Battambang Guest Houses - Reviews and Rates

We caught a long noisy canopied motor boat to travel nearly 80km across lake Tonle Sap and up a muddy twisty parched river to Battambang. Six hours took us past floating homes, stilt homes, spirit houses on tall stilts, water hyacinth, pelicans, king fishers, comorants, ducks, several weddings and numerous fisherfolk and other water based trader...

Right, we arrived in Battambang after an 11!! hour boat trip which should have taken a mere 8. Oh well, with hind sight the first 3 hours were beautiful, passing through floating villages, lush green landscapes ans many many waving kiddies. HOWEVER, the remaining time was spent mostly literally stuck in the mud. As it was dry season, the river w...

The boat trip from Siem Reap to Battambang was about 8 and a half hours. It was advertised, kind of like to the scam bus to Cambodia, as estimated to take anywhere from 6 to 23 hours. Everything in this country depends on the conditions - conditions of the weather, the equipment, the mood, the karma, you name it and it can change everything. Fo...

Hired a Moto for a tour around Battambang - including another mountain top temple (complete with Kyhmer Rouge Killing cave) - rice fields, plantations and rice wine (only had a couple of glasses this time LOL). Finishing with the Bamboo railway (set to close in the next few years - if anyone wants the video drop Ben a line).

Luckily I have a lot of stuffing in my backside. If I had a boney butt, I would not be able to sit and type this right now! The roads here are bad. Not paved. Ruts. Stones. Drop offs. Ditches in the middle. There are so many dirtbikes and bicycles here, that you can see their tracks on the dusty roads that everyone has taken, and which must be t...

I'm living the travelors dream. I have met two very nice Cambodian Men. One has invited me to his sisters house. I have now been there for four days. I've now extended my stay for 3 more days. I cannot even start to explain how elated I am with my current situation. I am learning more about Cambodian Culture in 4 days than I would a month in a g...

5th March I was up a 6am today to pack my last few bits before getting the minibus to the Cambodian border. I met a nice Korean couple on there, Andy and Alyssa (their English names) and a couple of Germans who didn't speak a lot of English. It took about 7 hours to get to the border, contrary to the 4 hours they told me at the travel office. We...

The Royal Hotel is in a street facing the east corner of the big market. A very big, clean room for 7$ / night. If you like to take kitchen lessons..run to the smoking pot restaurant to book : only 8$ for a morning, 3 dishes and a very well done recapitulating book. There are only 10 persons / day...and you will not find such a good price in the...

2 days really was enough in Phonm Pehn so I decided to set off to Battambang in the West of the country. There isn't that much to do there but I felt I was in need of a few days chilling and it is possible to get a boat to Siem Reap (where Angkor Wat is located). The bus didn't leave till lunchtime so had a relaxing morning and then got on the b...

hi everybody, i can still feel my bottom and my legs. We woke up at about 5.30 am and got ready. We had breakfast at the hotel, and then we were picked up at 7.00am. No reason to get angry, cambodia is like this. But we did not have seats either we had to seat in two improvised seats, and had no space for our legs. Never mind either, as it was a...