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Mason, Walter.

Destination Cambodia : adventures in the kingdom / Walter Mason.

Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2013.

xvi, 266 p. ; 20 cm.

Join intrepid traveller, Walter Mason - author of Destination Saigon - on a colourful adventure to one of the world's hottest new destinations. Meet taxi drivers, writers, hip-hop stars and monks as he traverses this extraordinarily beautiful country.

Mason, Walter -- Travel.

Travel -- Anecdotes.

Travel writing.

Cambodia -- Description and travel.

Cambodia -- Social life and customs.

Looking for Pek Vannak -- A gathering of monks -- The truck driver and his ghost -- Powerful medicine -- Yon -- The Bayon Temple -- Sunrise at Angkor Wat -- The Chinese chroniclers -- The perils of being well read -- Saigon 2007 -- The museum at Wat Phnom -- Monks and excellencies -- Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum -- The Buddha's eyebrow -- Scheduled ambition -- Pyongyang Restaurant -- Choueng Ek Killing Field -- The wonders of Sorya -- Honeysuckle garland -- Early morning in Phnom Penh -- Rice to spare -- My heart belongs to daddy -- Phnom Penh's oldest hooker -- Talk of the town -- Chanpal -- The young writer -- Korat -- The Angkor Princess -- Bull's penis -- Kmer New Year -- Ways of helping -- The Fruit Girls -- Prayer breakfast in Svay Sisophon -- Hot, hot! -- Going back to Siem Reap -- Falling in with the right crowd -- The fortune teller -- The way home.

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