Meganduma

I founded www.YouTours.com after a trip to Southeast Asia in late 2010. YouTours.com is a platform for sharing self-guided tours. The Mission? To make sure no good story goes untold.

Prior to that, I was a trial lawyer who loved to blog about wine (www.WineForBlondes.com), travel, and learn anything I could about the human experience. In November, 2010, while traveling through Cambodia, I met a 45-year-old tour guide named Than who would change the course of my life's work.

Than had survived the brutal regime of the Khmer Rouge, a communist group which occupied Cambodia in the 1970's. His story was the most remarkable and heroic thing I'd heard in my life. It was the best tour I had ever been on.

A day later, we traveled to Angkor Wat to check out the majestic temples, one of the eight wonders of the world. We hired a tour guide with high hopes that Angkor would reveal more amazing and touching stories. Due to the lame tour guide, it did not. Day wasted. When we got back to our hotel, I googl...