Country Info
- Phnom Penh
- Capital
- Riel (KHR)
- Currency
- 12,491,501
- Population
- KH
- Country Code
Cambodia Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Cambodia
Snooky Ville to Siem Reap - home of Angkor Wat
This is a top pick! 6:30 am start, tuc tuc to bus station, bus to Phnom Penh change to bus to Siem Reap. 11 hours in total and a bus driver with a death wish! All in all a good day really. It was during the last leg of the bus journey that we encountered some interesting ...
Tomb Raiding in Siem Reap
This is a top pick! Here are some photos from our time in Siem Reap and a few of the Angkorian complexes and temples - Angkor Thom and the Bayon, Preah Khan, Ta Prohm (the Tomb Raider temple) and of course the mother of all temples, Angkor Wat. ...
Easy Rider, Part II
This is a top pick! ... as negative suspension?) that we were in dire need of some wind in our face and some bugs in our teeth. Truly. Despite Cambodia's legendarily awful potholed dirt roads, this streth of highway was quite nicely paved all the way and took us through some ...
Border crossing Trat - Koh kong
This is a top pick! ... inflated ($15 for a 4 hour ride on a busboat not dissimilar to a garbage scow.) Some initial impressions of Cambodia-- 1. There does not seem to be any formal public transportation, only private motorcycles/boats/Toyota Camrys, all too willing to ...
Cambodia - Overview
This is a top pick! As with Vietnam, the current generation of Cambodia is haunted by the country's recent history. Our day in Phnom Penh, facing up to the horrors of the Pol Pot regime, was frighteningly difficult to comprehend. The nation has had to move forward and it had ...
Phluk and Temple
This is a top pick! ... in the first place they should never have served this. For a place of this stature and allure this was unacceptable, even in a country like Cambodia. We did not let it ruin our day and the second try of the Chef was better. But when we were almost done ...
Back to Hong Kong
This is a top pick! Today we have to leave this wonderful country as Chinese new year demands our presence back in Hong Kong, or actually in Taiwan, as the whole family will go there to celebrate the new lunar year. But not before we take a last spin around the town of Siem ...
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 ...
Angkor Wat
This is a top pick! ... it's all true. I suppose the Western world should shoulder some of the blame- given we did encourage a civil war in Cambodia a few decades ago - and I'm happy to report that we certainly did our part to contribute to the Cambodian economy to help rectify ...
Ankor wat wat wat?
This is a top pick! ... a cold drink! Amoung the hussel and bussle there are also musical bands by victims of land mines, a very stark reminder of Cambodia's history that still treatens today. In all the guide books and from other travellers you hear never walk off the main ...
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 ...
Beachin' it
This is a top pick! ... awhile. I popped a couple of anti-diarrhea tablets and we took off on the bus to Sihanoukville on the south coast of Cambodia. After all our purchases in Vietnam (clothes and souvenirs) we are loaded down with two extra bags and wouldn't mind staying ...
Battambang
This is a top pick! Arrived in Battambang with the view to get the pictureque boat to Siem Reap. On first sight of the river this seemed quite an unlikely option. There were people walking, ankle deep straight up the middle. Of course, it was still going ahead "yes, ...
That's Cambodia son.
This is a top pick! We entered Phnom Pehn with heavy hearts and not without a little trepidation after our good friends, Bob and Hazy, found the place to be so soul-sapping. We were still determined to see the city though and were more than willing to step into 'the heart ...
Siem Reap
This is a top pick! ... for execution. There is a building with over 8,000 skulls of the victims inside. There were other killing fields all over Cambodia, and almost 2 million people were killed during the 4 year terror of the Khmer Rouge. One in every 4 Cambodians died. The ...
Cities of temples
This is a top pick! ... a magnificent temple. Ornately carved, though not as delicately as Angkor, the carvings were lively scenes of everyday life in Cambodia 800 years ago- hunting, fishing, celebrating. A man bent on one knee, proposing to a woman, Chinese merchants carosing ...
Kampuchea Hosue
This is a top pick! Kampuchea House is an Orphanage founded by Australian Les Stott. This year my school Westbourne Grammar School has raised $50,000 for them to build a community center which will serve as a community kitchen, a school and a general area to play. The ...
Year Zero to 2005
This is a top pick! ... I wore a pained scowl for the better part of the afternoon. I stepped back less than three decades and saw the remnants of Cambodia's most devastating and darkest hours. I visited the S-21 Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum followed by a ride out to Choeung Ek, ...
Cambodia
This is a top pick! ... conversations of the whole island. I kid you not. After 5minutes we had to tell him to shut up. Laos spoiled us. Entering Cambodia we had none of the enthusiasm that normally accompanies arriving in a new country, we wanted to turn back. For 150km the ...
FaT dOg Cambodia
This is a top pick! ... of 'get wasted, the bar money goes to charity' took hold and 60 people danced to probably the first minimal ever heard in Cambodia. Before the party I had spent 3days trying to find stuff i could play that wasn't minimal. But after an hour of the night I ...
Living in Cambodia
This is a top pick! ... thing is that resorts in the developing world are run by greedy multinationals so none of their money stays in Cambodia. At the moment Sihanoukville is in transformation - it currently has 2 posh resorts but gradually the beachside bars are being ...
Next up.. Cambodia
This is a top pick! ... . Thank god everything went according to plan this morning and we arrived on time at the tiny airport of Luang Prabang, next stop Cambodia. A boring wait and a short flight later we landed at the airport of Siem Reap, in the middle of the country of ...
Bangkok to Battambang
This is a top pick! ... !! It was a dirty, dusty, crowded town full of begggars and con artists in every shape and form, and not a great introduction to Cambodia. We ended up catching a taxi to Battambang, it was either that or sit in the back of a pick-up truck on sacks of rice ...
Back to Phnom Penh
This is a top pick! ... such acts of depravity in the future. My two cents. After that uplifting afternoon, we decided it was high time to bid Cambodia farewell. I feel like I can cross that off my list of places to go within this lifetime. A beautiful country, but the ...
The extension to The Villa Siem Reap
This is a top pick! ... ... as well as a bar. This will most likely serve as the principal vantage point for my Uncle Gary, Pop and Dad to view Cambodia from when they come over with the rest of my mum's family for Christmas. The following are photos of the extension. Photos of ...
Kids, Caves and Palm Wine
This is a top pick! Hello All, How are you? How's life? How's everything? After Shihanoukville Danny and I headed East to the sleepy little town of Kampot. According to the ticket guy you can normally fit 8 people in a normal 5 seater car which we are still ...
Holiday in Cambodia
This is a top pick! ... is that the temples are slowly being cut off from the jungle and each one is now surrounded with a tarmac 'moat'. Since Cambodia opened their skies to international flights tour groups have been pouring into Siem Reap airport and being ferried from their ...
Angkor - not the ship kind. Temple Tour Day 3
This is a top pick! Temple Tour Day 3 We couldn't believe it! Our driver was there, ready and waiting! This is too good! We weren't seeing much today anyway which would leave him plenty of time to get more jobs in. It was too good to be true because on the drive out ...
Amazing Angkor
This is a top pick! ... , so the waiting times were atrocious. Once stamped out of Thailand, we had to walk across the neutral area then get stamped into Cambodia, and thankfully they sped that process up a little bit to about an hour. This of course is when we found out that ...
Angkor - not the ship kind. Temple Tour Day 2
This is a top pick! Temple Tour Day 2 Five minutes to 5am and we were down there waiting for Josh and waiting for the driver. Josh came sauntering down at 5 but no sign of the driver. We gave him 10 minutes but the dirty, lazy little bugger had opted for a sleep-in ...