Travel Guiding Cambodia

Cambodia often brings to mind one of two images: The Killing Fields or Angkor Wat, both at once overwhelming and must-sees. However, Cambodia is booming and offers a plethora of faculty-led program possibilities that make these two pieces of a much larger puzzle.

Programs include components as fascinating as: volunteering at an elephant camp in rural Cambodia; dinner with a ramork (tuk-tuk) driver and his family in his home; an in-depth photography service learning workshop at a school for orphaned children near Angkor Wat; a spectacular hike and overnight meditation class with an English-speaking Master at a rural pagoda; a volunteer experience at a bear rescue center; bike riding on an island in the middle of the Mekong River at sunset; bird watching outside of Siem Reap; dinner with one of the few remaining survivors of the S-21 torture camp in Phnom Penh; a workshop with a rap and dance group created to help keep young boys out of trouble and off the streets; and, of course, a couple of days at one of the true wonders of the world, the Angkor temple complex — by ramork, not by bus.

A six-week, Wildlife and Photography faculty-led program in January, 2013 will incorporate most of the components above, starting with a visit to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam. HCMC is a six-hour drive from Phonm Penh. Academic Experiences Abroad (AEA) has been managing faculty-led programs to Cambodia since 2007.

Source - languagemagazine