Country Info
- Phnom Penh
- Capital
- Riel (KHR)
- Currency
- 12,491,501
- Population
- KH
- Country Code
Cambodia Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Cambodia, Cambodia
Not Impressed, but excited!
This is a top pick! ... the journey, but he did put the remainder of Team America on to keep us entertained and, perhaps, subdued. I wasn't impressed with Cambodia so far and the guesthouse employees did little to raise my hopes. They were quite surly and indifferent on our ...
Beautiful Mekong Sunsets and Irrawaddy Dolphins
This is a top pick! ... but this was one expensive, uncomfortable minibus ride. Kratie is a small provincial town on the banks of the Mekong River in north eastern Cambodia. It is an ideal place to stop for a day or two on our journey to Laos. We are staying in the Oudom ...
Cambodia or bust
This is a top pick! ... cramped, and the scenery along the river changed as well to thatched roof huts and acres of uncultivated riverfront property. Cambodia made Vietnam look like an advanced, sophisticated, wealthy country. Is it possible to intensely miss a country you have ...
Piss poor Phnom Penh
This is a top pick! ... 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 difficult for the economy ...
Wat!?
This is a top pick! ... expect from us at this stage? Today we leave Bangkok for our 4 hour private bus journey to Poipet where we cross into Cambodia, passing nothing but rice paddies along the way. The border itself is massive and the 'no man's land' between the two ...
People and their Places
This is a top pick! This is an ongoing blog of different people around town and what they do. The first of these photos comes from the day in the life of a cambodian tour that i did and has its own blog above. However i had to put her into because she is beautiful in ...
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 ...
Angkor Archaeological Park.
This is a top pick! A six hour bus trip from Phnom Penh north we arrived at Siem Reap, the gateway to the millennium-old temple ruins of the "Angkor Archaeological Park." Home of the legendary (UNESCO-World Heritage Site) Angkor Wat whose significance and visual impact put ...
A day on the Kulen hill
This is a top pick! ... . You can even buy a stack of small change to give out to the many people. It is a sad sight but unfortunately part of what is Cambodia. We pay a brief visit to the temple and walk around the premises for a bit. But the heat took the fun out of it and we ...
Our 1st Impressions of SE Asia and Cambodia
This is a top pick! ... of wine, the sponge cake and Jaffna mangoes we bought for him??). Sun 22nd June - At 10am we arrive at Siem Reap Airport, Cambodia. Spend ages bartering with the taxi driver to take us into the town. End up in a guesthouse of our choice (instead of ...
The Costa Del Cambodia
This is a top pick! And now, Cambodia from Eva's perspective: Part I, Sihanoukville. "$1 for moto ride, $2 for two" "$1 !!!!! for going 2 km.......... How much we paid for water? " "Gasoline is very ebansiv!" "Too Fa to wak!" There are too many reasons that they ...
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 ...
Week Twenty One - Phnom Penh to Siem Reap
This is a top pick! ... mostly upbeat. We questioned the fact that Pol Pot himself was allowed to die of natural causes under house arrest in Cambodia aged 76 without any charges being brought against him. The guide explained that the Cambodian people preferred to draw a line ...
The Killing Fields
This is a top pick! ... loving people they are. There are only some signs today that are reminders. The fact that doctors were killed and today Cambodia still has a very poor healthcare system (put it this way our insurance states evacuation to Bangkok is covered should we fall ...
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 ...
Angkor What?
This is a top pick! Got picked up at 06.45 to be taken to the bus station for our bus to Siem Reap. When we got to the bus station (about 10 minutes later) and onto the big bus we discovered that it wasn't actually leaving until 08.30 - could have had a lot longer in ...
The Beauty and the Beast
This is a top pick! ... each other by our Lululemon and Roots clothes and MEC paraphernalia. Becci and Chad soon became our travel companions throughout much of Cambodia, and with the addition of one more person we started our Cambodian Supper Club. In the realm of 'hard to ...
Where's the Water when you want it?
This is a top pick! At about 03.30 get woken up by deafening rain and thunder - thought it was sposed to be the dry season!! Alarm goes off at 05.00 and it is still pounding down with rain. We were sposed to be doing sunrise this morning on the Angkor Balloon (a tethered ...
Carvings of the past, catastrophes of the present
This is a top pick! ... many thousands. Eventually his efforts gained international support, and he continues to work with teams to clear as much of Cambodia as possible. The landmine museum was an intensely moving experience; the figures of the amount of land still uncleared, ...
Back to the Capital
This is a top pick! ... never meet 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 ...
Angkor WHAT???
This is a top pick! ... at sunrise. Sunset at Angkor was beautiful, but naturally the place was crawling with other tourists, it's the main reason people visit Cambodia. We walked up a steep hill with high steps and then some more steep steps up to the top of the temple and ...
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 ...
What Wat?
This is a top pick! Hellooo, So we arrive in the Reception of the Siem Reap Hostel, Emma W can't see as the grit has blinded her in our tuk tuk ride from the non-aircon bus to our hostel. (We dissapointed the tuktuk man by telling him we really dont know if we want to ...
Crossing another border
This is a top pick! Angkor is incredible. The size of the site, the temples themselves, and of course the history absolutly blows the mind. We'll write soon for sure, and we'll post a million photos to really describe the place. Merry Christmas ...
Unexpected Culture Shock in Southeast Asia
This is a top pick! ... , older women offering manicures and massages, a fair number of beggars (lots of land mine victims, a huge problem in rural Cambodia), people selling books, women selling spring rolls in baskets or huge shrimp on platters... In general, though, we found ...
Kampot
This is a top pick! Kampot is a small town known for it's high quality pepper cultivation. We used Kampot as a quiet stepping stone to the small beachside town of Kep before heading to the big city, Phnom Penh-- Cambodia's ...
An alternative method of Transport
This is a top pick! ... live and their culture whilst gunning down a bumpy road in a huge monster of a machine. The company i used was Quad Adventure Cambodia, run by a French Ex-Pat. From what i had heard he gets very grumpy when people don't listen to instructions (sounds ...
All aboard!!
This is a top pick! Our trip to Battambang wasn't as smooth as we would have hoped! First, Kevin forgot to set the alarm and instead of waking up a relaxed hour before our pick up time of 6am we were woken up 10 minutes after 6 by a knock on the door. This luckily ...
Ghost stories: the living and the dead
This is a top pick! ... sure I don't give the watching moto drivers something to really look at. As I approach my guesthouse, I think, that this is a perfect way to end my stay in Cambodia, enjoying the life of the country, the love that has managed to survive so much ...
Riding The Rails
This is a top pick! ... Each 'bamboo train', known in Khmer as a norry (nori), is rumoured to have the capacity for up to 15 people (I'm assuming they mean Cambodia sized people as the four of us were cozy on ours) or up to three tonnes of rice- crank it up and ...