Battambang...Cambodia's second largest city. But you'd never know it when you get here. It's quiet, slow, and peaceful without much tourism going on. To get here, however, was an adventure in itself. I took the express boat from Siem Reap up the Sangkar river. Let me just say there was nothing "express" about it. The word express was painted on the side of the boat but that's about it. We were all told different times on how long it would take...I was told five h...

Built between 1113 and 1150, Angkor Wat is the largest religious monument in the world. And this is no doubt one of humankind's most amazing architectural achievements. It is said to be a complete microcosm of the Hindu universe. Whatever...I just think it's really damn cool. Some of the amazing highlights include over 600 meters of carving right into the stone wall and about 2000 apsaras which are these sexy celestial maidens carved all over the place. Clearly...

One of the first things I did when I got to Siem Reap was rent a bicycle. I thought it would be cool to explore the temples at my own pace under my own power. Only then did I actually look at a map. I was surprised to learn that the scale was showing miles between locations...not a few hundred yards like I thought. What I didn't know ís that Angkor is not a collection of temples built together, it was a huge thriving metropolis of over a million people back ...

Stay on the path! No, not to enlightenment...the actual path. Cambodia is one of the most "land mined" countries in the world! One thing I won't be doing here is going for a walk in the woods or some random field...there are still hundreds of thousand of mines still out there left over from the war against Pol Pot's killing regime, the Khmer Rouge. Unfortunately, it's usually children playing or farmers that happen upon them and thousands still get killed or los...