Wat Phnom Phnom Penh

After a remarkably straightforward journey from Ho Chi Minh to Phnom Penh, marred only by a bit of ankle biting by some resident bugs on the bus, we are all ready to experience a brand new country, which we are expecting to combine the laid back Laos attitude with the Vietnamese hustle and bustle. We are pretty much right - smiling, shouting tuk …

Arriving at Phnom Penh we negotiated a tuk-tuk with another backpacker to get to our hotel as it was really, really hot to walk and we didn't know where to go exactly. We’d booked the hotel on the day before and it was quite cheap for a double room.

Phnom Penh is a really beautiful city. It’s organized and very golden, much …

A bit strange here: USD and Riel are both accepted in the country. IF you take out money from the ATM, it's in USD. Strange and a bit confusing to figure out how much to pay in combination currencies, say $1.68.

Eric (Toronto), whom I met in the Hanoi hostel, came to my hostel. Had lunch together in the old market. Strolled along the …

Awake at 3am and had to go back to sleep until it was light. Had a nice breakfast by the pool, fruit and scrambled eggs. Well cook and nice coffee to start the day.
Took a tuk tuk (excuse the alliteration) to Wat Phnom, streets were quieter because of the election most people were in queues to vote. Hotel is on skeleton staff although you …

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 …

This journey was only meant to be 5 hours but turned into 7 as we had a rubbish bus & had a few to many stops. One rest stop was interesting though, it had the usual toilet, lady selling drinks & crisps then a bit of a market stall selling weird food! Amongst the weird food there was a steel bowel on the floor with huge tarantulas in!! We' …

Luego de recibir nuestro timbre, pagar las visas de Cambodia y sacarnos fotos con los guardias de la frontera, retomamos nuestra travesía fluvial por el Mekong por alrededor de dos horas más, viendo búfalos, gente bañ****, etc y hasta que paramos, en medio de la nada, para cambiarnos a una preciosa van Mercedes Benz. El único problema fue que la …

Today I was debating between having a day at the pool or seeing the last tourist sights that I need to visit in the city......I decide to be good and do the sights!

I get a tuk tuk up to Wat Phnom which is a temple situated on a hill at the north of the city. It is the tallest temple in the city. I spend about half an hour walking round ( …

Today Gregg and I decide to check out what is happening at Wat Phnom for Khmer New Year. There are rumors of a water festival but not many people know what we are talking about!

On the walk to Wat Phnom we see the aftermath of a crash. A tuk tuk lying on its side with the bike buckled. There are bits of debris lying around but I cannot see …

We took the bus from Saigon to Phnom Penh during the day, avoiding the sleeper bus. We started at 9am and were set to arrive at 3pm (a mere 6 hours), it involved our first land border crossing also, which was to say fairly interesting and casual. The bus driver took all the passports of the bus in a pile and took them to the desk for the passport …

... at the hotel rooftop restaurant. Sun 29th June - Had breakfast in bed as a Sunday morning treat and book onto tomorrows bus to Phnom Penh. M trims L's hair to make up for the damage done (now have 1 inch fringe and elfin cut!). As you've probably ...

... nbsp; In the end we decided not and went back to bed for a while.  Feeling a lot better we decided to go to Wat Phnom, Phnom Penh's most important temple.  The temple itself is on the top of a small hill (on a roundabout), the highest point in ...

... 1975, the Khmer Rouge (run by Pol Pot and comprising mainly very young, poorly educated Cambodians drawn from the countryside) invaded Phnom Penh and all big cities, forcing everyone out into the countryside to work in the fields and to live as ...

... that's the way we like it. The next day we got up early for a look around the capital city of Cambodia, Phnom Pen. We checked out Wat Phnom and the Independence Monument. Jumping on a motorbike, both of us together (scary) we rode to have a look at ...

... mid 1980s, when the tragedy of the Khmer Rouge was fresh in the West's mind. So I wasn't expecting a great deal of Phnom Penh before reaching it - apart from the first impressions of the poster I'd had negative reports from other travellers and read ...

... and said a blessing, then smiled goodbye as we left the peaceful sanctuary to explore the ornately painted monastery. Wat Phnom, on Phnom Penh's only hill, was much less peaceful. It was a bustling and noisy little temple alive with worshippers. ...

... bad. It was a 5 hour journey, including two 15 minute stops on an air con bus. The journey was surprisingly smooth and we reached Phnom Penh at about 1pm. We had worked out that it was only a 5 minute walk to our guesthouse so we burst our way through ...

... commit myself to two terms so I can get some experience, which means I'll be living here until mid September. Oh my god! Phnom Penh! It's starting to sink in that this crazy busy bustling city is my new home, although I still find myself staring ...

... Vietnam war claimed it as another in a long list of casualties. Everyone was using eastern Cambodia as a battleground and refugees poured into Phnom Penh. When the Americans left Vietnam, they also stopped supporting the government of the day in ...

IMH: Phnom Penh, Cambodia's Capital, is situated at the confluence of three great rivers - known as 'Chaktamuk' or the 'Quatre Bras' (four faces or four arms) of Mekong, Tonle Sap and Bassac rivers. Phnom Penh is also the country's commercial, economic ...