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
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This is a top pick! ... the countryside. Kampot had little else to keep us there much longer so we decided to head back to Phnom Penh sharing a taxi with another couple. Cambodia has been an interesting and surprising place full of beautiful, friendly people living in a land ...
Loving Phnom Penh & Happy Pizzas
This is a top pick! ... to feel like a foreigner in strange country instead of mass westerners haha we loved it and wish we had longer to spend in Cambodia. We did however find a pizza place that is suggested in the Lonely Planet …it sells happy pizzas so we decided to ...
Phnom Penh
This is a top pick! ... the woman 'operating' them was drinking petrol!!! The evening also proved inactive but this was intentional. We visited one of Phnom Penh's institutions - The Happy Herb Pizza Restaurant. As you can probably ascertain from the name, this place is not ...
Shoot Shoot?
This is a top pick! ... in the army and didn't need to shoot things. This usually shut them up. Being a tank commander also elicited a funny response too. Phnom Penh has a funny feel for me. There is nothing much in the town that appealed to me, apart from visting S-21. We ...
Goodnight Vietnam! - and tedious border crossing
This is a top pick! ... get through without one for the price of an extra dollar or something. Interestingly, the same extra dollar seems to allow you into Cambodia if you are a carrier of yellow fever, ie if you can't produce a medical certificate when asked, to show you've ...
Cambodian mish-mash
This is a top pick! ... neck. At 2 pm, our group met and we once again piled into the cramped mini-bus. About four hours later, we arrived in Phnom Penh. The first thing I did when we arrived was run my dirty clothes out to a laundry mat. In Cambodia, you don't personally ...
Cambodia
This is a top pick! ... have a good one, throw it quick!!! Sounds exciting but sadly our brown trousers were still in the wash!! We felt we couldn't leave Phnom Penh without paying our respects at the S 21 genocide prison that is now a museum. This was once an ordinary school ...
A date with the Khmer Rouge
This is a top pick! ... to walk home, and he said that where the lights ran out, it is dangerous, do not walk down this street. The speciality of Phnom Penh, well at Happy Herbs Pizzeria, is happy pizza. Upon arrival, Herb had been shut down. The restaurant next door, said he ...
Monks on the move
This is a top pick! ... a lot of queuing, a long wait, and an amount of dollars. We still cannot form a real impression of Phnom Penh. It does not represent the soul of Cambodia; that is to be found in the countryside. It is not typical of Cambodia either. It does not have the ...
Phnom Penh
This is a top pick! Our first full day in Phnom Penh, Louise's birthday, was celebrated in a rather sombre way, with a visit to the s-21 prison and the killing fields of Choeung Ek. S-21,, or Tuol Sleng prison, is the former Khmer Rouge prison, where those who supposedly ...
Siem Reap to Phnom Penh
This is a top pick! ... pleasant journey (maybe I'm getting used to this travelling malarkey) with some more gorgeous scenery - and the arrival in Phnom Penh was hysterical. Hordes of screaming Cambodians greeted us offering guesthouses, taxis, maps and a number of things I ...
Phnom Penh
This is a top pick! Day 73 - Phnom Penh After yesterday's venture it was time to do something a little more light-hearted (it would have been difficult not to). After our previous Cambodian examples of irresponsible or immature tourism (Happy Herb Pizza and buying the ...
Everybody Looks Suspicious
This is a top pick! ... ", I caught a glimpse of a stand that had bowls full of spiders, crickets and various other edible (!) insects. When we arrived in Phnom Penh in 2 hours, I noticed that the touts here weren't nearly as bad as I had imagined them to be. When you said ...
It's a Holiday In Cambodia
This is a top pick! ... . There's a memorial built which houses hundreds of skulls with holes in them from the blunt object used to kill them. Cambodia has such a sad history and the people are truly poor. There's amputees everywhere - the result of land mines placed there by ...
A Little Relaxing and Lots of Eating
This is a top pick! ... 4 busy days at Angkor, we were happy to stay at Boddhi Tree Del Gusto (great place!) which is a little oasis in busy Phnom Penh. We basically sat on the veranda all day and ordered from the super-cheap but incredible delicious menu...they even had many ...
