Bavet, Cambodia Travel Blogs

Border Crossing into Cambodia to Phnom Penh
Apr 1, 2007 (3 photos)

... history, frantic mopeds and business savvy minds, Cambodia was a small shock in the difference of the people. Cambodia, unlike Vietnam is a democratic nation which seems to shun the past, behave less frantically and still have business savvy yet ...

The Vietnam Border Crossing
May 13, 2009 (3 photos)

... three ridiculous hours. Though the border was free of touts, extortion, and hassles, we much prefer the faster crossing from Thailand to Cambodia-or any other border we've crossed to date, so far.   A few more hot miserable hours saw us dropped off ...

Oh No . . . . Im not ready to leave!
Jul 19, 2007

Argh, so goddam hot!!!! Had a great morning when the kids from the orphanage knocked on my door at 6:15am to see me off and help me carry my bags to the bus. I have such wonderful brothers and sisters . . . . and yet I'm leaving them all behind!

Smiling happy people but a tragic history
Aug 12, 2004

... like forever - I've had too many overnight bus trips and big nights out in Vietnam. The smiling happy people of today's Cambodia are such a huge contrast to what I was to experience in Phnom Penh, visiting the sombre Khmer Rouge killing fields and S21 ...

Day Six: It's business time
Dec 15, 2009 (11 photos)

... whether we were better to cross over or stay the night in Vietnam. We decided to cross over and so now we are in Cambodia. In the Casino town of Bavet. Lee and Amy did a recon to find a hotel, after looking at a few they found the one. It’s clean, ...