Battambang, Cambodia Travel Blogs

Bangkok to Battambang
Aug 12, 2003

... , 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 many ...

Boat trip and the Sanyang 125
Aug 13, 2008 (22 photos)

... 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 that ...

Where you say? A firey furnace for one
Mar 10, 2005 (5 photos)

... 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 ...

The River People
Jun 29, 2005 (13 photos)

... 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 area ...

Battambang - Templed out
Oct 24, 2006 (13 photos)

... 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 ...

Free Ego Massages - Read on!
Aug 15, 2008 (11 photos)

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 readers ...

Battambang
Dec 4, 2005 (5 photos)

... . 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 ...

Cambodia's 2nd Largest City
Jan 21, 2008 (38 photos)

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 ...

I missed Angelina
Nov 15, 2005 (8 photos)

... 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 ...

Battambang
Dec 6, 2007

Entry in Siem Reap journal.

Master Chef Davey returns
Jun 24, 2007 (11 photos)

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 ...

Discovering the 'real' Cambodia
Feb 13, 2005 (3 photos)

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 still ...

Battambang
Aug 12, 2008 (11 photos)

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 ...

Battambang
Mar 10, 2008 (2 photos)

... 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.   We ...

the dancing road to battambang the road ...
Nov 11, 2001 (2 photos)

... 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 life ...

Battambang
Apr 9, 2009 (4 photos)

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
Feb 26, 2006 (23 photos)

... 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 the ...

Up the Tonle Sap in a long tail boat.
May 16, 2007 (5 photos)

... 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 ...

The Battanbam Countryside
May 18, 2007 (10 photos)

... were being washed  . . . naked it was. I commented that most rich kids don't seem as happy as the poor children of Cambodia. Bok explained that since 90% of Cambodia was Budist it was their way to be happy and be as good of people as they can be ...

Stranded?
Nov 16, 2006 (10 photos)

... the northwest, an old colonial riverside town and all in all a delightful stop in my tour of Cambodia. Lacking beaches or any major tourist attractions has kept Battambang of the tourist map and it's only in the last 4 or 5 years that Lonely Planet levied ...

A ride on the Bamboo Train
Mar 7, 2007 (12 photos)

Bit of an anticlimax arriving in Battambang, pronounced Battambong, as it is supposed to be the secong biggest city in Cambodia, after Phnom Penh. Devoid much in the way to offer the tourist we found ourselves a guest house before wandering around in the ...

Battambang
Oct 18, 2006

5 hour bus ride to Battambang

The Rice Bowl of Kampuchea
Jan 23, 2007 (3 photos)

... they were very happy for the donation.  It really is a hard life for them. We eventually arrived in Battambang, which is known as The Rice Bowl of Cambodia, with most of the rice being exported!  We only had a couple of hours of light left, ...

Economy airline would be heaven compared to this
Jul 13, 2005 (2 photos)

... one of those boxes. I can't describe the level of discomfort. It gave me second thoughts about travel in Cambodia. Finally I arrived in Battambang. Where you may be asking? It is a provincial capital and the second city of Cambodia. I was here because ...

Battambang
Jul 20, 2009 (59 photos)

The Bamboo train
May 15, 2006 (4 photos)

Battambang, May 15 Miles travelled: 72550 We're midway through the long bus journey back to Bangkok, over sometimes quite rough roads. A fun activity we tried is the "bamboo train". Basically, you take two axles from rail cars, place a bamboo "flat ...

What to do in Battambang
Mar 9, 2009 (10 photos)

... to speak very good english, which makes bus rides more interesting when I am sitting beside a local person. On the way to Battambang, some dude from Cambodia sits down next to me and puts on a hat and I thought "why is he putting on a hat?"...I hadn't ...

Battambang, Kingdom of Cambodia
Jul 4, 2008

I'm living the travelors dream.  I have met two very nice Cambodian Men.  One has invited me to his sisters house.  I have now been there for two days.  I've now extended my stay for 3 more days.  I cannot even start to explain ...

Battambang, Cambodia
Jul 8, 2007 (13 photos)

... place to stay by the Stung Sangker River. After a quick walk around, it was quite easy to notice that, although Cambodia's second largest city, Battambang is worlds away from Phnom Penh. No big city feel here.  Perhaps because it is not that big of a ...

It's raining man
Mar 20, 2007

... Wasser in der Mitte, aber ich hatte Glück, bei mir war das Dach dicht. Heute vormittag, als ich im Bus nach Battambang sass, hat es dann endlich mit regnen aufgehoert. Hoffentlich war das nicht der Anfang der Regenzeit, die eigentlich erst im Mai beginnt ...