Cambodia has more child merchants and beggars than any Southeast Asian country I’ve visited. In Thailand, I have not encountered a single one. In Laos, only on Wat Phussy in Luang Prabang and that was after they finished school. And in Vietnam, only the hilltribes of Sapa. Sometimes, it was hard not to get annoyed [...]

Cambodia was the Southeast Asian country I was most looking forward to visiting. In the end, I was very glad to have visited but also relieved to leave. Rural Cambodia is lovely while urban Cambodia is thought-provoking, depressing and angering. This is a country trying to move away from its past, but everywhere you turn [...]