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  • Apr 30, 2017

Phnom Penh’s White Building

White Building on Samdach Sothearos Boulevard, Phnom Penh, 2011. Photo by Jonas Hansel.

When I heard Phnom Penh wasn’t a walking city, I bought a good pair of shoes. The evidence on my feet at the day’s end—after dodging motorbikes, piles of trash, street meat smoke, tuktuk offers—was par for the course.