street until we eventually approached the centre where we found accommodation in a nice guesthouse.24th FebFinding out there really wasn’t much to do in Ban Lung either, except to see a large volcanic crater lake called Boeng Yeak Laom. We set out to this lake with the two friends we had made the night before by foot (it was about 6km). It felt quite rewarding when we reached the lake and were able to enter the beautifully clean and refreshing water whilst marveling at the incredible formation of this crater. Casey decided to run back to the hotel from the lake as I returned with our evidently unfit friends, who really struggled with the elevated slopes returning us to the main road that returned us to town. We then organised a 6am bus to Phnom Penh, which is going to be our final destination of Cambodia before we progress into Vietnam. 25th FebThe bus to Phnom Penh must have been the most enduring so far. Not only was the bus not properly air-conditioned, but we both felt that they were employing some form of torture in the form of a Cambodian comical singing duo or Cambodian soap operas that involve someone either getting run over every few minutes or love triangles. We have, however, arrived in Phnom Penh in high spirits. It is completely different to any other Cambodian town we have visited and definitely has a high degree of western influence. We were elated to know that the room we booked actually included an air conditioner, a luxury usually declined due to the high price mark up of the room. And that brings us up to now. We officially feel we have seen enough temples to do us for a while and we are ready to leave Cambodia and experience a slightly different country. In saying that, we still have found the Cambodian people incredibly friendly and have definitely enjoyed our time here. We will spend the next day exploring Phnom Penh and seeing what it has to offer in contrast with the other Cambodian towns.We’ll be in touch soon. Our love goes out to our family and friends, please let us know how new jobs and moves are going via Facebook, you’re all never far from our thoughts.Keep posted.