Beach life in Cambodia
This is a top pick! ... to cross back to Thailand on the coastal town of Koh Kong. It was also an opportunity to see more of the capital of Phnom Penh. This time I chose to stay on the lakeside, where there were spectacular sunsets to behold. In the daytime, I got to ...
Charming Chaos
This is a top pick! Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Dave and I arrived in Phnom Penh just as the light was fading in the evening. We were dropped off at the bus company's ticket office, right in the middle of a busy and crazy market! Within milliseconds of stepping off the bus, hands ...
Happy Birthday to Meeeeeeeeeeeeee!
This is a top pick! ... due to the peaceful countryside setting of the killing fields and the fact that the museum looks pretty much like every school in Cambodia! Seeing the atrocities that went on is just heart-breaking. The bottom floor of the museum just has rows and rows ...
More NGOs than you can shake a stick at
This is a top pick! ... , lucky us. So nice to hear people showering at 5am... especially when they are of the singing disposition... Our first afternoon in Phnom Penh was spent ambling around the town and wow it is ugly. Dirty, busy, no footpaths, motos speeding past on ...
Finally got around to scanning in some pics ...
This is a top pick! Finally got around to scanning in some pics. Not in order. Here are the ones from Cambodia at end of March 2001. ...
Cambodia slow update a request to update ...
This is a top pick! ... Felt like I was in a particularly cheesy Wilbur Smith novel. We were having a strange kind of fun. Anyway, after 5 hours in Cambodia things were moving swiftly if not smoothly. However, about an hour shy of Siem Reap we had to cross a bridge. ...
The Amsterdam of the East
This is a top pick! ... how expensive it is considering the average Cambo earns about $20/month, and its difficult to get by on that in a day. So in a nut-shell, Phnom Penh has some good stuff to do, but you can really do it all in a day. Cambodia can be done in a week ...
Activity in Phnom Penh
This is a top pick! ... Phnom Penh After such a wasted (no pun intended) couple of days we opted to gain some respect and culture by visiting Phnom Penh's main attractions - the Killing Fields and the S-21 Detention Centre. I'm not going to go into the history of these ...
We're baaaack..... & Choeung Ek, Toul Sleng....
This is a top pick! ... and as we zip past the fork in the road I see a sign. Kampong cham... Not again dude!!! Seriously. About two hours outside of Phnom Penh there's another fork in the main road, one way signed to kampong cham, just past this we pull in to a soraya - the ...
Cambodian Cruiser: Off the Rails in Phnom Penh
This is a top pick! ... the 1970's are still an open-wound, yet to heal, on the nation's conscience. On April 17, 1975, thousands of Phnom Penh residents celebrated in the streets as victorious Khmer Rouge troops entered the capital, relieved that the five-year civil war had ...
Change of country change of heart
This is a top pick! ... switch from the van to a bus, nope not a tourist bus....Ahhhhh!!! Real buses!!!! And after a veeeeerrrryy long time we reached Phnom Penh, dark by this time and after twelve hours we opted for the easy - tuk-tuk.....Ahhhhh...tuk-tuk...how we missed ...
Capital city
This is a top pick! ... to go through life with the Khmer Rouge, you'd pour a proper drink too and after seeing S.21 we needed several! Here's to you Cambodia, we love ya! Tomorrow we set sail for Viet Nam. We're venturing down the Mekong Delta and into the land of Old Uncle ...
Words cannot describe
This is a top pick! ... word "no", you can't do that, you can't do this. Its what you can do here that is refreshing. From Siem Reap I travelled to Phnom Penh. This is a shocking city, it terms of what you learn here. Almost as soon as we arrived we were off to visit the ...
Five years and Five stars!
This is a top pick! Day 156 ; 5 years and 5 stars! Woke up a bit late but super tired so couldn't be bothered to move, Phil went out telling me ligitimate reasons on where he was going and why, with me none the wiser to his plotting! A little while later after ...
Day 1 at angkor today was the start of a 3 ...
This is a top pick! ... other Country i would probably get my ankle checked out at the hospital, but my guide book says that hospital treatment in Cambodia is extremely poor, and if you require medical treatment fly to Bangkok!!! I just have visions of going to the hospital ...