CAMBODIA
Cambodia is a country that has tested its limits, and it still wears the scars. Like a person awaking from a bad dream Cambodia is haunted by memory but grateful for the beauty of a new day.
 

Cambodia is a nation trying to reach forward and back at the same time. Even as the country dreams of joining the ASEAN tiger pack it is struggling to rebuild centuries of religion and culture that the Khmer Rouge decimated during their manical rule. See Below the surface

Phnom Penh is still a city where old men bicycling down narrow lanes hawk fresh bread. Such simplicity is perfectly counter-pointed by the elegant grandeur of the Palace complex where the revered King Norodom Sihanouk lives...and some say still plots against his bete noir, Prime Minister Hun Sen.

Bicycles to motos to.....Cambodia is betting free trade will pave the way to development. In September 2002 it became the world's first poor country to join the WTO. See Cambodia in the WTO.

Reviving an old tradition, many young Cambodians are spending at least a few months in monks robes.
Cambodia has the largest collection of Hindu temples in the world outside India. The famed Angkor Wat is the most magnificient.
The eerie Bayon Temple in Siam Reap, near the Angkor Wat, is carved with the image of King Jayavarman II.