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Travel Essays by Simon Slater
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“The first I heard of the beach was in Bangkok, on the Ko Sanh Road.”― Alex Garland, The Beach ”What’s your passion?” an inquisitive new roommate asked as I was rummaging through the jumbled mess of my backpack. It was January 2015, and we’d both recently arrived at beach guesthouse ‘Done Right’, on the outskirts of Cambodian…
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There’s a point in time after yet another reckless headfirst turn into a hurtling fury of construction vehicles that your heart ceases to alien-burst through your chest and you just decide to lean back and accept your fate. As with other aspects of Cambodia’s recent development, the journey along the two-lane highway between Phnom Penh…
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Why do we travel? Is it to escape our daily routine? Perhaps it’s to see the world and how others live. Some of us travel for an extended holiday while others wish to challenge themselves by living economically along the road less traveled. On a recent trip to Cambodia, I desired to do all of…
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Two years after taking one of my favorite photographs, I travel back to see the girl in the picture, with a surprise in store.
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A journey of the soul through the heart of Cambodia. Shot in and around Kampot and Kampong Cham province. Model: Reyna Resognia.
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Too often on the increasingly congested highway of the Southeast Asian banana pancake trail, you hear of some ‘amazing’ place that people have just returned from. Some wide-eyed European backpacker will excitedly drop this adjective with a, eye-rolling, head-bobbing conviction as if they’d been to heaven and back. I was in Sihanoukville, a rapidly touristed…
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