Hotel Cara Phnom Penh
No. 18, Street 47 & 84, Sangkat Srass Chork, Khanh Doun Penh Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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Our worst day so far!!
We set off from Siem Reap at 11.30am with a lovely packed lunch courtesy of the hotel and got driven to the bus station where we waited for our bus to leave for the 'non-stop', five hour journey to Phnom Penh. The ‘non-stop’ bus stopped about twenty times and took seven hours not five! I think it is fair to say that the journey was …
A harrowing history
We had decided to spend just one full day in Phnom Penh and then fly back to Bangkok the following day. We arranged a tuk-tuk driver for the day who drove us from place to place.
We knew very little about the history of the city and felt very ignorant after discovering that a brutal civil war battered the city only 35 years ago.
Arrived in Cambodia
We arrived in Phnom Penh airport and entered into the scrum which was passport control and immigration at the airport. We were surprised that nearly everything gets priced in US$ and that you can't change to or from Cambodian Riel anywhere outside of the country. I'm actually writing this on the 17th and have woken up at 2:45 this morning to watch …
S-21 Detention Centre (Toul Sleng Prison)
Today, we have been to the infamous S-21 Detention Centre in Phnom Penh. They had tried to preserve as much as possible in the state that it was found. We were walking around and thought that we saw blood drops still there on the floor. We went into the interrogation room and into the individual holding cells. There were also room after room of …
Eating Khmer Spiders in Cambodia!
Hi!!!
We're in Phnom Penh in Cambodia now. We got here yesterday after a 7 hour bus trip! We were supposed to leave Ho Chi Minh City at 6 oçlock yesterday morning, but about 10 minutes into our journey to Cambodia we realised (well, Ferg did) that we left our passports at the hotel!!! So we had to make the bus driver stop and we had to go …



