Renakse Hotel
Travel Blogs from Phnom Penh
The Lap of Luxury
After sweltering in Vientiane, I decided to crash into Phnom Penh and live the good life. After the flight, I picked up a taxi to the city center and then convinced him to drive me a little further to a place called the Renakse Hotel. Incredible building, a nice room, AIR CONDITIONING, free breakfast, etc etc etc for $35/night. Really far too much …
The Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda
Everyday I'm in Cambodia I have to pinch myself. From the first moment I arrived I couldn't quite believe that I was "in Cambodia". Cambodia was in the news and awful lot when I was a child and stories of the atrocitites have obviously lodge deaplyinto my subconscious. My first impression was that this place wasn't as scarey as I thought it would …
Gym for the sake of it and BBQ Party!
... party' was just a BBQ with the volunteers and the dad in normal clothes, not a party at all!!! Don't call it a party people cos u get an English girl excited!!!! Was really cool thou, we chatted and laughed and the dad cooked the food in front of us, lots of meet and fish and noodles and mushrooms etc, and then sweet things too, really nice. Dropped a tomato on my white trousers though, no surprise!!! Pu was playing the caustic and we were having a nice ...
Journée "Memoires" à Phnom Penh
... en 2011. De nombreux trafics (pierres précieuses, bois, filières de prostitution,
drogues) en direction des pays voisins et un système judiciaire de
qualité médiocre pénalisent le développement économique. D'autres
problèmes hérités du désastre Khmer rouge ralentissent aussi le développement
du pays comme la question des terres (le cadastrage, supprimé par les
Khmers Rouge, est encore loin d'être finalisé) ou l'éducation, le
...
The Killing Fields
... Penh seemed to be much ‘poorer’ as a city, the roads were in a worse state, the pavements not as cared for and overall the city just seemed ‘grittier’. We asked CK about the fireworks we had seen last night, they were to commemorate the countries’ independence from the French, and the celebrations would continue for the next few days. The strange thing was that the country was also in mourning as their king; Sihanouk had died at the age ...