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- Phnom Penh
- Capital
- Riel (KHR)
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- Population
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Bavet
Travel Blogs from Bavet, Cambodia
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Border Crossing into Cambodia to Phnom Penh
... 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 ...
Moc Bai -Bavet: Crossing the Border
... likely up to no good, long lines, and where allowed, casinos. Each of these are present at the Bavet – Moc Bai border crossing between Cambodia and Vietnam. There is something about these border towns that attract this type of ...
The Vietnam Border Crossing
... 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 ...
Oh No . . . . Im not ready to leave!
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 ...
Smiling happy people but a tragic history
... 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
... 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, ...
The Journey to the Vietnamese border and HCMC
... we eventually reached the Vietnamese border. The border crossing was far easier and took alot less time that the border between Thailand and Cambodia. No surprise really as there is a history of trouble between the two countries and we saw in the news the ...
Now this is a real homestay!!
... inside, a kitchen upstairs and a proper bathroom. They also had turkeys which we had been informed were the nly ones in Cambodia. Monoreth showed me the male turkeys fighting (all natural- no blades!). After this we walked back to his older sisters ...
Visiting the Reaksmy, Cambodia OLPC XO Project
... the children and their lessons. I did not know very much about this early OLPC XO project, or the non-profit CAMBODIA~p.r.i.d.e., (providing rural innovative digital education) which supports it. http://www.cambodiapride.org/ In 1998 or 1999. Nicholas ...
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