Beng Melea
Our last day at the Angkor temples in Cambodia was definitely the most incredible, we went off the beaten path and out into the jungle. Our last stop was Beng Melea, a temple that has almost completely collapsed and the...
Sunrise at Angkor
On our third day in Siem Reap, we woke up at 4:30 am and took a tuk-tuk in the dark to get to Angkor Wat before sunrise. It was pitch black when we arrived, and we slowly felt our way...
Block Printing: The Process
Have you been wanting to learn how to block print? I wrote an article for the blog Oh So Beautiful Paper on the process of block printing, and it was published last week. I thought I would put it up...
Khmer Traditional Textiles
While in Siem Reap I did my second textile visit of the trip, to the Institute for Khmer Traditional Textiles, or IKTT. The center was started in 1996 by Kikuo Morimoto, a Japanese man who had studied Cambodian weaving and...
Riding the Norry
In Battambang, Cambodia, we did a day trip in the countryside on the backs of motorcycles, ending our trip at the norry, a makeshift bamboo train that runs on the Cambodia Railway tracks. Cambodia has no good train system, but...
