From Thailand to Cambodai!..Oh my! The last we spoke we had just left the quite beaches of Rayong and made our way back to the maddness in Bangkok! Fortunately it was not so chaotic this trip. With fewer travellers in the streets, it made for a pleasantly chill atmosphere... It is the Dry season now, and many people cannot handle the extreme hea...

After my two-way 12-hour (much longer than the Minnow's) tour of the Cambodian flatlands, I returned to Phnom Penh. It is an odd city. There is not much of a touristic nature to it, unless the history of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge counts. I went to the Tuol Sleng museum, and it reminded me of nothing more than Dachau. This former secondary school was...

hello hier g vu le patron de projects abroad cambodge et 1 des responsable de projects abroad monde : g explique mes soucis et g la terrible impression k'ils se foutent (j'espere me tromper mais g crois pas). ensuite g suis alle a l'orphelinat ou les enfants etaient super heureux de me revoir puis le patron de PA cambodge et celui du siege sont ...

FCC, Cambodia (the foriegn correspondents club) The FCC has only closed for three days since it opened. It was during the 1997 disturbances in Cambodia. Legend has it that Keith Quinn, then U.S. Ambassador, sent a telex to Bill Clinton and said, "the FCC is open again for business, things seem to be returning to normal." The FCC is a bar/restaur...

Hugh: We got the bus from Sihanoukville to the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh. The journey took almost 5 hours (including a 30 minute comfort stop) although it was probably not much more than 60 miles distance! That is mainly due to the fact that almost all vehicles in south-east Asia seem to be completely underpowered/overloaded/over-peopled etc...

Hello everyone Tomorrow we are traveling from Pnomh Phen to Ho Chi Minh City to Taipei to Taichung.... So there will be no entry until Sunday night ... There are pictures at the end of this series that deal with the horrendous destruction of the Cambodian people and I am not going to talk about that until Sunday... This story is our journey from...

We got to Phnom Penh at 7pm. The bus had been ok and we asked a tuk tuk driver to take us to California 2 Guesthouse which was on the riverfront in a main tourist part of the capital city. The tuk-tuk driver overcharged us, but by now that's something we're getting used to - anything to make an extra dollar! The place was ok, run by a couple of ...

Pnom Phenh is a sprawling city with chaotic roads and intersections just like in Vietnam. Lots of tuk tuks and motorbikes zooming around like crazy. The city lies along the Tonle se river and most of the guesthouses and tourist spots are in this area. It is still a very poor city with not much in the way of infrastructure or organised industry. ...

Well, travelpod fans, I've been accused of being 'grumpy' on my blog entries of late so this is going to be a very happy entry! No mention of genocide or child sex tourism here - no sir! Yesterday I went for an interview for a programming job here in Phnom Penh - bizarre or what? A great job really, cutting edge technology and a chance to learn ...

Our $4 ride to Siam Reap was a little scary. The driver spent half the time with his hand on the horn and the other half locking up the brakes, narrowly avoiding stray cattle that wander out onto the road. After more than enough close calls, we arrived safe and sound in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh. As soon as the bus arrived, it was comple...