Over the glittering Tonle Sap River. Beyond the hustling noise, dazzle and construction rebirth of capital city Phnom Penh. Past rice fields, faded sentinel temples and the schoolyards where row after neat row of bicycles lean in anticipation of their owners. Across roadways that mesh patches of sleek highway with rut-pocked red-dirt paths.
This is the way to Cambodia’s future.
Six hours deep into the drive, Phnom Penh has disappeared into vague memory. Gritty towns give way to verdant pepper, coffee, cashew and rubber farms. Farms fade to a dustier savannah-like scrub-and-shrub landscape, long stripped of its timber. This is the way to Cambodia’s Mondulkiri Province…find out why I was there https://kiwanismagazine.org/2016/01/11/pushing-potential/
Amy Martin 