Juliana Phnom Penh
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16 Juliana 152 Rd., Sangkat Vealvong Khan 7 Makara Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 855-23-880530
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Due to lack of Internet complications in the last couple of days as we switched over to a new hotel, the Juliana in PP, I am making this update two days past the last entry. I have also recovered from jet lag, although we have been going to sleep around 8 pm the last couple of nights or so. On Saturday, we visited another orphanage, not open to Int. adoptions, but many families from around the world support and send donations to the children living there. The place was overall better in compa...
Phnom Penh, Cambodia beth_ann
We have spent three days in Phnom Penh. Not the nicest of cities, dirty, polluted and difficult to walk down the street without very desperate locals trying to sell you something. It's not a comfortable place, it feels desperate, poor and aesthetically horrible. A highlight however was our lovely driver Bun Phat who took us around to the war museum and the markets and out for dinner, the going rate for him and his air conditioned car was US$35 for the day. We had a selection of drivers that w...
Phnom Penh, Cambodia capravr
After settling in to our new hotel room (a lovely ground floor room not more than 10 steps from the pool) we decided we would hire Mr Kong to take us to the temples so we went and found him and agreed on a price for the afternoon, $8US. That afternoon we explored Angkor Wat thouroughly. It was fairly quiet as it was around lunchtime. They are working on the main central part of the temple so we couldn't climb up into there but we were able to go everywhere else and spent several hours explori...
Siem Reap to Phnom Penh, Cambodia dakgrrl
Phnom Penh is not the prettiest of towns and did not really do much to endear itself to either of us. We are not sorry that we visited but we won't be rushing back either. It is quite dirty and obviously a quite a poor city. It is chaotic but also quite vibrant but a little bit seedy in parts, especially after dark. In our talk with other travellers it seems that Phnom Penh is much nicer now than it was a few years ago so maybe in a few more years it will be better. On our first morning in Ph...
Phnom Penh, Cambodia dakgrrl
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... to Siem Reap which has one of the 6th wonders of the world called Angkor Wat. Basically it's a temple complex that was built for the king in the 12th century as his state temple. I've been told that it's quite the thing to see and I can't wait!
I've finally been able to upload my pictures from the rest of my time in Thailand so have a look at my past entries and enjoy!
Ok so blog entries have been few and far between recently, mostly because we've not been doing anything really worth blogging about. Our third stay in Phnom Penh before we head northeast to Laos lasted 11 days and included the 2 main sights we had saved for this last visit - The Royal Palace and The Killing Fields. We also needed 6 working day to get both our Laos and Thai visas sorted. We can't get a visa at the Laos border we ...
Phnom Penh, Cambodia emmaandpaul
The Kingdom of Cambodia.
Where cows roam leisurely across the roads, slowing and even stopping traffic sometimes.
Where one can still see bullock carts peddling earthenwares.
Dead pigs lying legs up in the air on the back of a motorbike being rushed to or from the market.
Long stretches of rice fields being cultivated by both man and buffalo.
People swimming in lotus ponds.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
premla
... to see. Neither was a barrel of laughs, so I’m afraid this blog entry won’t be either. If you can’t get enough genocide in your life, though, read on (and the jokes stop here).
First off, Tuol Sleng Museum (S21), a former High School that the Khmer Rouge turned into a prison, or 'security centre’, as they termed it. The prison is eerily abandoned. It’s a cold, harsh and gruesome sight, with former classrooms turned into ...
... the path you must follow around the grounds of the fields, you were walking on the bodies of the dead! It was quite sad and made your tummy feel queasy if you thought about it too much! The grounds were pretty rough in their organization but gave you a feel for what happened. As well, on the tour, you were introduced to the Killing Trees, trees that people were tied to and executed against- blood and axe marks still embedded in the tree ...
Phnom Penh, Cambodia katt.busby
... don't know how else to put it) like skulls and clothes. Tuol Sleng has hundreds of actual prisoner photos on display of the men, women and children tortured and killled there, and to actually look at their faces was just something else...
So that's pretty much the worst of humanity! I'm glad to be leaving on a high after spending a couple of days in Siem Reap looking at surely some of the greatest achievements of humanity.
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