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Cambodia
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"The visions of Cambodia always return - in colours, in people dying, in the dignity of the women toiling in the rice fields, in the glitter of dusk over the Mekong, in the barefoot children playing tag in the streets. Phnom Pehn in early 1970 was ravishing: Buddhist monks in saffron robes and shaven heads walking down avenues of blossom-scented trees; schoolgirls in white blouses and blue skirts pedalling past with dazzling smiles, offering garlands of jasmine to have their pictures taken; lovers strolling in the evening along the placid river bank by the old Royal Palace; elephant rides in a park; tinkling bells coming from the shrine on top of the mound from which the city takes its name."
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-- Jon Swain - "River Of Time"
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