Siem Reap Human Connections

Left, left, then straight, you said without looking up

I had a paper map and no idea which way the river was, in a lane off Psar Chas Old Market on a Friday around 5pm. You were folding a blue krama on a plastic stool and, without a word, pointed with your chin. I frowned. You held up two fingers and said, left, left, then straight. I walked for exactly ten minutes. The ri...