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Battambang Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Battambang, Cambodia
To Battambang on a Bus
... only place we stop at doesn't have very appetizing food! On they way I see more Mosques and even some Muslim clerics. Closer to Battambang I see some christian churches including an Assembly of God. I am forced for the first time to use my IPOD as I just ...
Downpour at Battambang
... seafood dish with crispy noodles at a pretty popular restaurant for the locals. Surprisingly there were only a handful of food stalls in Battambang. The street stalls that I wanted to eat at were packing up when I got there at 9 pm. At least the ...
some new pics
... a few beers, watched some movies, played some pool, visited the national museum, all in all very hard work ;) Am in Battambang now, will hop on a speedboat tomorrow, towards the ancient city of Ankor Wat. (where they filmed the movie Tombraider) ...
Battambang
... ", ca peut etre une voiture normal ou un pick-up 4X4. J'en trouve un, gros coup de chance qui va directement jusqu'a Battambang, nickel. Combien? 150 bahts! (3 euros, 20 000 riels), OK! Et la, c'est parti pour un voyage epique!! L'arriere du ...
Wat's Cooking!?
The best route to Battambong is under debate, - bus or boat - bus or boat. Boat we heard was quicker/more comfortable, and all apparently in good nick. We'd heard. An early start took us to the jetty for our scenic 'cruise' across Cambodias imposing ...
Nice Khmer Food (not the bugs though)
... on the packed bus, the 6 hours of broken air conditioning and overly loud Cambodian music would be our final such journey. Battambang is a typical Cambodian town surrounded by mountains and farmland, in wet season it must be incredibly lush, we had to ...
Boom, Boom...... If you got the money
... go to a shooting range. The Cambodian shooting ranges are famous throughout the backpacking/travel world. They are not "technically legal" in Cambodia. But in a country that does not seem to really have any laws at all, what is a "technicality?" They were ...
Battambang
Battambang, with a population of 140,000 people, is Cambodia's second largest city (in other words, it has 14 times fewer people than Phnom Penh, the capital, with its 2 million inhabitants). And, not surprisingly, it feels like a big small town. McNeill ...
Cambodian Kidnaps In The Snow
... up but eventually we were off, and after a very squashed couple of hours, we arrived at our destination. Initially, Battambang (inexplicably pronounced BattambOng) didn't fill us with much hope. Fairly dirty and quiet, a little bit shabby and quite dull ...
21st Century Monks
We moved on from Siem Reap on 6th January, with a boat trip to Battambang - a smallish, 'non-touristy' colonial city about 100 miles from Siem Reap. The boat had 2 benches along the side with enough space for about 15 people, but the boat owners manage ...
Battambang, Cambodia
... " classic hair cut that I got before I left... nobody thinks I am a DJ! After Siem reap we took a boat to a place called Battambang. lonely planet promised the most scenic boat ride in all of Cambodia to get there so how could we pass that up. we got ...
The Beauty of Battambang!
... us to a hotel where we could pay a dollar each a night! so off we trundled along in the tuk tuk through the streets of Battambang until we came to the Royal Hotel- it wasn't quite as cheap as we expected and the 1 dollar a night involved sharing a single ...
Battambang to Siem Reap
... Angkor Wat. Sorry about no photos. No way that I've found here to get them from camera to computer. Maybe in SR. Battambang is a very laid back provincial city. Many buildings dating from French colonial days, so a pretty place & very lush at this ...
The Hangover
... and orange juice. We waited patiently for the bus to arrive, and some did come and go, but not the one to our destination, Battambang. All of a sudden I had a wave of nausea, I looked desperately for a toilet and a sign indicated that there was one at the ...
Battambang
Chegamos à tarde em Battambang, a segunda maior cidade do Cambodia, batemos perna pela cidade e lá pernoitamos, en route para Siem Reap, onde ficam os famosos templos de Angkor. A viagem de ônibus de ...
Bamboo Train
Battambang is one of Cambodia's main cities but is quite rustic. We tried a few restaurants last night, a steak house with no steak and another one with a very limited menu until we stumbled upon a gem called the Khmer. Had fish and chips - fantastic! ...
More temples + Bamboo train
... lead us a bit, so we decided to let him be our guide. It was really a lot of fun. Today, I took a bus to Battambang, about four hours west of Siem Reap. There's not much there, but the highlight is the Bamboo Train, which consists of a ...
Journey of a Lifetime
... poncho. So with yet another mode of transport getting the better of us, we decided to hot foot it from the bamboo train and from Battambang altogether for the dizzy heights of the capital. Its only a few hours by bus, what could possibly go ...
Lost in Cambodia
... there showed us just how nice this city was. We rented a motorcycle to visit the rural area surrounding Battambang. ( The traffic in rural Cambodia is not nearly as crazy as what it was in Vietnam.) My only real concern was that if we did ...
Battambang and Around
... motorcycles at the bottom of the hill and took a good long trudge to the top. The reward was a breathtaking view of Battambang Province. From there we walked to another part of the mountain where there were caves where some thousands of people had been ...
Cambodian Chaos
... done it well. If you're easily offended though avoid it! Well, a couple of days ago, we crossed the border at Poipet in Cambodia (pronounced cess-pit) and hi-tailed it out of the sh!thole. It was a dive. We grabbed a taxi for the 50km to Sassophone ...
The Moto Mafia
... . 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 Province
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
... to 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 ...
Jump off NOW, they are faster and they have COWS!!
... 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 ...
The bamboo train...
So I arrived in Battambang and not sure what to expect and to be honest there was not a lot going on despite it being Cambodia's second most populous city. But one of the things it is known for is its famous bamboo train that runs into the ...
Proper Cambodia
Second largest city in Cambodia and we walked around the whole place in 2 hours! This was the real Cambodia, no tourists, dirt roads and jungle!! We rented a bike for a day, broke down in the middle of no where only to find out we had run out of gasoline ...
Cambodian potatoes aren't like Jersey ones at all!
... geezer" and "let's make like a baby and head out", one that was even new to us! There isn't much to do in Battambang itself, the main attraction being the boat ride to get there, so we spent the following day on an excursion in the countryside. An ...