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Lusso | 6 Feb 2013

Our tuk-tuk driver goes the wrong way down streets, against the oncoming traffic of entire families on motorbikes and cycle rickshaws taking ladies to work. “Quicker?,” he grins. Our first stop is the 19th-century Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda. “Must wear,” insists the guide, handing me a sarong to cover my bare legs. And it’s worth the sortorial indignity to see the ochre palace with turquoise roof, silver floor tiles and Emerald Buddha. Welcome to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia.

• Travel: Asia/ Oceania