Star Hotel Battambang

... temple (a very small version of Angkor Wat, with 358 steps leading to the top); the Khmer Rouge&#8217;s &#8220;killing cave,&#8221; old artillery left over from the civil war of the 1980&#8217;s, and lots of beautiful countryside (check out the pictures for more info). <br><br>That night we went to Phare Penlau Selpak, a school that began originally in a refugee camp in Thailand. Its purpose back then was to teach art skills to ...

... that run it. <br><br>All in all hand a better time in Battambang than I had anticipated but 1 full day is all you need. Although the initial warmth I felt towards this place quickly faded as I entered the dark period of my travels. Yes the worst has happened, my ipod has been messed up (long story!) and it has to be sent back home to be restored therefore I am sitting in an internet cafe in Phnom Penh worrying about the 6 hour border crossing to Vietnam I have ...

... bit of fun and went on a bamboo train also known by the locals as a nori.<br>The train is formed by two sets of railway wheels, a bamboo mat and a small cc engine. We watched excitedly as our train was put together then we loaded on the motorbikes and off we went. It was quite a bumpy run but we both loved it. About 20 minutes into our journey we came across another bamboo train that was ...

... les parc de la ville sur de la musique de black eye peas traduit en cambodgien, ca valait la peine. hier soir, on est alle suivre un cours de cuisine, vraiment cool. cetait un cours dans une famille et on a appris a faire 3 recettes. vous pourrez donc gouter la nourriture dici a notre retour. appart que le gars etait en bedaine et rotait non stop, cetait vraiment ecoeurant. on a gouter au vin de serpent, fait avec de lalcool de riz. cetait vraiment fort. aujourdhui, on est alle ...

... 10 miles an hour (this is not an exageration) and our chosen method of transport. You know in cartoons and very old Westerns you used to get those wooden platforms with a see-saw in the middle which slaves operated across great big bits of America (normally in super wide angle and panning out to show how far they're traveling)? Well in Cambodia, there's something similar except that like everything else it's operated by a motorbike engine and like everything ...

... beans and coconut milk inside a bit of bamboo. It is good takeaway food and environmentally friendly. Then a quick visit to a fishing village, and finally the bamboo train which runs on a single track between Phnom Penh and Siem Reap. They take the lightest one off the rail if they met one coming in the other direction.

Alweer een nieuw verhaaltje uit Cambodja. Vanuit Battambang ditmaal. Alles verloopt nog steeds prima hier. We genieten van de vakantie en het land. Na het verstuurd hebben van mijn laatste berichtje hebben we nog even gewandeld over de markt (sjaals voor mij en t-shirts voor duts gekocht) en zijn we naar het hostel gegaan om wat te drinken. Gister hebben we gebruikt om even uit te slapen en op de bank op het balkon te lezen. In de middag hebben we een boottocht gemaakt naar een ...

... lake, then up the river past several floating villages that move locations depending on the water level. Zig zagged up the river, often reversing to turn corners. Eventually arrived at the town. Tied up at a shop and transferred by bus to a hotel in the town. It was classified as the best hotel in town, but its real rating was somewhere near comfortable. <br><br><br>Back to one ...