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Kompong Thom Slideshow
Kompong Thom
Travel Blogs from Kompong Thom, Cambodia
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More Tomb Raidering
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Next boat...July!
This is a top pick! ... ferried around on mopeds at the moment. In both Vietnam and China, religion seemed to be something the minority took part in, in Cambodia, it is immediately clear that it is a very important part of daily life. The absolute best thing so far however, has ...
Off the beaten track!
... restaurant in town, we decided to head to the local market and look for some food. I t was already dark and as everywhere in Cambodia, streets have no light at all. A street child smelling some glue in a small plastic bag (I assume he was a junkie), came ...
Parfume...
There seemed to be only four main guesthouses/hotels in Kompong Chhnang. At least within the town centre. This town was rather quiet although apparently popular with the NGO people working with the communities. The main attraction however was the fishing ...
Celebrations in Kompong Thom
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
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 ...
Dusty market town
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 ...
First Visit to Kompong Thom - Our new Home
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 ...
Tomb Raidering, Take 1
... , not amazingly framed, but she's probably never used a camera before! After a couple of hours wandering round we returned to kampong Thom for about 2pm. I was covered in orange dust, I even had a sort of fake tan on my arms from it, and my shirt ...
Language Troubles
... 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. ...
Snake Rat...Tarantula Oh My!
... ha. The next day was spent travelling to Kompong Cham a city located on the Mekong River. After the six hour bus ride we had the option to take a bike tour down ...
Nouvel an Khmer: les traditions
... nbsp; les 'oeuvres’ est écrit sous chaque peinture…en fait de restauration, nous avons rarement vu pire. Dans la forest de Kompong Thom, c’est une autre histoire. Il se cache là un véritable petit bijoux. Un groupe de trois sites ...
Phnom Penh and Kompong Thom
... 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 ...
day Tripping
... a new approach they can't reason against. I returned to my seat and resumed mild melting. 22:00 The bus arrived at kompong Thom around 3 and I got off the bus with the usual buzz of helpful taxi drivers wanting to take me on a tour immediately. I ...
Decouverte du Cambodge rural
... pas 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 ...
Riding on the roof of cars
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 ...
Once more for old times sake!
... and they told me they were going to Phnom Penh on the 22nd, so that gave me a chance to squeeze one more place in Cambodia. I arrived in Phnom Penh at midnight then had to change to another bus which took two hours to finally get there. I couldn't get ...
Through Khmer countryside
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 ...
Floating Village
... important. It has also been through horrific recent wars, and endured the brutal regime of Pol Pot. And yet through it all, the Khmer people were the big WOW of our stay in Cambodia. Kind, gentle, and hospitable- I suspect we'll be back very ...
Kompong Thom
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 ...
Kompong Chhnang
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 ...
Sambor Prei Kuk temple pre-Angkorian.
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 ...
Pics and Videos
... 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 ...
Festival pré-récolte
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 ...
Waiter, there is a cockroach on my plate.
... that in Thailand they eat locusts and actually I am a bit of a fan of them with some beer late at night. But here in Cambodia they also eat cockroaches as a snack; maybe they do that in Thailand too but we have not seen them there. In the hotel ...
petite halte a kompang chnang
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 ...
Visiting the Families of Kids at NACA Orphanage
... 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 ...
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