miles of abbie

According to the all-knowing Wikipedia, voluntourism is “travel which includes volunteering for a charitable cause”.  For many, like me, voluntourism is a way to combine volunteering and traveling, creating a more meaningful experience.
This past July I volunteered for 10 days in Cambodia through United Planet, one of many non-profits that organize volunteer trips across the [...]

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July 12
$2.50 breakfast at the Temple Club. Amazing. A picture is better than a description…

We went to the Bodia Spa and got a 1 hour massage, body exfoliation, and 1 hour facial, AND a pedicure. Amazing.
July 13
We dug at ditch at Khmer Chewy Khmer today and saw a crab. It looked [...]

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July 9
This time we weren’t supposed to go to the school because the king was coming, and of course, Phaly wanted us to see the king. The staff at the Shining Angkor didn’t know anything about it, so Kristen and I went on another adventure into town. We looked around and went to the Lucky [...]

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July 7
Phaly told us not to come to the school this morning because there was a huge parade celebrating Angkor’s Wat’s 1 year anniversary for being recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. He was so proud of his country and the history and he thought it was more important for us to see that [...]

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I scrunched my nose and closed my eyes.
“And that’s your first experience with burning trash,” Sam said as we were riding back to the hotel. Sam, the United Planet country coordinator, had just met me at the airport and we were in the tuk-tuk on our way back to the hotel. For the millionth time [...]

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