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Don't rest on your laurels!

There used to be a time in our childhood when we used to look forward to religious festivities. Besides being a holiday, it was also a time of free food and free pocket money. That was the time when waited with anticipation for our neighbours to call us to their homes for merriment. All that just memories of a distant era. Now, a long holiday with the lure of cheap flights is the time we all look forward to planning our next holiday destination. With the same mindset, my cousin and I zeroed in on Siem Reap, the town closest to ruins of an ancient Hindu which existed about a thousand years ago. It was lost in the annals of time also to be discovered by a Frenchman by accident during his expedition through the Mekong River to catch butterflies! So goes the legend! Nature at its best for a picture perfect postcard They still live under the euphoria that they were the rulers of the world; that their ancestors were the most civilised in the region and that their neighbouring ...