This was a long day spent on a 26 seat boat going down the river Mekong. A very long trip especially with the Vietnamese border police and then the Cambodian border Police. However everything went very smoothly and the border posts were situated in beautiful gardens and it was a pleasure to be off the boat for a while. Eventually the boat reache...

Well I landed back in India last week after a very quick visit to cambodia, I last visited cambodia 7 years ago and wow what a change the place is amazing. Its hard to believe a country can change so much! When I first visited in 2001 Cambodia touched us like no other country has done to this day, I have a personal love for Cambodia and its peop...

HE SAID: Getting up at 8AM for our day trip was not pleasant.  What was even less pleasant was taking a shower with no warm water.  It goes down as one of the quickest showers of my life.  We met our driver at 9AM and were off to the killing fields (Choeung Ek).  This is where the Cambodians that died under the Khmer Rouge re...

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!! The time here is, of course, 12 hours ahead, so just as you all are about to dig into some yummy, sanitarily prepared turkey and dressing, we have just finished eating at....Outback Steakhouse. Yes, you heard me. And it is one of my carnal sins of traveling to eat at any establsihment that appears to have Westr...

Phnom Penh..... yea say it again, Phnom Penh (sounds like pompen), what a cool name huh?  Well we are back in the big city after a few day relaxing on the soft sands of southern Cambodia. Actually had two of our nicest bus rides yet back and forth.  Not only did they show up on time, and not charge us a 100% markup but they were remark...

Auschwitz, Rwanda, Finsbury Park, some places will always be associated with horrific history and unfortunately Cambodia is one of them.  However, despite being shafted by a generation of social experimentation, genocide and corruption the whole country is pulling itself up well and has moved very close to the top of our 'places we'd come b...

Cambodia is a small country sandwiched between Thailand and Vietnam and covers an area about the size of Missouri. Likely the poorest country of the ASEAN group, the nation is still recovering from the devasting period of the Khmer Rouge and the complete setback that the regime created. Fortunately, all of that is over now, but the scars and eco...

After Tomb Raiding, and floating with the locals on Tanle Sap, it's back to the big city for us. Kris flys off to Hong Kong in the morning, and we're off to another beach: Sinhoukville here we come. *megs later comments the floating villiage was interesting, personally i prefer my cities on land but thats just me. the river was kinda gross, i'm ...

Our flight took off at 7am getting us into Cambodia just past 8am. We got our visas at the airport which cost 20 USD for 1 month. At Bangkok airport we met a fellow traveller from Austria who had been to Cambodia before and so gave us some helpful tips. We did not yet know where we were going to stay when we got there so we decided to follo...

Nathan here. Wasn't planning to have an entry for Phonm Penh but, in the end, had two funny stories to pass along.  BTW, nice enough city with a few sights, super affordable fine dining and shopping but two days is plenty.  Now for the stories. 1. Woke up on our second morning in Cambodia's capital to the incredibly lound sound of rush...