Category: Travel


  • Does a solo trip have to be outside your own country?

    Imagine a 19-year-old girl who always sticks with her family decides to go on a solo travel trip inside her own or to a foreign country. What difference do you think it makes for the girl? It is not that her parents limit her freedom to move around at her will. But she gets used…

    Continue reading


  • Koh Rong Sanloem is calling!

    Want your own piece of paradise this summer in Cambodia? You do not need to travel far to these white beaches where sometimes crowds are thin to non-existent, the sea waters crystal clear, and the sands bright white. The New Year’s Day observed on January 1st every year is the most exciting time of the year…

    Continue reading


  • Empowered Chong Community: Cultural Preservation and Areng Development

    By Kakada Kuy Areng Valley (Cambodia): Called by the Prime Minister Hun Sen the ‘Battery Province,’ Koh Kong has potential for hydropower dam construction projects. Areng dam is one of the plans. However, there have been conflicts caused by its immense natural and cultural impacts to the local indigenous community. Once the dam is constructed, 1,500…

    Continue reading


  • Pailin: Cambodia’s Long Forgotten Gem

    Pailin, a province in western Cambodia, holds a special place in my heart. When my mother was a teen, she was forced to go to Pailin with a big troop of other young non-fighting female Khmer Rouge cadres to transport as much as food as possible back to Battambang base where she and her family were ordered to stay.…

    Continue reading