Travel Guide:cambodia
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I Bought an Island in Cambodia for $15,000 and Changed My Life
This story is being featured as part of our “Yahoo Best of 2015” series. It was originally published on May 26, 2015.
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No Flash! Naked Selfies Banned at Famous Monument
Bad tourist behavior has led to a new code of conduct at Angkor Wat, including a prohibition on nudity. You’re going to have to keep your clothes on at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat now. Last winter, two Arizona sisters were arrested, fined, and banned for pulling their pants down and mooning the sacred temple complex in Cambodia.
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I Gave Up My $120K Job to Build a Skate Park in Cambodia
Mika Jones left a construction job in Australia and moved to Cambodia to build a skate park. In the hip beach town of Sihanoukville in Cambodia, the Australia native is building a specially designed skate zone that will be a community center for local Khmer kids.
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11 Hotel Breakfasts Worth Traveling the Globe For
In fact, these hotel restaurants boast prized dishes guests wait in line for — you may even need reservations (for hotel breakfast, people!). Miss Jean Kelly, maitre de of Tradewinds restaurant at Peter Island Resort in the British Virgin Islands, has been perfecting her coconut French toast for so long — almost 40 years! — that it’s become somewhat of a legend on the islands.
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Tourists Posing Nude at Temples Infuriate Cambodians
Cambodia’s most popular tourist attraction - the complex of ancient temples that includes Angkor Wat - is suffering from a form of overexposure: At least five foreign visitors have been arrested and deported this year for taking nude photos at the sacred sites. Authorities have no tolerance for people stripping down at Angkor Archaeological Park, a sprawling, centuries-old UNESCO World Heritage Site that drew 2 million visitors last year.
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Don't Call it a Cruise: Micro-Ship Takes You Up Close to Cambodia, in Style
People are always saying how much they aren’t “cruise people.” Whether they have sailed on a ship or just watched a behemoth pull out of port, they think: nope, buffets and floating casinos — not for me. The branding wizards are still working out the semantics, but when it comes to tiny passenger boats, perhaps they should not be called cruise ships at all. When Francesco Galli Zugaro set out to build his first micro-ship, the 12-suite Aqua Amazon, in 2007, he certainly didn’t have those cruis
