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Battambang Slideshow
Top Hotels in Battambang
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Stung Sangke Battambang
19 reviews -
Teo Hotel Battambang
22 reviews -
Hotel Rattanak Battambang
4 reviews
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Spring Park Hotel Battambang
8 reviews
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Star Hotel Battambang
21 reviews
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The Khemara Battambang I Hotel
40 reviews
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Seng Hout Hotel Battambang
77 reviews
Battambang
Travel Blogs from Battambang, Cambodia
Battambang
This is a top pick! ... no problem sir!" A little bit a gentle questioning and the truth was revield; that in fact you drive (truck!) for a few hours out of Battambang jump on the "wooden boat" and get dropped off "just outside" Siem Reap. All this for a mere $15 each. ...
Bangkok to Battambang
This is a top pick! ... a dirty, dusty, crowded town full of begggars and con artists in every shape and form, and not a great introduction to Cambodia. We ended up catching a taxi to Battambang, it was either that or sit in the back of a pick-up truck on sacks of rice with too ...
Where you say? A firey furnace for one
This is a top pick! ... opener I fear this one may go on a little. Well, from the title, you can see that I'm currently in the city of Battambang in Cambodia. How did I get here? Well, yesterday I booked a bus ticket for as far as the Cambodian border at Poipet. After that I ...
Boat trip and the Sanyang 125
This is a top pick! ... rooms for decent prices. Tuc tuc drivers out front are annoying but there is a back entrance that we started using to avoid them. Battambang at first seems a bit dingy and crap. There are many street kids that beg for food and money. We found out later ...
Bamboo Trains and Gecko Café Lounging
This is a top pick! ... which he threw at a cow for some reason. He then lost the stick, and hence the town is called 'Lost Stick Town' or 'Battambang' in Cambodian. I think some of the story may have got lost in translation! Back at the hotel we took their bikes out to Gecko ...
Tropical Downpours Begin
This is a top pick! ... on had turned into sinking mud. Our bike shoes and bikes got completely bogged, by the time we arrived at the hotel in Battambang, we were an absolute muddy state. The hotel was a gem. Showered and mud removed we hit the town and tracked down ...
Free Ego Massages - Read on!
This is a top pick! Hey everyone, it's December 15th, and I"m not in Cambodia, but Thailand where I am furiously typing and editing photos for your enjoyment. I just wanted to share something I received from a friend this past week. Some of the Nova Scotia ...
The River People
This is a top pick! ... the next day certainly made up for the disastrous journey to get there. When I first arrived in Cambodia, I was too blown away by the city of Battambang, and short of time, to check out the surrounding sites. That was the reason behind visiting the ...
Battambang - Templed out
This is a top pick! ... fan and cable TV, happy days, but it just goes to show how much you could save by travelling with someone else. Battambang is a very small city so I wandered aimlessly around the streets, around the market, passing monks and streams of children pouring ...
Cambodia's 2nd Largest City
This is a top pick! Battambang...Cambodia's second largest city. But you'd never know it when you get here. It's quiet, slow, and peaceful without much tourism going on. To get here, however, was an adventure in itself. I took the express boat ...
Unbelievable
This is a top pick! ... will have to do it justice. Tomorrow we're off to see Angkor Wat at sunrise, and then we head to some floating village. Apparently there are about 20,000 people living on it. Bottom line is that I'm having a great time. I'm a big fan of ...
Crazy Bamboo Train
This is a top pick! Battambang, Cambodia - We arrived in Battambang late morning and were greeted by a tuk tuk driver with a guesthouse brochure. Seeing as we had no where booked, we opted for the free ride to take a look. The guesthouse was perfect, we chose a cheaper room ...
Girls take a boat ride and eat mouse+crunchy frog
This is a top pick! ... canals to see the floating village, whose inhabitants are all/mostly Vietnamese who came in after '79 when the Vietnamese army invaded Cambodia and drove the Khmer Rouge from power. There's even a floating Christian church. Grandma, how'd you like to make ...
Battambang - Waterways Trip.
