Battambang, Cambodia Travel Blogs

Battambang
Dec 11, 2006 (37 photos)

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Battambang Province
May 11, 2005 (3 photos)

Non volevo neanche fermarmi a Battambang e invece e' stato molto interessante per conoscere meglio la "vera Cambogia" tra visite ai killing fields (campi di sterminio dei khmer rossi), villaggi, fattorie e boxe khmer ( e'la stessa cosa della boxe ...

The Circus is Coming to Town
Nov 17, 2009 (33 photos)

... the track being bent and gaps between sections, you would get a bone crunching feeling every time you hit a missing section. Alison: Battambang isn't the most picturesque place to visit but, as Nigel has described, there is quite a lot to see and do when ...

Jump off NOW, they are faster and they have COWS!!
Feb 3, 2009 (28 photos)

... on his own people in 1975, he rounded up everyone educated, everyone with glasses, all foreigners and all leaders.  Battambang is Cambodia's second largest city, even though it feels like a small town, and you can actually notice a whole generation ...

Bamboo Train
Oct 13, 2005 (4 photos)

... something out of a cartoon. They really got up to speed on them as well! The only other intertesting thing that happened in Battambang was the festival with free Thai Boxing - but we missed the whole thing by about 1 minute!! After a couple of days ...

Battambang
Mar 6, 2007

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The Moto Mafia
Mar 21, 2007 (4 photos)

... . Basically a cheap and easy way the locals developed for getting around, it utilises the worryingly shoddy 'main' line between Battambang and Phnom Penh. The vehicle itself is a rickety bamboo platform, two sets of wheels and a small petrol motor. It ...

Battambang
Mar 3, 2007 (1 photos)

Il viaggio in barca e' stato il viaggio piu pesante che abbia mai fatto. Allo stesso tempo pero'e'stato anche un avventura. Sono venuti a prenderci alle 5:30 per portarci al lago. Saliamo sulla barca e partiamo, la prima parte del viaggio attraversiamo ...

Boat to Battambang
Jun 17, 2006 (8 photos)

I took the boat from Siem Reap to Battambang, Cambodia. I am really just passing through Battambang on my way back to Bangkok, but it is a laid back little town. The boat was hot, uncomfortable and crowded, but somehow it seemed like exactly how it ...

Battambang, 13 - 15 April 2009
Apr 14, 2009 (42 photos)

... and everything got drenched, of course. It did at least stop for the last half hour ... and we finally arrived at 17h00 !! Battambang is a provincial town ... not a great deal to see but pleasant enough. We mainly rested the next day! The final day we ...

Orrori e meraviglie
Sep 15, 2008 (50 photos)

... conta non e' la destinazione, ma il viaggio, e scoprire cosa c'e' dietro la prossima curva. Dietro la mia ennesima curva c'e' Battambang, la seconda citta' piu' popolosa di questa nazione, anche se a dire la verita' si fa molta fatica a chiamarla citta'. ...

Battambang et environs, cirque phare ponleu selpak
Jul 8, 2007 (33 photos)

... la bouteille.. merci au revoir... pour moi c est enorme deja.. le pas.. tellement difficile le khmer.. voila c est tout.. battambang n a pas grand chose a offrir a premiere vue au touristes, comme le nord du perou ou du chili par exemple.. j aime bien ...

A brief stop for the "real" Cambodia
Nov 24, 2007 (3 photos)

... journey - not even ear plugs would block the screeching out! We did say we wanted to sample the "real" Cambodia, we definitely got that!   Battambang is a small town that can be explored on foot within an hour or so and so a nice contrast to the ...

Boating it to Battambang
Nov 8, 2006 (5 photos)

... on a metal roof for 6 hours straight and as the sun heats the metal up a lot it kinda burns you also. Anyway arrived in Battambang and found meself a hotel had been reading up about so happy days. Wasnt sure how long i was going to spend there anyway so i ...

Battambang
Sep 2, 2005 (5 photos)

Sleepy little town that the guide book tends to rave about. There is really not much here, but rather peaceful after the chaos of Phnom Penh. There are a number of colonial buildings here, but mostly run down as noone can really afford to look after ...

(42) Biking around beautiful BATTAMBANG
Nov 13, 2007 (32 photos)

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Siem Reap To Battambang
Nov 10, 2004 (5 photos)

... for this!) without English. The meal cost us 6 dollars - which included 3 beers for Stewart! Day 11 - Wednesday 10th November - Battambang We took our first trip on Motos today. We were taken for a tour of the countryside which almost everyone who ...

Battambang
Oct 22, 2007

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Battambang - Boat Ride
Jun 21, 2008 (19 photos)

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Slow boat to Battenbang
Apr 5, 2007 (5 photos)

... get their feet wet. The trip was great as we passed through what most guide books would descride as "the real Cambodia" - rice and maze fields, grazing buffalo and the occasional riverside community.  Small childern seemed to take great delight in ...

The Best Day
May 31, 2005

... . The artillery was of little interest to me, but the view was amazing. Again, we could see the entire countryside, the city of Battambang, from which we had come, and the coming rain. It was spectacular. Then, we began our descent. This time, we took ...

Battambang (Cambodia)
Mar 6, 2008 (9 photos)

... must get some kind of commission for doing so. It took another hour at least to get through the Thai departures and immigration. To get to Battambang, my first port of call, I had to get a taxi with 3 random Cambodians, a woman, a man, and an old lady with ...

Day 47 - Phnom Penh to Battambang
Oct 19, 2007 (6 photos)

... and despite my lack of sleep and having no clue what he was ranting about, I found him quite entertaining. We arrived in Battambang an hour later than we were advised yesterday, but there appears to be absolutely bugger all here so that's not a disaster. ...

Into history
Dec 31, 2004 (4 photos)

... keep all places on the map, and to make the entries not too long.) Took the boat from Siem Reap (remember, Angkor) to Battambang, Cambodia's 2nd city. Not that you could tell - it looks like a sleepy provincial town. The boat ride took much longer than ...

Out of Thailand, into Cambodia
Aug 28, 2006 (5 photos)

... wall (Bangkok seems to be full of them). THe next motning nice and early we jumped on the bus headed to Siem Riep in Cambodia. It started out air conditioned, driving on tarmac roads but as soon as we crossed the border we got crammed into a tiny mini bus ...

Last Day in Battambang
Jun 2, 2005

I think today was our last day in Battambang. Tomorrow morning (if all goes as planned), we leave for Siem Reap by boat. Today we drove around with Tony and Panya, and we saw some of the workforce behind Cambodian cuisine (noodle makers, rice paper maker, ...

A trip to Battambang
May 4, 2008 (1 photos)

... us because of the length of the journey....... But he was truthful with everything else so we give him the benefit of our doubt. Hotel at Battambang was great....sorry we do not have time to explore. Evening meal and to bed as anotherlong day tomorrow

Bada-bing, Battambang!
Mar 19, 2006 (7 photos)

... (well my knock-off lonely planet Cambodia, only$3.50 US, not bad) I decided that the nearby provincial capital of Battambang seemed like a good choice, with some old french-colonial architecture and some good day trips. So I went ahead and booked my ...

Siem Reap to Battambang
Aug 28, 2006

Day 1 Catching the boat to Battambang was interesting. They overloaded the boat as they do here. After 1 hour the boat had taken on alot of water and was rocking a bit too much for most of our liking. I was hoping for a capsizing story, but alas we ...

Battambang
Feb 2, 2009

... were quite a bit nicer but we have been traveling a long time and are used to roughing it a little. Battambang is one of the biggest cities in Cambodia and we stayed close to the market downtown.  On our first night there we walked by the market at ...