Central Market Phnom Penh

When we arrived in Phnom Penh this time we decided to stay a few n ights. We stayed in a lovely hotel right in the middle of town - a treat as a Christmas present from Abs' mum and nan (THANK YOU!) Phnom Penh is the least high rise of the capital cities we've visited but most of it os fairly mpdern (probably something to do with having to rebuild …

Ah Cambodia. Such a beautiful country but with such a sad history. We could see the difference from Vietnam as soon as we crossed the border. Not that Vietnam is different in a bad way. The land is very flat, making it ideal for farming and rice paddies which are all you can see. The countryside is beautiful, really lush with dense jungle starting …

Feeling adventurous, we decided to rent bikes for the day and bike to Baray lake, a manmade reservoir/local swimming spot. We laughed off the nice warnings from the bell hop about it being too far to bike to in the heat and sun. The 17 km ride there went fairly well as we enjoyed seeing the country side and local villages. We even ran into a few …

I got a bus to Phnom Penh, which took about 6 hours on horrible roads, but I arrived eventually. I didn't book anywhere to stay, but I'd heard that Mad Monkey was the best hostel, but when I arrived it was fully booked, so they sent me to a hostel near by, called the White Rabbit Guesthouse. This guesthouse was fairly new and the dorm room …

We arrived in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia after a 6 hour bus ride through the Cambodian countryside. There was plentiful proof of the widespread poverty in Cambodia along the road which was almost entirely in farming land. It's alarming how little of the natural jungle there is in Cambodia which has been replaced by hay, cattle and rice …

Have been in PP for 2 months now and I LOVE IT!! Tuktuks, motos, food, people, cheap clothes! Eventually I would like to own a house near Riverside.

The people here are extremely nice; to a fault, i.e. as an outsider you'll always have to return the favor even if they are tricking you, or worse trying to kidnap you. Unlike Portugal, it …

We're not sure if it made the news in the U.K. but the former King of Cambodia died on 15th October 2012 whilst he was away on a state visit in China. He journeyed back into Phnom Penh, Cambodia on 17th October 2012, we journeyed into Phnom Penh, Cambodia on 17th October 2012 and the people of Cambodia also travelled to Phnom Penh on 17th October …

Saturday. Lee from work has kindly offered to show me Central Market (she needs to go anyway to get her glasses fixed).

She collects me from my hotel at half 10 and we get a tuk tuk to the market. It is an unusual looking building, very art deco. Inside is huge!! We meet up with Becky, a fellow AFID volunteer who arrived on Thursday and is …

Today I had to check out of my lovely room at the lovely Teahouse Asian Urban Spa Resort. I get a tuk tuk to my new accomodation - Blue Dog Hostel.

On arrival, Rose tells me that they have doubled booked my room so could I go in another for a couple of nights. It is a VERY basic twin room with a VERY basic shared bathroom. Coming from such …

Evening all. I am proud to say i am laying in bed already and it is only 8.56pm.

Well talk about delayed travel lag!! It really got the better of me today and I was comatosed until mid day.. I woke up not having a clue where i was, i didn't even have the time which was rather scary. Thank god for 6.

After i pulled myself out of …

... touts M heads off to find some accommodation while L guards the bags. We end up at the Royal Hotel which is right next to the central market and the room has cable TV and fridge all for $5/night! Stock up the fridge at the nearby booze shop and head back ...

... bit you can see is held together by sellotape. Haha. Not a lot else to say about it really. We then went to the massive Central Market which was, well, massive. I (EW) got my bra fixed by a Cambodian woman, theres always loads of them sat at sewing ...

... how poor some humans can treat their own kind. These people were murdered for what? We got our driver to drop us off at the Central Market for some shopping. But sadly it was all the same crap and we are a bit sick of shopping by then. The novelty ...

... a variety of food, though we were too chicken and stuck to eating at restaurants for fear of getting sick.  The Central Market sold everything:   The usual fruits and vegetables, various types of meats hanging from hooks, live fish flopping ...

... in Cambodia (27 metres high) and pagodas on the site date back to 1373. Before leaving town we also stopped at the central market, a bizarrely designed Art Deco structure that sits like some domed monster in the bustle of traffic, waiting to rise up and ...

The bus trip back to Phnom Penh from Battambang was uneventful, until we stopped just before we reached the airport (some 12km away from central market) and were told to get off. I was later told that this was because of the crowds in town for the Water ...

... side, at least people can stay with their families and not live in fear. Generally. A man was shot dead on a motorbike outside central market at 11am one day last week. The killer wanted a free motorbike. So that sort of sums up how I've been ...

... I went for a short walk to Psar Tuol Tom Pong, otherwise known as the "Russian Market". It's not as huge and interesting as the Central Market, but it has some bargains, and I picked up a few very cheap shirts nd pants, as well as a few DVD's. However, ...

... disturbing. Now we've got all that pre-film nonsense out of the way we can start to tell you what we did in Phnom Penh and all about Cambodia's dark history. Our day in Phnom Penh was set out for us to see the tourist lure that is the Choeung Ek Killing ...

... Wat Phnom (the hilltop pagoda which gave the city its name) and the newly painted Wat Lang Ka. The ugly beehive like Central Market is a great place to explore and bargain for jewellery, antiques or the ubiquitous kramas (checked cotton scarves). And of ...