Siam Reap is a great city, mixing the old and new Orient, and old and new backpackers. The Siam Reap river flows through the city like warm khaki blood through silted up veins. All human life is in or on the banks of the river. It is literally teeming. We have raised over 100,000 pounds for the victims of landmine clearance. Some of the intrepid de-miners are amputees who, fitted with plastic prosthetics, want to make the ground safer for others than it was for them. Some amputees move about in specially adapted bikes but most stay out of sight, as disability is mostly hidden away in Cambodia. Apart from some charity given our through the temples, support services are non-existent. As the sun sets, we eat fish amok at the Cafe Indochine, and are back in touch with fun-loving hustling and bustling Cambodia, which is never more than a street or a glance away.
This blog was written by Anthony Douglas. Experience Travel are really pleased to sponsor Anthony as he cycles through Vietnam and Cambodia to raise money for MAG International (Mines Advisory Group); who deliver landmine clearance programmes in former war-affected countries. MAG aims to make land blighted by war safe again for farming, light industry and for making towns and villages habitable again.’
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