Country Info
- Phnom Penh
- Capital
- Riel (KHR)
- Currency
- 12,491,501
- Population
- KH
- Country Code
Phnom Penh Slideshow
Phnom Penh
Travel Blogs from Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Rainman
This is a top pick! ... up a few of the city sights and bartering a little at the local markets trying to find a bunch of high quality knocked off watches. Cambodia is full of knocked off stuff, DVD box sets the job lot, and all of it seems pretty good quality if you dig deep ...
The Killing Fields
This is a top pick! ... , I could not understand the horrors of it then but I knew that now I would be confronted with its legacy. From Phnom Penh we visited S-21, standing for Security Office 21, specifically designed for the interrogation and extermination of anti Khmer Rouge ...
Battambang to Phnom Phen and everything in between
This is a top pick! ... he studied at an International school and invited us to come and speak to the class the next day. Unfortunately, I'd already stayed in Cambodia longer than planned, and knew that if I kept on adding more and more nights I'd simply never make it to ...
Journal aaarrrrrrrhhhhhhh
This is a top pick! Another day spent catching up on the old journal writing. Sometimes this journal writing felt like too much of a chore, however I made sure it was pretty much kept up-to-date the best I could. Maybe I'll introduce a video diary into the equation, as ...
Sad times, great sandwich.
This is a top pick! ... this country. The effects of this torture and the continuous threat of live mines throughout the country can be seen everywhere in Cambodia. The effects of the millions of mines that were laid all over the country many years ago are still present in the ...
Phnenomenal
This is a top pick! Opting out of the whole travelling overland deal yet again, we took a flight to Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. It is now very much back on the tourist trail following one of the most gruesome and horrific recent histories of any country. As the film "The ...
first medical diffulculty
This is a top pick! Not much should have happened here, should have just been passing through, but i awoke to find that i couldn't hear out of my left ear. Went to a private hospital, the best in the country, and it turns out i have an inflamed ear canal, nothing serious. ...
On the 'road' to Phnom Penh
This is a top pick! ... proceeded to question me about anything and everything and even asked me which nationality of man I wanted to marry!?! Eventually arrived in Phnom Penh at about 3:30 (I can see how they mistook this for 12..) and got crushed by loads of men trying to ...
A dark history
This is a top pick! ... people who can see the atrocities held at this place, the better it will be. The next stop, this time further near the centre of Phnom Penh, was S-21 (also called the "Tuol Sleng Museum"). And I thought the Killing Fields were grim; S-21 is a lot more ...
I made it to Cambodia!
This is a top pick! ... a yellow form and casually walked through the x-ray machine and into Cambodia, no hassle, no worries, and a buck up. A short journey into Phnom Penh and we were dropped at a guesthouse as usual, actually boxed in by the foyer and plants, but I managed to ...
Just like Rambo
This is a top pick! I have just had one of the bizarre days since I've been traveling...... We got to the capital and I really needed air con, so I convinced Chris to get a hotel room...I had one of the best sleeps ever after days of sweat and flu. So the day. It ...
Beauty and horror
This is a top pick! ... and brought back many of its treasures (and Cambodian culture). For my part, although both palaces are impressive, I liked Phnom Penh. We walked back along the lake to our guesthouse. After Vietnam, where satellite TV is standard, ...
Phnom Penh
This is a top pick! We spent just two nights in PP. S-21 was our main goal. It is pretty shocking. We decided not to go to the killing fields as we have seen enough of that in Battambang. PP is a very busy and a crazy city with seemingly no center. The river front ...
Life and Death at S-21
This is a top pick! It's not a matter of if you will be affected by the high school-cum-concentration camp Tuol Sleng (or Security Office 21; 'S-21' for short); it's a matter of when. If it not when you first lay eyes upon the gallows that greet you upon entry, then it ...
Hot Pot then Pol Pot
This is a top pick! ... of the appalling mess this country got itself into after the Vietnam war. Pol Pot and his Kymer Rouge took over Phnom Penh as a liberator from the Royal decadent and corrupt regime, and within three hours began torturing and executing the first of his ...
Killing Fields
This is a top pick! ... this was a school, no-one died, when this was a torture center, no-one learned'. That's it for now.. I'll be hanging around Phnom Penh for a few days with some of the friends I've met before heading up to the lost city of Angkor, to see the best of ...
Lots of walking and exploring in Phnom Penh
... music (the live music in the bar that night), guess you learn something every day! The following day we guide ourselves around Phnom Penh centre which is pleasant – it faces the river, there are well finished park areas and there are plenty of ...
shadows of the past
This is a top pick! ... I knew one day would be enough for me otherwise I'd just get "templed out". I was on the bus the next morning to Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. LP suggested what turned out to be an alright guest house right on the lake. I went to the Nat'l Museum which ...
Cambodian charms
This is a top pick! ... Hello Cambodia, could you become our favorite country so far?, mmmm I think you just might be! When we finally arrived in Phnom Penh after a long long journey traveling into the country via the Mekong by boat, we were taken straight to a particular ...
This little piggy went to market...
This is a top pick! ... and the hairs on her skin were so prickly and rough! But she was very sweet and in the end I'm glad I fed her the bananas. Phnom Penh was a beautiful city, but much more poor than I expected it to be. I thought it would be similar to Bangkok, Thailand ...
Depressing day
This is a top pick! ... Spent a large part of today close to death on the back of a motorbike, weaving our way through the puddles on the roads on Phnom Penh, which are big enough to be classed as small lakes. Our drivers, Mark and Paul (I'm sure they're not their real ...
Another day, another country
This is a top pick! ... I'll return there one day however as it was an interesting country and I saw barely anything in our north-south blitz. The drive to Phnom Penh was nothing like I would ever have expected. The landscape is totally flat as far as the eye ca see. I never ...
Taking a walk
This is a top pick! ... Asia. Something you may find incredible is that up until a month ago there were no ATM's anywhere in Cambodia! There is now an ANZ Royal bank in Phnom Penh which dishes out dollars so rather than faffing around at the bank again it made sense to use it ...
10 days in Phnom Penh
This is a top pick! ... temples that we had seen there. Central Market One thing we have learnt is that Cambodians love to shop! The central market in Phnom Penh is a huge enclosed mass of stalls selling pretty much everything. Even Anna and I managed to spend a good four hours ...
Phnom Penh
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas Jan 18, Cambodia, Phnom Penh Though in Bangkok we had managed to buy e visas for Cambodia, we had to go to Phnom Penh to buy visas for Vietnam.... big city, noisy with all the vehicles honking all the time and quite dirty! Lots ...
CAMBODIA: Phnom Pehn
This is a top pick! ... I think I've totalled WELL OVER 15 now, but hopefully you've been tallying them all up xxx ................. Gran & Grandpa. Hello from Cambodia!!! I'm glad you are both getting my blogs now! Sorry for the swearing and drug taking, but I wrote it for ...
Phnom Penh - The Killing Fields.
This is a top pick! A bus trip took us down to Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia where we elbowed our way through the annoying touts and with some help from passerby Westerners, found ourselves a cheap but OK guesthouse, for our 2 day stay. Most people go to Phnom ...
Depressed? You will be!
This is a top pick! ... to Choeng Ek killing fields to be 'liquidated' and only 7 people were found alive in the prison when the Vietnamese liberated Phnom Penh in early 1979. The place looks still like a school with 3 blocks surrounding a grassy courtyard but the barbed wire ...
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