Do & Don't Practices - A guide from the Ministry of Tourism

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Do & Don't Practices - A guide from the Ministry of Tourism

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Not sure if this is new or not, but I've never seen a published copy anywhere, thought maybe they'd hand them out to tourists arriving at the airport?
Do & Don't Practices

A guide to socially responsible behaviour for visitors to Cambodia.

Published by the Ministry of Tourism
http://thesoriamoria.com/wp-content/upl ... cation=ufi
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PSD-Kiwi wrote:Not sure if this is new or not, but I've never seen a published copy anywhere, thought maybe they'd hand them out to tourists arriving at the airport?
Do & Don't Practices

A guide to socially responsible behaviour for visitors to Cambodia.

Published by the Ministry of Tourism
http://thesoriamoria.com/wp-content/upl ... cation=ufi
And this, dear Khmer friends, is a great example of irony.

"Barang visitors should not litter, deforest, eat wildlife..."

I'd love to buy some printed copies of that if anyone sees them in print.
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Excellent find. The irony is great - littering and deforestation lol - hope they have copies in chinese and vietnamese.

However, unfortunately it seems that some tourists really need to read this guide. They also need to add an update on the DONTs - ride around naked on a motorbike or take porno photos at Angkor Wat come to mind. They do say that you shouldn't sell drugs, but forgot to add "don't sell drugs with a bad hairdo" - which seems obvious, but still needs saying as we've seen recently.
Plenty more "don'ts" to add, like "don't think your meth-head girlfriend is good marriage material" etc. Maybe we should rewrite it ?
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woah... shocker... i thought it was about jews...
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LoL, I suspected that this was a joke! Then I read that it was published by the Cambodian "Ministry of Tourism...which confirmed my suspicions! !

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potty wrote:woah... shocker... i thought it was about jews...
You do seem fixated... :facepalm:
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