Travel | Photography

Mystical, Magical Cambodia

No one wants to die on vacation

Bayon Temple in Siem Reap — Photo by author

The Last Day

I spent the last 12 hours non-stop between the bed and the bathroom, my body a furnace of fever, moaning in agony with dysentery, vomiting, and achy joints — willing myself not to die here in this apartment leaving my friend to find my lifeless body.