Angkor Hotel Phnom Penh

... all get on board ! ...... it's exactly the same boat that I came on yesterday ! . Five uneventual hours later I'm in Phnom Penh and I go back to my hotel, the Mekong Hotel with a big big red sign and white letters ! ...... got settled in and then go out. ...

... the next day. Basically our only plans were to go to the Russian market and make sure to send off Kelley's financial aid packet. Phnom Penh is such a crazy place, it is dirty smelly and busy. You are almost always harassed by young children trying to sell ...

... I had no understanding of the Khmer Rouge at all until after today. The Killing Fields are located on the outskirts of Phnom Penh.  A large temple, about three stories tall, had skulls of all victims of the mass genocide stacked to the top.  ...

I touched down at Phnom Penh International Airport at 1615 Cambodian Time which is GMT +7. Such a beautiful airport. Still a lot of greens around the airport with natural lotus lakes just beside the runway. Once I alighted the aircraft and came into the ...

... attempted but certainly the most unnearving. P.S. The Tomb Raiders movie starring Angelina Jolie was filmed using Angkor wat as the backdrop. Arriving in Phnom Penh later in the evening  on th 18th January we are treated to THE most AMAZING sunset ...

... pengetahuan tentang hotel, peta kota dan tempat-tempat yg akan didatangi, saya, Jens dan Thorsen sepakat untuk barengan mencari hotel di Phnom Penh.  Sampai di Phnom Penh jam 3 sore, keadaan panas dan tidak banyak gedung bertingkat. Terminal Sorya bus ...

... - absolutely stunning, many takes with infra-red. He has a web site at http://www.asiaphotos.net/. Other things we did in Phnom Penh: Loads of cafes / restaurants in the area round about our hotel - a good bit of food and drink sampled. Went to ...

... post Angkorean Buddha figures. Another notable piece was the foot steps of Lord Siva, which was used for prayers during the Angkor period. The bronze statue of Lord Vishnu in sleeping posture is another awe inspiring piece. It is probably the largest ...

... ). Whilst this may have been bit of an oversight on our behalf, we both survived unscathed and it was completely free.  Phnom Penh was otherwise a little dull, although of course we managed to see S21 (a school-turned-prison) as well as the Killing ...

Upon arriving in Phnom Penh we went straight to our hotel - the infinitely superior (compared to the last one in Phnom Penh!) Paragon Hotel. Our bags were carried up to our room for us which was fantastic; we had been debating how on earth we were going ...

... meal and a couple of beers were in order to celebrate both our arrival and all of the future experiences. Our first morning in Phnom Penh. Breakfast would be a treat. We ate at Le Croisette. Emma had fresh passion fruit muesli with yoghurt, while I opted ...

... bus station and was greeted by a hoard of tuk-tuk drivers, we got in one and went on our way to the hotel. We only had the one afternoon in Phnom Penh, and as we'd arrived later than expected there wasn't really time to eat, as we wanted to go visit the ...

... top of a 3 metre high pile of bags of rice, precariously loaded onto the back of a lorry. Back in Phnom Penh we stayed for 4 nights in the Asia Hotel, which we chose because of it's free wifi (not working) and free breakfast (not very good). Yet again ...

... the journey would take 3 hours, although initially the driver told me 1.5 hours – I knew better than this. We arrived in Phnom Penh at 6.30pm 2.5 hours after we were supposed to. And 11 hours to do a journey of 120 miles!! The Polish couple were ...

... only 35 years ago.  The cells many were kept in were tiny, conditions appalling and when the Vietnamese army liberated Phnom Penh only 7 prisoners were alive at S-21. Though the Cambodians have a cruel recent history, you'd be pushed to find ...

... at least we wouldn't care. There is a very noticeable sex or escort business as part of the Tourist Industry in Cambodia, especially Phnom Penh..  In any restaurant or bar catering to Tourists, we would always find at least one or two tables where a ...

... are, how many months and much much more! So that is what we left behind as we headed for the cosmopolitan metropolis of Phnom Penh, so we did feel just a little like country mice as we joined the sophisticated town mice at The Raffles Hotel Le ...

... nothing came of it.  Our next stop is Siem Reap, the home of the headquarters of the ancient Khmer civilization of Angkor.  Phnom Penh is huge, dusty and frankly quite overwhelming.  It would have been nice to stick around a few more days ...

... the Killing Fields, the area where the people from the detention centre were taken to be killed. This is a site a few miles out of Phnom Penh littered with mass graves, about 80 in total, some of which had been exhumed, though some that had been left as ...

... drinnen sein, wir fahren allerdings auch noch nach Thailand. Hoffentlich kein schlechtes Omen...   Transfer ins Hotel im Zentrum von Phnom Penh, sehr freundliche Leute, hilfsbereit und entgegenkommend. Aus dem Gespräch ergibt sich, was wir ...

Après les temples d'Angkor, direction la capitale Phnom Penh. Un arret sur la route dans un village connu pour ses araignés grillés! J'ai osé essayé un morceau d'une pate, a part le gout d'huile à frire je n'ai pas enti grand chose. Pour autant je ...