Kompong Thom, Cambodia Travel Blogs

More Tomb Raidering
Jul 31, 2005 (15 photos)

... I soon forgot about our destination. The month of July was certainly a wet one, and this showed in the countryside of Kompong Thom province. No longer was the countryside a dusty brown, but instead a vibrant green, promise of a massive harvest in the ...

Out of touristville
Jan 28, 2005 (4 photos)

... best use the "facilities", with one of them just barely making it onto the bus before it took off again. We arrived in Kompong Thom in about 2.5 hours. Not much there at all. However it is apparently one of the bigger cities in Cambodia and it was ...

Sjette dag i Cambodia
Jul 21, 2006 (5 photos)

Cyklede 150km

Celebrations in Kompong Thom
Jan 8, 2006 (7 photos)

Celebrations in Kompong Thom Christmas Christmas in Cambodia was pretty strange, in that is was as good as a non-event, particularly in Kompong Thom. A few Cambodians buy each other presents and you can buy nylon Father Christmas hats, but I'm not ...

Gardens and frogs
Mar 16, 2006 (8 photos)

Typical. Today is Women's Day in Cambodia. We all have a day off work, even the hard working NGOers who work through everything, not like us shoddy government workers. To celebrate it I am recovering from last nights little sojourn into the world of ...

First Visit to Kompong Thom - Our new Home
Nov 13, 2005 (7 photos)

Kompong Thom - Placement Visit We visited Kompong Thom, our home for the next 2 years, on the 8th and 9th November. It took about 3 hours from PP, with 7 of us crammed into a landrover. Very uncomfortable. We stayed in a nice hotel in the centre of ...

Heading SE to go N
Jan 10, 2007

On my way to some remote temples

Language Troubles
May 21, 2006

... on the subtleties of learning the Khmer language... Khm'anglais is now the language of choice for those who have been in Cambodia for a few months with VSO. It's a unique blend of heavily accented Khmer mixed with English words when you get stuck. ...

Phnom Penh and Kompong Thom
Oct 2, 2003 (1 photos)

... to look for someone who could help me in Phnom Penh. I was feeling down and frustrated so I decided to leave for Kompong Thom and hopefully find some work elsewhere. I stopped at this small town because there were some ruins from some pre-Angkorian ...

Decouverte du Cambodge rural
Aug 16, 2004

... accessibles par quelque route que ce soit. Ca se fait a pied, ou en elephant... Enfin, quittant Sen Monorom a destination de Kompong Cham, 3e ville du Cambodge, nous avons decide de vivre dangereusement, et de faire la ruote de 4h a l'exterieur du pick ...

Riding on the roof of cars
Oct 22, 2005

It is a small little village in the middle of Cambodia. It is about 4 hours from Siam Reap. There is not much to this village. It has one main road and a market place. It will always stand out to me for two reasons. The first happened within an hour ...

Through Khmer countryside
Aug 4, 2006 (5 photos)

Go to the Summary Page ___________________________ An early start to go to the Burmese ambassy and drop my passport there. I have made my mind and I will go to Myanmar after Laos. Only problem: I will have to fly from Bangkok to Rangoon, as there is ...

Kompong Thom
Mar 12, 2006 (23 photos)

Kompong Thom was not my choice of destination, my original plan was to go up north but what i planed was too expensive and this is simply a stop on the way back to Phnom Penh. It is a really small town and i was the only person to get off as no one ...

Sambor Prei Kuk temple pre-Angkorian.
Oct 17, 2006 (15 photos)

Tuesday 17th of October 2006. Kompong Thom and Sambor Prei Kuk temple. I was up to run at 06:00. It was a hot morning but I wasn't alone it seems that morning exercise is the same here as elsewhere in Asia. There were several groups doing aerobics along ...

Kompong Chhnang
Oct 16, 2008 (10 photos)

On my way up to the north I decided to make my first stop at a small town of Kompong Chhnang. There was not even a proper bus terminal, I was just quickly dropped off by the road. I did not have a map so did not really know where I was but ...

Pics and Videos
Feb 9, 2007 (5 photos)

... driving we ran over a dog...and I have a very funny follow up video!! First of all, let me just explain how rural Kompong Thom is, I have never been anywhere like this..not even parts of Peru. Like in PP there are motorbikes everywhere...there are very few ...

Festival pré-récolte
Feb 11, 2007 (12 photos)

Un ami de Zoey nous a invité dans le village de son grand-père pour le festival religieux visant à assurer de bonnes récoltes. Première visite au fin fond de la cambrousse. Les deux pieds dans la rizière! Tout un choc culturel. Pour plusieurs villageois c'était ...

Visiting the Families of Kids at NACA Orphanage
Mar 23, 2008

... lives on a beautiful island in the middle of Tonle Sap Lake. On the down side, a short lunch stop in Pursat Province has left Angel, Raquel, Magalie and I with stomach cramps and vomitting, most likely a result of food poisining. Gotta love Cambodia!

Pre Angkorian Complex
Oct 21, 2005 (3 photos)

These temples (wats) pre date those of Angkor by many years, the oldest built around 800AD. The highlight of the visit was the throng of children escorting us through their land.

Dusty market town
Feb 20, 2008

Kompong Thom is about halfway between PP and Siem Reap along a glorious new bitumen road - something very special here in Cambodia were the colour of 99% of the roads is dirt. To my delight, nobody else left the bus here. I quickly found the only ...

Farewell Lake and NACA Heartbreak
Jan 23, 2008

... is always the beginning of another, and with this we set off for the provinces. Our first stop was a lunch break in Kompong Thom, a small, quiet yet interesting provincial town a few hours north of Phnom Penh. With full bellies and renewed energy we set ...

Cambodia
Apr 4, 2007 (19 photos)

... Alisha about 7 years earlier probably! After 2 nights in Bangkok we departed early for a 12 hour overland journey to Siam Reap, Cambodia. It consisted of a taxi, 6 hour bus trip, tuk tuk ride to border, then a taxi from the border to Siam Reap. The ...

Off the beaten track
Jun 14, 2002

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Tonle Sap Boat Trip
Jun 15, 2002

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kompong cham
Jan 20, 2008

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petite halte a kompang chnang
Dec 28, 2009 (5 photos)

nous avons quittes la folie de la capitale et nous sommes arretes dans un village de pecheur ou la vie se passe sur pilotis et au rythme de l eau. nous avons fait une petite ballade en bateau autour du village dont voici quelques photos la bise a tous et ...