Fortune Hotel Phnom Penh
No.2, Street 67 Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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Making Maps Without Borders, Episode 5/20
... Surya Subedi, The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Cambodia, advised that land rights is now a major concern in Cambodia. From the other end of the spectrum, a senior (as in 70y/o) ruling party MP was bashed by his security guard in 2008 with an iron bar. The guard obtained the position as part of a plan to carry out revenge for having land ...
Phnom Penh
... gå bagom indhegningerne, ind på dyrepassernes område og bedst af alt fik vi lov til at rører ved rigtig mange af dyrene -der er nogle rigtig gode billeder!
Phnom Tamao er også nummer 2 sted i verden hvor en af elefanterne har fået en protese. Det er en et-årig elefant der blev fundet i en bjørnefælde, og for at den stadig skal have et ordentlig liv fik den denne protese.
Løver har været uddød i landet i ca. 500 år, men leoparder, tigere, elefanter, ugler, ...
A Classic Asian Capital
... a fairly poor part of town and we were still able to see on a regular basis how the town is trying to rebuild itself.
We spent 2 nights here and our full day was spent seeing the main sights around the city. We chartered a tuk tuk driver the night before and he came driving past our guest house screaming out our names during our balcony breakfast like a scene out of pretty woman. So off we went, zipping through a fairly slummy part of town to arrive at our first ...
Gone But Not Forgotten
... of house arrest before dying after 30 years of avoiding any form of punishment.
Yet another horrible and senseless mass murder etched in to the history books.
Cambodia seems to be getting on with life. I couldn't help noticing the average age of people ranging around 30 years old. Phnom Phen is a capital that is slowly coming to age.
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C is for...Capital City of Cambodia
... of course). Our walk from here to the Independence monument takes us past the Vietnam-Camboda friendship monument and an endless supply of government ministry buildings (the Range Rovers are more common than the motos here – the contrast to the vast majority of the rest of the city is stark). We finished our day’s sightseeing at the disturbing Tuol Sleng museum based in the buildings of the primary torture chambers and prison of Pol Pot and the ultra-communist ...


