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- Phnom Penh
- Capital
- Riel (KHR)
- Currency
- 12,491,501
- Population
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Phnom Penh Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Somber In The City
This is a top pick! ... experience. It seems like every single family in Cambodia lost at least one member to the genocide. Phnom Penh is the capital of Cambodia, situated where the Mekong and Tonle Sap Rivers merge. Since the city has no public transit system, we ...
Phnom Penh
This is a top pick! ... must of looked like she had eaten a cockroach as she nearly chokes causing quite a scene. Nutter. On arrival to Phnom Penh, the difference is huge. The capital city is very busy and the poverty even more palpable. After arriving at ...
On The Road Again
This is a top pick! ... visit distant relatives or go on vacation, Cambodians need papers signed by the government to avoid being jailed. Also, the Phnom Penh Post tells tales of 'development' wiping out homes and relocating families. One young HIV-positive girl was ...
Cambodia's Dark Past
This is a top pick! ... combined result of political executions, starvation, and forced labour. Yesterday we visited the Tuol Sleng prison. Originally a high school in Phnom Penh the Khmer Rouge turned it into a prison known as S-21. Between 1975 and 1978 almost 20,000 people ...
Phnom Penh - better than everyone says!
This is a top pick! ... have covered it in carpet (bit of a let down). The palace grounds twinkle in the sunlight, there's gold everywhere. Phnom Penh sometimes gets badmouthed by fellow travellers but I think it's a top class place mixing history with nightlife (especially ...
Exploring Phnom Penh
This is a top pick! Sua s'dai from Phnom Penh, Cambodia's vibrant capital. We hope to put some detail down to accompany the photos very soon. All the best ...
Deep fried spiders
This is a top pick! We had a full morning in Phnom Penh before we needed to catch our bus to Siem Reap. We wandered down to where the muddy brown waters of the Tonle Sap met the blue flow of the mighty Mekong. Boats journeyed up and down the rivers, and families ...
City Views
This is a top pick! We made it to our next country Cambodia! Grabbed a taxi from the airport, which charged based on how many stops they make (surprising pricing method). Found a hotel right on the river and checked in, then went and found some dinner. We found the city to ...
Holiday in Cambodia.
This is a top pick! Well, here we are in Cambodia. Phnom Penh. It's be a long, sobering day. To catch everyone up, after heading out from Bangkok to Siem Reap (translated: Siam destroyed) to see Angkor Wat, we found our way to Battambang to get our Vietnam Visas and ...
Fantastic Four hit the capital
This is a top pick! 6 hour $4 bus 2x 30min stops on the way walk to riverside waiting and hassled found GH indian ...
That's Cambodia son.
This is a top pick! ... the British (who trained and equipped the Khmer Rouge) and finally their own people. Yet, where is the hatred here? I didn't find Phnom Pehn to be the 'Heart of Darkness', that place must truly be found in the hearts of those who carry out atrocities and ...
Year Zero to 2005
This is a top pick! ... weeks prior to the fall of Saigon in 1975 a militant band of radical agrarian communists, the Khmer Rouge rolled into Phnom Penh emptying the city completely. The entire population was ripped from the capital -- hospital beds, schools, cafes, government ...
Cambodia
This is a top pick! ... unrelenting and eventually even his mother couldn't convince him to look our way. Harsh but in the circumstances I thought it was fair. Anyway Phnom Penh. We cruised around the city for a day in a tuctuc - much safer than walking - and got to know what ...
Back to Phnom Penh
This is a top pick! Returned once again to Phnom Penh after a pleasant 4 hour bus ride that miraculously only took 4 hours. The horror stories I had heard about the road between the two cities seemed to be completely untrue. Mellisa asked many times before we left Siem Reap ...
Cambodia or bust
This is a top pick! ... a country you have only been in for 4 days? We transferred from the boat to a minivan for the final haul to Phnom Penh. My first vivid memory of Cambodia is of a little girl, probably 5 years old or so, throwing a small rock at our car window. Things ...
