A somber trip to the Killing Fields – Phnom Penh, Cambodia

A graveyard where thousands of people – men, women, and children – died a brutal death and lay forgotten, just one of many carcasses in a hole in the ground.

Choeung Ek is one of the multiple sites in Cambodia where collectively more than a million people were killed and buried by the Communist Khmer Rouge regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Cambodian Civil War.  Continue reading “A somber trip to the Killing Fields – Phnom Penh, Cambodia”

Welcome to Asia – Dunked in Bangkok, Thailand

Bangkok is a city with so many sides – there’s the busy side, the laidback side, the shopping side, the foodie side, the party side, and the cultural side (among so many more, I’m sure).

My first inkling that Bangkok was going to be a surprise to me came when I got in a taxi fresh out of the airport, and Michael Jackson started playing on the radio, the driver humming and nodding along to it.  Continue reading “Welcome to Asia – Dunked in Bangkok, Thailand”