Feeding the Khmi Street kids

There are 3 little kids I met in the Market of Siem Reap that I saw sleeping on the street and hussling tourists for money. Instead of handing money I took them for a meal of fried rice and iced water.

Hoi An- Vietnam

Bike Riding in Hoi An Village
Hoi An Grandma
Hoi An street-- houses reminded me of a cross between the french quarter and spanish villas
Hoi An veggie market

Fair Trade Shop I Found
Hoi An Resident
Bike Riding my life away

My Hoi An sanctuary

Kung Fu Movies on a 10hr bus ride in 3 languages

My 10 hr bus ride from Sihanoukville to Siem Reap with a Monk

Little Khmi Children bike racing

This reminded me of my childhood in Guyana. A mini vid taken on the way to Angkor Wat from my Tuk Tuk of the little Khmi children racing to and from school on gorgeous sunny day !!Beautiful!

NYE in Can Tho on the Mekong River, Vietnam

Leaving the Kingdom of Cambodia with a smile in flip flops

Leaving the Kingdom of Cambodia with a smile in flip flops with a shaky video on the Tarmac

Angkor Wat- The Ancient Cambodian Kingdom

Many of you may know of Angkor Wat as the place that Angelina Jolie filmed Tomb Raider. It was indeed an ancient kingdom for the Khmi People

Between the 12th and 15th centuries, the great Khmer Empire spread over what are now parts of Laos and Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. Its center was Angkor, the home of the kings, temples, fountains and gold.

A series of attacks by the Siamese and exhaustion of the land by over farming led to the abandonment of the city in the early 15th century, historians believe.

That's when most of Angkor fell victim to the jungle for 400 years. There it sat, while nations rose and fell, while America was discovered, while Shakespeare wrote "Hamlet."

When French archaeologists in the late 19th century rediscovered Angkor and started pulling the vines away and looking at what remained, they were astonished. We still are.

It takes all day for even a bare-bones tour. You can start before sunrise and watch the sun come up over the towers of Angkor Wat, stay all day, then watch the sun go down from a hill nearby.

Some of the ruins have been sufficiently restored so that you can wander the halls and climb the steps. Yet most are only partly put back together, giving the ruins a tumble down feel, as if you'd just stopped by after an earthquake.

Angkor Wat, built in the early 12th century by King Suryavarman II, is the star of Angkor. But I preferred the Bayon, a nearby temple with 49 towers emblazoned with nearly 200 huge carved images of a pleasantly smiling face. Historians believe the images represent either King Jayavarman VII, who built the temple in the late 12th century, or the Buddhist "compassionate being" Lokesvara, or both.

I must be a Cambodian Girl #1

Mistaken for a local whenever I've travelled in South East Asia, I encountered this man in a restaurant about an hour after I stepped off the plane into the Kingdom of Cambodia and right before I took a 6 hr car ride to Sihanoukville beach with two completely unknown Khmi Men. This smiley man was convinced I was a Cambodian girl. I give thanks to my mixed roots of African, Indian and Chinese for this International compliments. Blending in on this trip has been a beautiful experience

Vietnamese Dragon Dance on New Years Eve in Can THo