Piss poor Phnom Penh
This is a top pick! ... to start attacking Vietnam and Vietnam retaliated around 1978. After Vietnam placed a new government in Phnom Penh, the U.S. placed a trade embargo on Cambodia having supported the Khmer Rouge as the official government. This made it even more ...
Phnom Penh
This is a top pick! Travelling to a country on Firday 13th were guns still get fired in the street didn't really strike me as a bright move on our part, you could say we were a little nervous. The fact that there was a sign outside a coffee shop asking that weapons be left ...
Our 1st Impressions of SE Asia and Cambodia
This is a top pick! ... at the hotel rooftop restaurant. Sun 29th June - Had breakfast in bed as a Sunday morning treat and book onto tomorrows bus to Phnom Penh. M trims L's hair to make up for the damage done (now have 1 inch fringe and elfin cut!). As you've probably ...
Day 73: The Land of Contrasts
This is a top pick! ... ambitious and started running cross-border raids into Vietnam, who thanks to the US were not in a good mood and promptly invaded Cambodia, booting the genocidal bastards out of power. They continued to be a problem for the next few decades, carrying ...
The Killing Fields
This is a top pick! ... how to play Shithead! Before long the sun was setting and a nice breeze was sweeping across the terrace and I thought how nice Phnom Penh really was. Wednesday 12th May Enough lazing about. We decided to go and see some of the darker sides of ...
A traumatic day
This is a top pick! ... at the same time unbeknown to each other and were killed there. Needless to say it was a very human way of illustrating Cambodia's recent history and was very upsetting. We then spent some time going around the museum which included hundreds of photos ...
The Beauty and the Beast
This is a top pick! ... lot more about the plight the Khmer people have faced over the last few decades. From SR we made our way to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. Like Siem Reap, it was very dirty and impoverished, yet much, much bigger. During our bus ride there ...
Back to the Capital
This is a top pick! ... and never know yet there are just a few playing such important roles in our lives. Compared to the rest of Cambodia, those huge, bright streets in Phnom Penh are beautiful. I can barely smell the bloody slougheer of 30 years ago, when the city was ...
Travel Daze
This is a top pick! What does traveling in Southeast Asia feel like? Triple check the guesthouse to make sure we haven't left anything behind, knowing we'll never see it again if we have. Check out and wait for the pre-arranged pick-up. A few anxious ...
Day 72: Night in the Heart of Darkness
This is a top pick! ... 'wanted to go to Battambang (Jeff didn't to begin with), we decided to forgo it all together and go straight to Phnom Penh, Cambodia's only real city. Thus, the day started out with a late-morning hop around the Siem Reap market area, popping our heads ...
Cambodia: the good, the bad, and the ugly
This is a top pick! ... put into jail to be interrogated and tortured and then eventually executed, with the bodies dumped into mass graves. In Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, we went to visit the largest prison during that time, called 'S21' or Security Office 21. It ...
Day 76
This is a top pick! ... paid David to drive me around all day though, so he took me to the North part of town to look at a temple on the only hill in Phnom Penh. Afterward I got him to take me to the Grand Palace where I let him go home since I was going to be a few hours in the ...
Pressing on to Phnom Penh
This is a top pick! (Dave here) Took a morning bus (9am) which went to the Bavet border (Cambodia) and carried on to Phnom Penh. We picked up visas at the border (30 days - $20) and arrived here around 5pm. We took a TukTuk straight to the lake area (Boeng Kak) and are ...
A Cambodian BBQ for two
This is a top pick! ... most important temple. The temple itself is on the top of a small hill (on a roundabout), the highest point in Phnom Penh, yet the whole area was teeming with both locals and tourists, some posing for photographs and others selling beautiful ...
Stroll around Phnom Penh
This is a top pick! ... dead" and exuberance "alive." It's strange because the issues of life and death are inescapable when exploring the city. Phnom Penh was emptied after the Khmer Rouge take over in 1975. The entire population of almost 1 1/2 million people ...