Sweden, with its surreal perfection, seems almost Utopian. Flanked by a long coastline and the Gulf Stream on one side, the Scandinavian mountains on the other, dense forests in the North and the cluster of islands in the Stockholm Archipelago...

As the mighty Mekong river winds itself through many a landscape, it enters, as its penultimate stop, Cambodia. This country, steeped in history from almost the beginning of human civilization, abounds in magnificent temple complexes like the Angkor Wat, has...