Ta Khmau, Cambodia Travel Blogs

Fantastic Four hit the capital
May 15, 2006

6 hour $4 bus 2x 30min stops on the way walk to riverside waiting and hassled found GH indian meal

Heart Of Darkness
Aug 10, 2004 (2 photos)

... it) and now have my orientation (which usually means time to go!) Wednesday 12th August 2004 Totally inappropriate considering I'm in Cambodia, but decided to go shooting today. Hired same motobike taxi guy to take me to the range, a fare distant ...

Tour of duty
May 23, 2006

From our monsoon experience on Costa del Cambodia the weather has already drastically improved for us back in the capital. I think we all would have enjoyed Sihanoukville a whole lot more if it had not rained so heavily the entire time we were there. In ...

And now the darker side of town
Nov 24, 2005 (18 photos)

... . A visit here is a profoundly depressing experience, certainly not for children or the faint-hearted. However visitors to Cambodia and Phnom Phen should visit both the Killing Fields and the S-21 Museum as it shows the depths human nature can ...

Phnom Phen
May 13, 2007

Stopped in capitol city for a night before heading down south to Kampot

Going to Phuket
Dec 21, 2006

Hello again, after spending 3 days in Sinouk ville I,m off to Phuket tomorrow, but its going to be a bit of a track. Catch the bus at 7.00am then fly to Bangkok and then to Phuket, but its got to be done I suppose. Shane was supposed to meet me at Phuket ...

Beach-Thank God
Dec 18, 2006

We arrived at Phenon Penn the other day and we have done so much, visited the Genocide camp S21 which was horrifying, what the Khmer Rouge had done to the people, took them off the streets and there families and tortured them, then took them to the ...

Killing Fields,S-21 Pnohm Pen With Goncalo!
Jun 29, 2006 (12 photos)

Arrived off the 5hour bus ride back to Pnohm Pen again surrounded by moto drivers fighting and grabbing you for a ride.These guys are really pushy its hard to describe what their like,but as you pull into the bus station youve got about 30 blokes running ...

Walking around amazing Pnom Penh
Jul 30, 2007 (34 photos)

9:00am I slept really well and had my usual bread with scrambled eggs and pineapple shake for breakfast.  I should be heading out pretty soon to walk around some of the sights around town with Franck and Elena, my new French friends. 11:45am We ...

Back to PP
Nov 12, 2005 (4 photos)

Came back to do a little shopping, hang with friends, see the royal palace, see the beginning of water festival, and let jonathan practice using his chopsticks!

Some Cambodian History and another good walk
Jul 31, 2007 (14 photos)

... some Shaun of the Dead, which is a kickass movie.  Before that, I went to have a massage.  I had a Thai massage (in Cambodia, yeah, I know), and it was great, albeit a bit painful at times.  I'll go online for a bit now and then try ...

Pnom Penh! ^_^
Jul 29, 2007

5:00pm So I've arrived with a French couple that I shared the bus with, to the "Okay Hotel". 4 bucks a night, and it's close to the river and a few of the sights like the museum, royal palace and what not. 6:20pm We (the French couple and I) went ...

Nasty Stuff
Jan 21, 2007 (7 photos)

We should have known on arrival at Pnomh Pehn that we were in for a frustrating couple of days.   We got of the river boat which we had taken from Siem Reap and were immediately pressed by a seemingly endless stream of tuk tuk and moto drivers. ...

Phnom Phen and the Killing Fields
Sep 21, 2006 (12 photos)

... interesting experience from the amazing temples of Angkor Wat to the atrocities that occurred in the mid to late 70's all over Cambodia. The cities are quite clean and the people have been very pleasant and friendly. Walking around town you do have people ...

Choeung Ek
Apr 9, 2008 (5 photos)

 

August 25-31
Sep 1, 2003

... . And of course he wouldn't, so Ciaran did instead! The two of us arm in arm giving it socks on a deserted dance floor in Cambodia with all the locals looking at us with strange looks on their faces. Deadly! Next day was a day of rest. Pottered about a ...

Kandal Province and the Zoo
Jul 17, 2007

... , Jess, Aislinn and I managed to drag ourselves out of bed at 6:15 and brave the 2 hour bus trip to the Animal Sanctuary at Ta Khmau in Kandal Province with 30 kids from NACA Orphanage in tow. It turned out to be a great day all round although we didnt ...

Phnom Phen
Jul 20, 2004

Phnom Phen

Phnom Penn
Jul 19, 2006 (5 photos)

Next stop the capital. Phom Penn is alot larger that Siem Reap, is a cool place but with a dark history due to the Khmer Rouge era. As much as we enjoyed our time we thought that we must see some of ther museums around here. We saw the Tol Sleung genocide ...

The Killing Fields
Feb 18, 2009

We went to the Killing Fields and it was really strange. There was just a gate with the title Choeung Ek Genocide Centre. The fields were in fact the overflow from the mass graves at Toul Sleng and most of them were pits dug in the ground about 12" by ...

Phnom Phen
Dec 27, 2004

 

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Pnomh Penh Cambodia
Jun 24, 2006 (3 photos)

... days but really it is the only way to come anywhere near understanding the country and its people. Outside of its history Cambodia seems to be on the up. Although there are obvoius signs of poverty, including land mine victims begging, there are more ...