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Battambang Slideshow
Battambang
Travel Blogs from Battambang, Cambodia
killing cave and bamboo train
hello everyone i am now in a place called battambang it took 11 houres to get here so i was nackard when i arived pritty much had some food and then went straight to bed the next day i went out with some guy on a moto and went to viset some ...
randombodia...
... airport, followed by a six hour bus ride acoss the Cambodian countryside to finally reach our destination of Battambang, the second largest city in Cambodia. During our time in Battambang, we stayed with a pastor's family who lived and worked ...
Badoing it's Battambang
... the same time. So up early today 5.10am to be precise to get a bus to take me to the river to catch the boat to Battambang. The bus, obviously, was later than I was told but it finally arrived thirty minutes late. We went through the town and saw quite a ...
Batta B, Battambang!!
... to seeing them digitally and were very e pretty chuffed with how some of them had turned out. All up, Battambang was an unexpected jewel in our travels in Cambodia. It felt like we had managed to get away from the usual tourist haunts even though we know ...
A 6 hour ride. (I wish!!!)
... times to pick up locals along with their luggage and market goods. 9-1/2 hours later, YES, 9-1/2 HOURS LATER, we arrive in Battambang. Storm clouds building, lightning and thunder, and a mad dash with our new Tuk Tuk friend and we settle into ...
Smokin', Cookin', and a Story of Rain
... despite the social stigma and instrumental difficulties they constantly face. On this visit he was conducting a workshop at the Battambang hospital. He talked about the difficulty of working across language and culture and gave an anecdote to illustrate: ...
May 30, 2011
Ankommet til Cambodia
... . Dagen efter blev brugt paa at gaa rundt i byen og se de faa ting der er vaerd at se. Cambodia er jo en gammel fransk koloni saa Battambang har en del gamle fransk-inspireret huse. Godt nok traenger de til en ordenlig gang renovering men de er stadig ...
Busy Tourist Day
... to be a busy day. We had a short rest a little food and prepared to head out again… This time to a circus, seriously! Battambang has its own circus, a goup of kids train and create a show. These kids have also toured a lot, most recently in France. ...
Traffic jam water fight
... so we were not really expecting any for a couple of weeks. Fortunately this did not stop anything that we wanted to do in Battambang. There is not really a whole lot to do here - kind of a lazy riverside town which made a nice change from crazy Bangkok. ...
So Long, and Thanks for All the Dried Fish
... meal. Yasmin being Muslim, for most meals on the orphanage we had to eat the second cheapest kind of meat available in Cambodia after pork: dried salted fish. Subsisting on that for both lunch and dinner our last 5 consecutive days straight without ...
Adventures in Battambang
... to learn. That night we all went to a circus together that was in town from France featuring some local Battambang performers. Suddenly the rubbish lined streets, run-down houses and potholed roads disappeared as everyone crowded into the circus tent and ...
Battambang, The Killing Caves & Floating Villages
... investments, letting more tourists to visit the country and charging tourists triple or even more than the locals. Battambang is the second biggest town of Cambodia. Small by Western standard. Not much to do in the town, just to sit and observe ...
Off to Battambang
Got the 8.30 bus to Battambang and checked in to the excellent Hotel Royal. Negotiated $6 a night for three nights. ...
Battambang is What You Make of It
For our first and only full day in Battambang, Cara and I returned to the Smokin' Pot restaurant that we visited the day before. Besides an amusing name and good food, the restaurant also offered a midday cooking class. The class began with a trip to the ...
A train made from bamboo and a boat full of fruit!
... the top of a boat shaped mountain called Phnom Sampeau where we had amazing views over the province. This part of Cambodia is so flat! Battambang is famous for growing the best rice in the country and the surrounding province is a never ending patchwork ...
The Lonely Planet Recommended Boat Trip
Basically there are two ways to get to Battambang from Siem Reap, 1. get a $5 bus in 4 hours or 2. get a scenic $20 6-9 hour boat ride there. According to the Lonely Planet the boat trip is not to be missed and after doing the amazing two day boat trip ...
Oct 04, 2011
Battambang - Battamboring
... me, Amanda and two Cambodian woman with their infant daughter were crammed into a taxi for the two and a half hour journey to Battambang. This is our first full day here and we have already decided to leave. Their is absolutely nothing to do here ...
These Circus stunts are amazing!
... camps on the Thai border with simple drawing workshops. The experiment continued after the refugees returned to their homelands in Battambang and Phare Ponleu Selpak now has a worldwide reputation. We went to see the Caberet show which is mainly ...
Woo Hoo Kampuchea!
... off. We got to Pailin and there were no tourists about (how wonderful!) so I decided it would be better to head straight to Battambang with the Italians otherwise I'd end up paying $50 to get out of Pailin. Shame, as its a beautiful part of the ...
Riverboat excess
... the low tide and any move could have grounded us. As it was we spent much of the time fighting the current, eventually arriving in Battambang just after the sun had gone. Not only did we see nothing of the town but we'd all gotten very bored and hungry ...
Battambong
Von Siem Reap gings dann per Boot nach Battambong. Auf der achtstuendigen Bootsfahrt bekam ich einige eindrueckliche Lebensverhaeltnisse zu sehen. Unglaublich wieviele Menschen da ein Leben in aller Abgeschiedenheit fuehren. Entweder in Hausbooten, ...
A pants town in Cambodia (but nice river)
Day 50 We took the boat over to Battambang early in the am. It was a good journey but I managed to get very subburnt legs from sleeping on the roof - muppet! The town was pretty rubbish and in the evening it pissed down relentlessly. I commissioned ...
Provinzhauptstaedtchen
... . Also feierte ich ins neue Jahr mit Jelmer, seiner Familie, ein paar anderen Auswanderern und Miles. Jetzt bin ich in Battambang, der 3. groessten Stadt in Kambodscha, die mit 300.000 Einwohnern ueber mehr Kleinstadtflair verfuegt als Bruchsal. Winziges ...
Päivä 112.
Aamu alkoi aivan liian aikaisin. Ei ole normaalia herätä klo 6:20, varsinkaan kun ollaan tällaisia laiskureita. No, pakko mikä pakko koska muuten bussikyyti jättää. Poistettiin aamupalapeitöngit naapurin 24h-kiskasta ja eikun kyytiä ...
Boat Journey to Battambang
... Angkor too early, but it is done. I took a traditional, wooden longboat on Lake Ton Sap and the Sangker River to Battambang. It was a traditional longboat, but had a motor and no toilet for the 7 hour journey! Luckily we stopped at a lunch shack on ...
Battambang
... season. Compared to the touristy Siem Reap these people live so different. There's no streets nearby, everything happens on the river. Battambang (with a population of 300,000) was the biggest town we visited so far. Our hotel was right next to the ...
Cambodia by boat
Today was an early start as we set sail for a town called Battembang in north west Cambodia. By bus it would take around 2hr, however having read about the 'enchanting' boat ride to from Siem Reap to Battembang we decided we to do that - despite it taking ...