Happy Valentine's Day!We have finally left the beach and are in our second country, Cambodia.To listen to the podcast click here!9th FebAfter waking up relatively late due to a long night of celebrations for Casey’s birthday, we had decided to stay in Koh Samet for two more nights. We found out that our current room has been previously booked, so we had to find some new accommodation. We walked around for about an hour in the rain trying to find a hotel, until we eventually found one just around the corner. Fortunately for us, the hotel was much nicer then the first and at the same price of 500 baht, or approximately A$16 for us both, was a steal. We inevitably spent the day relaxing by the beach reading, before Casey enjoyed a run on the beach. The day was then finished off by having dinner with some friends we’d made the day before, by the beach of course.10th FebAs our final day on Koh Samet, we decided to make it count with some serious beach work. I, unfortunately for me, was roomridden due to a very mild bout of the runs, the first victim of what I’m sure will inevitably reoccur during our trip. Luckily that passed within a few hours and I was able to join Casey on the beach where he had accrued additional sunburn whilst reading his book and taking photos as you have probably seen in the tabs above (if not, check them out!). We enjoyed a bit of a workout session on the beach before a light run and enjoyed our final night by having another dinner on the beach at a place we’d frequented every night bar one.11th FebWe were keen to go to Cambodia, and utilising the liberated Lonely Planet guide we had an extremely rough idea about how we intended to get there. We got off the island much later the expected and luckily were ushered to a minivan company, which did visa runs to Cambodia. They suggested we headed to the city Pailin, just across the border and then make our way to Battambang. We had no idea where Pailin was as it was not listed in the lonely planet, so we spent the next few hours on a bus that dropped us in a Thai city just near the border that we still have no real idea about. After waiting at an outdoor restaurant for an hour, we were both forced to learn our first real words in Thai, the words for “public toilet”. This was mainly due to Casey’s failed attempt of a hand rubbing gesture, which made a lady gesture towards a tap….. We caught another minivan to the Cambodian-Thai border, which was typical of a Thai town, happy people, colourful, graveled roads and buildings that I still would have considered pretty rudimentary, until we crossed the border and saw the ultimate contrast. The border crossing was relatively painless, but as we crossed, we were hounded by men pulling up on motorbikes for lifts and taxi rides on the now dirt road. We ended up acquiring the help of an English speaking tourist advisor (who obviously would get commission out of any sale he assisted in) we reluctantly paid for a taxi to Battambang as the suggested alternative was to stay in a hotel that looked like it would be robbed the second we fell asleep. The roads we travelled down were mostly ungraded as we avoided potholes after pothole as we passed houses that were now made of wood and straw in the most part, we could visually see the difference between Thailand and Cambodia, and the harsh history of the country really did start to become highly evident. The taxi driver was in fact one of the men that had been stalking us down the street earlier, yet through his limited English, we could tell that he was actually a really nice guy as he stopped off at picturesque locations so we could take photos. After working out the debacle of paying the driver in Thai Baht and American dollars, which we have now learnt is interchangeable with Cambodian currency, the Riel (1 to approx. 4000), we found a nice hotel. Battambang was obviously quite a touristy town, but it was a nice place to start in Cambodia.12th FebThe night before we had organised a Tuk Tuk with three other people to go around and see the local sights of Battambang for the day. We first ventured to the Bamboo train, which is just a rectangle formed by pieces of bamboo to utilise abandoned French train tracks. This was great to get a few pictures of the Cambodian countryside. We then went to a very old yet beautiful temple that was reached via a rather steep set of stairs at Phnom Banan. We then went to the only winery in Cambodia and had a wine tasting.  There is a reason there is only a single winery in Cambodia. I have a feeling we were drinking gasoline infused with grape juice…. Our final and most confronting destination so far was to a set of temples; bat infested caves and “The Killing Caves” at Phnom Sampeau. Visiting the latter definitely put things into perspective for us, as we learnt about the bloody atrocities committed by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge during their relatively recent reign. This did not completely hinder the enjoyment of seeing the temples in the area, visiting a monastery where monks were living and accidently disturbing numerous classes of students in a school as they all wanted to wave and say hello as we passed. We then watched a consistent stream of bats leave their cave for roughly 20 minutes. It was truly incredible to see them uniformly weave into the distance and even more interesting to watch from a platform next to the head of a 30 metre Buddha being carved into a cliff face. We then went back to town and enjoyed a traditional Cambodian dinner with our friends from the Tuk Tuk.13th FebWe decided to set out towards Siem Reap, which is the town that is within reach of Ankor Wat. We boarded a relatively small boat that uncomfortably took roughly 9 hours to reach Siem Reap port, passing by floating villages and the friendliest people, always waving and smiling. We then caught a Tuk Tuk into town finding out that most accommodation was full at this point, spending an hour with our packs trying to find a place to stay. We had to break the accommodation budget for the first night, yet we had a pretty nice air conditioned room. We ventured out into Siem Reap to discover how expectedly touristy it really was. There’s a street called “Pub street”, enough said. We visited the night markets, which is really just stall after stall of relatively similar merchandise such as the Khmer scarf.14th Feb – Valentine’s Day!That brings us to today, a day we have decided to relax and try to recover from the sunburn and peeling that has been inflicted on us whilst on Koh Samet and the boat ride from Battambang yesterday. We had a nice scrambled egg breakfast with the most amazing bread either of us was expecting in Asia (probably due to the French influence on Cambodia). We are preparing our next few nights here and our trip to Ankor Wat and the surrounding temples, which is one of the main reasons we really decided to come to South East Asia, hopefully it’ll live up to the hype. Unfortunately for the day, we are each other’s Valentines....We are loving the people we are meeting and the unexpected and different experiences we are already having. We can’t believe it’s only been 9 days. Hopefully it keeps up and you’ll keep reading about our adventures. Hope all is well back home, we both send our love.Make sure you check out the photos on the Cambodia page and add your e-mail address to the subscription box on the left to keep updated.Keep posted.

The Amateur Traveler talks to Noah Lederman of SomewhereOrBust.com about his recent trip to Cambodia. Noah visited Anchor Wat, Rabbit Island near Kep, Battambang and the bamboo trains and Phnom Penh and the sobering Tuol Sleng - S21 memorial.

The Amateur Traveler talks to Noah Lederman of SomewhereOrBust.com about his recent trip to Cambodia. Noah visited Anchor Wat, Rabbit Island near Kep, Battambang and the bamboo trains and Phnom Penh and the sobering Tuol Sleng - S21 memorial.

The Amateur Traveler talks to Noah Lederman of SomewhereOrBust.com about his recent trip to Cambodia. Noah visited Anchor Wat, Rabbit Island near Kep, Battambang and the bamboo trains and Phnom Penh and the sobering Tuol Sleng - S21 memorial.

The Amateur Traveler talks to Noah Lederman of SomewhereOrBust.com about his recent trip to Cambodia. Noah visited Anchor Wat, Rabbit Island near Kep, Battambang and the bamboo trains and Phnom Penh and the sobering Tuol Sleng - S21 memorial.

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