For many travelers visiting a country wracked by the scourges of war, famine, or poverty, it is an overwhelming experience.
My own visit to Cambodia earlier this year provoked a variety of emotions in me: from the shock of begging lepers in the streets of Phnom Penh, to the outrage of hearing personal accounts of the Khmer Rouge and their systematic genocide in the late 1970’s. I even bought one dollar flutes from children in the ruins of Angkor Wat, arguably out of my own personal guilt.