Woolly Rhino Guesthouse Phnom Penh

... just two days before Hari Raya Haji.They live within the city limit in a place named Beng Kork, a small enclave of Cham people.

Haji Mohammad Yunus who is head of the family is also the Imam of a mosque in the area.He is an affable man,soft spoken and speaks Malay with a Kelantanese accent.His daughter Mukmina, whom I find easier to understand, did Islamic study in Malaysia and is now an ustaza.She teaches young Muslim children how to recite the Koran and say the daily ...

... amazing to behold even without the context of a Wat and a jungle-y backdrop.

Because we're only pretend tomb raiders, we made a stop to one of the many art stores nearby and purchased a twin pair of Apsara statues for our growing foreign collection. There made from an unknown stone though -- no, we didn't get ripped off, but we'll get all of our geologist family and friends to lick/snort/bite and rub up against the rock back home to get a quantitative ...

... Other floors held stories of people whose relatives went to S-21. In most cases people just disappeared and no one knew what became of them. The Khmer Rouge was almost indiscriminate in who it picked up. In fact anyone who had previously lived in a city was “suspicious” anyone who had worked for the previous government and all of their relatives were all murdered, even people who joined the Khmer Rouge were killed at the ...

... Cath about about it looking like and eery teletubby land where they have excavated all the mass graves. There's a stupa (Buddhist tomb) as you walk in containing all the skulls/bones/clothes stacked high and in age order. It goes into graphic detail about how people were killed and what happened to them at each place in the field - even the children and babies. Its unbelievable how recent this was. There's a school next door to the field and the ...

... but they're cheap and good fun, so it's ok.

My guide book says 'the guesthouses used to be just rickety shacks with dodgy planking, but now they're more solidly built', hmm, well, would you believe it - mine is STILL a rickety shack with dodgy planking. The whole place shakes at times, which is a bit worrying, and my room couldn't be much more basic - just a bed and a fan, but I have a private shower room, and what more can you expect for $5 a night ...

... downpour and had to run for cover under the nearest shelter for fear of being swept away. We ended up however finding ourselves as the only two white people in a very popular shelter which over the course of the thunderstorm drew an interesting and most diverse mix of people to shelter under it. The attention was soon drawn from us by a couple of kids starting what kids do best - showing off. The rain was so heavy it had actually formed a layer of ...

Experience life in Cambodia while volunteering your time to teach conversational English in the capital city, Phnom Penh.



Living independently or as part of a group of international
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... guest houses on the lake side which have a year left at best.
Our room is "relatively clean" by a dogs standard, before we said yes to the room I insisted they changed the sheets, however they are only marginally cleaner.


The bathroom door is non existent and the toilet is broken but there is a cold shower. The view out the window however is really nice of the partially filled lake ...

... HOOT!"
Me: "what's wrong?"
Sarah (pointing): "HOOOOOOT!!"
Me: "Eh? UUUUUUNGH!!"

So the mouse, petrified by all the noise coming from the humans, ran down the drain pipe. It was pretty big for a mouse, and in fact, we speculated later that it was a juvenile rat. Either way it was dark brown and wet looking and had made a little squeak. After we had calmed down, we covered the drain hole with a big bucket full of water. With the ...

... always full. As a minor adjunct it also added that the trains were fitted with gun turrets and that recently a bridge had collapsed as a train was going over it on the route we would be taking. And then there was the matter of the three backpackers who had been kidnapped and subsequently executed by the Khmer Rouge on the same route.

These facts served to put people off the idea of riding the rails - but it remains a cheap way to travel. Very cheap, in fact, and it would ...