Cambodia to Vietnam

From Cambodia I traveled to Saigon, Vietnam (now known as Ho Chi Minh City).

The War Remnants Museum was very moving...

I think I have to update my ideas about what communism is...

From Saigon I traveled north along the coast of the South China sea.

I arrived in Hanoi in northern Vietnam by train.  On the train I met three friendly locals - I don't remember their names in Vietnamese but the two women's names translate to "river" and "grass," they told me, and the man's name translates to "tailor."

Traveling in Cambodia

Here are a few more pictures from temples in the Angkor area:

The two pictures below show the causeway leading to Angkor Wat.  My pictures of Angkor Wat itself didn't turn out very well - you can see much better ones by doing a Google image search.

I traveled by boat to a town called Batambang, passing through many fishing villages.

Some fellow passengers:

Phnom Penh, the capitol of Cambodia:

Angkor, Cambodia

My first stop in Cambodia has been Siem Reap, the closest city to the temple complexes at Angkor.  I've spent one day exploring the area so far and I haven't seen the most famous temple (Angkor Wat) yet - the pictures below are from some of the neighboring temples.

One tourist group consisted of monks - they were way more photogenic than everyone else.

At the heart of one temple...

Many historical monuments were destroyed by the brutal Khmer Rouge that controlled Cambodia in the late seventies, but they spared the Angkor temples.  It has been heart-wrenching to see street vendors whose hands, according to signs on their carts, were cut off by the Khmer Rouge.