Taking a year to vagabond through China and study Mandarin looks more and more like a wise and practical alternative to a prestigious internship with Lehman Brothers or Bear Sterns.


Youth travel programs are one of the most important investments we can make.  Please take a minute to read my...

Angkor Wat

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Well, where were we? We still had one morning to do in Bangkok before flying on to Phnom Penh (further refered to as Ping Pong). The Grand palace in bangkok deserves it's name. Absolutely beautiful and equaly impressive.One boat trip away back to our hotel and one quick Thai green curry...

ENTERING THE COUNTRY

Cambodia has two international gateways for arrival by air, Phnom Penh and Siem Reap, and a healthy selection of land borders with neighboring Thailand, Vietnam and Laos. Formalities at Cambodia’s international airports are traditionally smoother than at land borders, as the...

The years of fear and loathing are over. Right now, Cambodia is just about as hot as it gets on the global travel map. Peace has come to this beautiful yet...

[Note: originally posted here: <http://adventuresinseasia.blogspot.com/> on March 21st, 2008]

I am still in pain. Throbbing, unrelenting, raw pain. Parts of my body that I’ve never felt before are screaming in fury. It hurts down to my very soul and I’m going to have to finish writing this...

I choked on my chicken curry when she told me she
was 12.

She looked 6.

Unlike the US where nowadays, your average 12 year old looks
more like she’s 16, the reverse was the norm in Cambodia. Yet these girls had
been forced to grow up so quickly and experience things children aren’t
supposed to....

How would you stare death in the face?

With a look of confusion?

A look of sheer terror?

Pure denial?

Desperation?  

Anxiety?

I have seen how low man can go but also how high he can rise back up

Just returned from Cambodia where I was fortunate to get behind the scenes of sex trafficking as a photojournalist. Visited a couple shelters which houses rescued victims, had a few discussions with local NGOs and a private...

A sharp right hand turn off the paved main road, and we find ourselves trudging through muddy, unpaved back roads dozens of miles towards Krang Yaw. Bustling city activity and buildings are quickly replaced with seas of lush green rice fields. Worn out street bicycles replace motorbikes. We crane every...

Ever wanted to follow an impulse to the end of the earth and do something wonderful?  

My idea involves one of the least explored swaths of wilderness in Asia, vast upland forest along the border of Cambodia and Vietnam.  Because the elevation there is relatively high, nights are cool and the...

I've just
returned from the temples of Angkor Wat and I'm absolutely reeling from
the experience. Visiting such an ancient and incredible place could
only be compared to seeing the pyramids, Taj Mahal, or Machu Pichu;
places that you've seen so many times in postcards and photographs and
now...

A few years ago I met Robert McNamara, former Secretary of Defense and World Bank President, an architect of both the firebombing of Japan and the Vietnam War. McNamara is a very old man now, and has devoted the last years of his life to explaining his actions.

A few months ago, in Cambodia, I...

The Irawaddy Dolphins of Southeast Asia are shy, intelligent creatures with upward curving mouths that bestow a look of perpetual bemusement. Like so many other large mammals the world over, the river dolphin population has been decimated by human activity over the last century. Although the dolphins...

This essay poured out of me late one night in Cambodia. It's being translated into Italian and published at www.permalink.it, but I also want to post it here, in English, for the Matador community.

It's called...

ACCOUNTABILITY

Three years ago I ate lunch with Robert McNamara, Secretary of...

...or AK's to Furniture. Stumbled upon this story (with pics) about the "Peace Art" project in Cambodia