Phnom Penh, Cambodia 2023 vs. 2000 I first arrived in Phnom Penh in February of 2000 in the back of a pick-up truck and covered head to toe in red dust from a 12-hour ride along the rough dirt track that served as Cambodia’s national highway. The city then had the feel of a wildContinue reading “The Transformation of Phnom Penh”
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Slum Changes in Phnom Penh
I found the slums of Phnom Penh beautiful in their way decades ago when I was first in Cambodia. It was a chaotic collection of wooden houses on stilts with tin and thatched roofs surrounding a swamp, and narrow dirt pathways meandered through the lives of the people that lived there, chickens pecking at theContinue reading “Slum Changes in Phnom Penh”
