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A Floating Village

By The Salem Explorers | February 27, 2015 |

(Halle) The smell of fish filled the air as we boarded a wooden boat in Siem Reap, Cambodia. As we drifted down the man-made waterway, we maneuvered the boat around men, chin deep in the water trying to catch fish with nets. The canal led into Asia’s largest freshwater lake – the Boeung Tonle Sap…

Never Fall Down

By The Salem Explorers | February 19, 2015 |

(Halle) Arn Chorn-Pond was a survivor of the Cambodian genocide from 1975-1979. Patricia McCormick wrote a book called Never Fall Down about how Arn managed to stay alive during the long four years under the control of the Khmer Rouge. A total of two million people died, which is a quarter of the population. Arn…