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Halloween in Siem Reap

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Halloween as an American holiday that has changed over the years.   When I was a kid, I feel like it was a kid focused day, with kids dressing up in their favorite character or something.   We had those sticky plastic suits with the thin vacuum-formed plastic masks that might last the night but wouldn’t last much longer than that. I’m not sure where everyone else was, I didn’t pay attention to other people.   I went through a stage when I would make my own costumes: I was a pilot in a plane, a chicken drum stick…this continued unto I was married and a full on adult when I was a giant singing cyber cow, a space shuttle (accompanies by Vincent dress as an astronaut), a football player with Liam and my favorite of all A puppet show.   Recent years I’ve seen that Halloween has become really focused on gory, scary and wicked thing.   I don’t like it. I’ve never thought horror/terror-based entertainment was too fun and I prefer fun Halloween. I guess you s...
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Elephants of Kulen Mountain

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On my last weekend here I took the day to hang out with some elephants. Not much more to say than that. I when to the Kulen mountain elephant preserve. They have nine elephants, seven female and two male Asian elephants.  The over all population in Cambodia is not doing too well. The guide told us that there are around 400 elephants in country, including wild, preserve captive and zoos.  Which is way less than the populations in Thailand, Vietnam and Loas; which all number in the thousands. It seems that many of the elephants that use to live in Cambodia, understood that something bad was happening during the Khmer Rouge and took off to these other countries and haven’t come back yet. I’m not sure that true, but they are very smart and probably know more than we think.  Anyway, the Kulen Mountain is about an hour drive outside the city. The mountain is a really population place to visit, which we did on the last trip with Vincent and Liam.   The elephant preserv...
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