Casa Hotel Phnom Penh
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5 Street 47 near Wat Phnom Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 12203, 855-23-426773
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Time to leave Siem Reap and move on to Phnom Penh. We had originally thought we would do it the hard way, and take a boat up the Tonle Sap river (where we did our floating village tour) and then across the lake. We had come across some pictures of what these boats were like, and were beginning to have some doubt about the sensibility of this. However, as the river has apparently dried up too much (or because it is the tourist low season - we're unclear exactly why) - the boats weren't running...
Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia lisa_nz
Tuesday 27th May Up nice and early ready for our flight to Phnom Penh. We had time for a quick breakfast and then off to Rambuttri Road to catch our bus to the airport. Once at the airport we found a nice quiet spot to repack our cases and left the enormous stripped bag at the "Left Baggage" depot as we did want to go loaded to Cambodia, we needed the space to bring more bags back. Once on the flight all went well and it was a real quick flight. We arrived in Phnom Penh and our e-visas (which...
Phnom Penh, Cambodia pturner
Wednesday 28th May Had a wonderful sleep last night in our Casa Hotel - very comfortable. We have a wonderful room with a great view of the Mekong River, fridge with 2 bottles free water every day. The breakfast (included in our price) was great with everything. We decided today to do most of our things on foot so we walked to the Central Market which we found very nice and interesting with lots of nice bags to buy. Everyone was nice and friendly, but on the way there we did find that the str...
Phnom Penh, Cambodia pturner
Thursday 29th May Up nice and early again and when we went down to breakfast there was an enormous buffet breakfast laid on as there had been a bus load of Chinese visitors. After breakfast we went outside and managed to find a tuk-tuk that was reasonable and got him to take us to the "Russian Market" which was really very far from the hotel - too far for us to walk. The Russian market was a bit of a dump and not as nice as the Central one so we did not buy anything there just had a walk arou...
Phnom Penh, Cambodia pturner
Wednesday 4th June Up nice and early this morning ready for our trip back to Phnom Penh by coach bus. Arrived early at our bus and managed to get nice front seats in the bus, the bus was late in leaving and eventually we left at 9.20am. We arrived at the border at 12 noon and this time because we had e-visas we had to go separately through the immigration check point while the rest of the bus went thro another way. We were a bit longer this time and the bus had to wait for us but we get clear...
Phnom Penh, Cambodia pturner
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... and blared Khmer pop music that resembled Britney Spears or The Backstreet Boys accompanied by drunken singing. Dogs howled and became fiercely territorial, streaming out of front gates and chasing us until we no longer seemed a threat. Mosquito nets and hammocks lined the balconies as whole families slept outside, children poking their heads out to watch us pass.
When we arrived at my house the lights were off and a padlock was on the front gate. I was momentarily ...
... and chemicals. Another quite confronting tourist spot.
A sign on a building at the Killing Fields, in broken english, summed up things like this,
"The method of massacre which the clique of Pol Pot criminals was carried upon the innocent people of Kampuchea cannot be described fully and clearly in words because the invention of this killing method was strangely cruel so it is difficult for us to determine who they are : They have the human form but they're hearts ...
... luxury -you really get to appreciate good facilities when you travel on the cheap.
Found myself a nice little café for breakfasts and spent some quality time with myself, just chilling and getting to know the staff. The rest of the group took a day trip to the islands, but the weather had been bad and I was keen to explore the town markets as I am desperately in need of cool clothes, especially ones that cover the shoulders and knees so that I can be respectable when ...
... entertained. Got back to the hostel and met up with a few others there and went for a few drinks. Well, a few is difficult when they are 50 cents a pint so it turned into a big night and we finished off by dancing to Dizzee Rascal in a club on a pontoon in the middle of Cambodia with hookers fighting in the middle of the dancefloor and ripping each others hair out. Very, very surreal!
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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... his arm around an even smaller girl as they crossed a busy street. He held her in such a protective way that he must have been her big brother.
My overall impression of Phnom Penh is not overly favorable. It's a big city, dusty, dirty... hard to get a feel for it in only two days but I'd be in no hurry to rush back. I did find that English is very widely spoken... the staff at the hotel spoke better English than I do! It's past disturbed me and left me ...
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