This is a top pick! ... . It was a real highlight and left us saying we LOVE Cambodia. On arrival we found our way to a guesthouse and noted that Battambang is reasonably small and easy to walk around. A good thing too as the only mode of transport seemingly evident is to get on ...
Battambang
This is a top pick! Battambang is a sleepy little town, but a lovely one to spend a few days cruising around on motorbikes and wandering through the streets. The country side is beautiful and the locals friendly. Danayi has reduced the celebrity of being a white ...
Discovering the 'real' Cambodia
This is a top pick! Battambang We travelled onto Cambodia's second biggest city, - a town really, for a couple more days of Cambodian culture. The town is peaceful, cheap and relaxed but still displays many of Cambodia's problems - innumerable limbless people from the ...
Master Chef Davey returns
This is a top pick! Arriving in Battambang, most of the day was gone, so we booked onto a cooking course for the next day, had some lunch and possibly the best fruit shake I've ever had, then chilled out for the rest of the day. Cooking ...
Khmer Rouge country
This is a top pick! ... an hour or so I was lost in my thoughts, looking at the stunning mountain range as we retraced our tracks back to Battambang. Everything I'd read seemed a little clearer now. Sure, the Khmer Rouge were the same race, but they were different in some ...
Bamboo Train and Bats
This is a top pick! ... and has seesawed between Cambodian and Thai rule since time immemorial. Thanks to the support of the Thai Government, the area around Battambang was the last stronghold of the Khmer Rouge who were finally rooted out as late as 1998. The farmland around ...
I missed Angelina
This is a top pick! ... me down a notch was Onion recounting the time he met Angelina Jolie in July. Yes! She'd come back to Cambodia to film a documentary in Battambang, and I missed it! They kept that one quiet didn't they. Onion was obviously smitten, althought he seemed ...
All aboard!!
... of the skulls and bones give you any indication that something horrific happened there. One of our main reasons for visiting Battambang was the Bamboo train, which is a form of transport that a few Cambodians still use, although will soon be ...
the dancing road to battambang the road ...
This is a top pick! ... I can see why. I've been body popping for the last 9 hours! I think this town should be called "Battered bum" instead of "Battambang," because when we finally arrived, my ass was well and truly battered!!! As for Gary he did survive hanging on for his ...
Busy day in the rice bowl!
... our remaining journey was provided by Khmer music videos being played at an earsplitting volume. 5 and half hours later we arrived in Battambang tired, hungry and a little cranky to say the least! Luckily our hotel was a stone’s throw from the bus ...
Battenberg
This is a top pick! From Siem Reap we headed to Battambang on a specific mission to read a message that Gareth and Reshie left for us on the wall of a cafe when they were there a few months ago!! This took us on the worst road in South East Asia...and that's a fact! It was ...
Slow boats and bamboo trains
Instead of heading straight to Siem Reap and the wonders of Angkor Wat, we decided to take a few days detour to riverside Battambang, Cambodia's second largest city. We arrived to the now expected flurry of tuk-tuk drivers surrounding our bus (on which we ...
L'impatto con un altro mondo
... ' di parlare inglese o di un abbraccio o di due soldi li porta tanto vicino a te da sentirti un po' in imbarazzo. Battambang ci è sembrata la vera Cambogia quasi da subito anche perchè il turismo come noi lo intendiamo qui non si vede. Una gentilezza e ...
Battambang
We stopped at another small town by lake Tonle Sap. Battambang was lovely, with some hotels and just a few delicious little restaurants. We met two other couples, one Swedish and one Dutch/Korean, who we got on well with and spent two days here ...
Battambang
... the Tonle Sap lake, a huge lake which we had to cross to get to Siem Reap. Finally, some 10 1/2 hours since leaving Battambang we arrived at the floating village of Chong Kneas near Siem Reap where our bum-numbing experience ended. Rather than arriving in ...
Up the Tonle Sap in a long tail boat.
... 9 1/2 hours on the bow of a long tail boat as we cruised up the Tonle Sap River from Siem Reap's Lake Tonle Sap up to Battambang. I took 10 GIG of photos, but the connection is to slow to put many up. I am turning a toasty gold color, even with the ...