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- Phnom Penh
- Capital
- Riel (KHR)
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- Population
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Udong
Travel Blogs from Udong, Cambodia
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Phnom Penh revisited
In rder to get to the coast we had to pop back to Phnom Penh so we headed straight back to the lake and stayed inb a place with a WARM shower, which seems like a luxury these days, along with toilet roll!! not much news i just had to write the blog to ...
Day 4 - Toul Sleng Museum and Birthday Dinner
... bars, green lawns and lawn-bowling pitches Tuol Svay Pray High School sits on a dusty road on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In 1976, the Khmer Rouge renamed the high school S-21 and turned it into a torture, interrogation and execution centre. Of ...
Udong and street children
... she now works extremely hard to save victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation. It's a gut-wrenching read – but worthwhile, Cambodia has the highest rate of AIDS in Southeast Asia and mostly due to prostitution and the sale of young girls ...
Phnom Penh
... perspective of time, while the U.S. celebrated its' bicentennial, and disco was becoming popular, millions were being slaughtered in Cambodia. In Phnom Penh, a school was converted by the Pol Pot regime into a prison ("S-21") for the ...
Cambodia Wrap Up
... , so in general things are very clean. When you live off of $40 a month, there aren't many oreos wrappers around... Cost - Cambodia, like Laos was amazing cheap. Probably the most expensive part of your trip will be the $25 one-day pass to ...
Cambodia
Well we finally arrived to Phnom Pehn after a 1 day delay not on our part & as we had such a small amount of time in Cambodia we were obviously not happy campers. We bought a complete boat/bus ticket which would take us from our Island Don Khon in Laos ...
Cambodia
... almost a third of their population (2 million) was executed by the Kmer Rouge in order to make a fresh start for Cambodia, killing all highly educated people, military, monks and anyone without hard labour skills. We have learnt about the history during ...
Phnom Penh Pretty
... 19th century, avoided the devastation of Japanese occupation during WWII, and enriched the kingdom during the Vietnam conflict. While Cambodia's leaders fed their country to the lions for petty self interests. The country has had to start from scratch; ...
viens chez moi, je squatte a Meanok
3 jours a Meanok et mes premiers entretiens avec les producteurs de charbon dans un village bien ...
pp
... mine museum...whats a site that was. Young kids that had had a leg blown of by all the land mines laying around in cambodia...they reckon there are about 4 million still buried all over the country. This place is one of many going round diposing of them ...
Building with the Locals
Today we travelled 1 hr north of PP to a small community in Udong - our plan was to build a home for a family here - we were all geared up for a hard and hot day! First some history on this community. They originally came from PP but about 2 yrs ago ...
The capital!
vaknade kl 10. hookade upp med en australienska och hyrde en tuk tuk en dag. Det forsta vi akte till var shooting range. vissa tankar har man aldrig tankt. som denna att jag skulle sta med flip flop tofflor och skjuta en ak 47. Som att jag ...
Angkor Wat and temples
Got up early - 8am!!!! Heh thats early for us at the moment, got a taxi moto man (moped which pulls a carriage that can seat up to 4 people) to take us around the Angkor Wat and surrounding temples for the day. Not being big into culture and temples ...
Udong with a lot of steps
Udong (the Victorious) served as the capital of Cambodia under several sovereigns between 1618 and 1866, suggesting ‘victorious’ was an optimistic epithet, as Cambodia was in terminal decline at this time. A number of kings, including King ...
Cambodia Day 2 and 3
... real conditions of lower income life of a Cambodian. We met with 2 local NGO's in the last 2 days. One was Tabitha Cambodia; founded by Canadians and Americans that work very similar to Habitat for Humanity. We helped build two houses for them. The ...
Phnom Udong
... we found so stunning that we didn't accept, which we immediately regretted. The hill provided our first great view of the Cambodia country. Upon our return to the capital, we had a drink at the Foreign Correspondence Club, a restaurant (...and club...) ...
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