Golden Gate Hotel Phnom Penh

... once we crossed onto the Cambodian side with farming and floating villages amid the lush green landscape and random palm trees. Phnom Penh is a city of some stark contrasts.  There is quite obviously a great deal of dire poverty here which is ...

Nach einem kurzen Stopp in Bangkok ging es mit dem Flieger weiter nach Phnom Penh, die Hauptstadt von  Cambodia. Phnom Penh hat nicht sehr viel zu bieten. Es ist jedoch sehr eindruecklich aber tragisch zu erfahren was in den 70-ern hier unter Pol ...

... when he informed us it wasn't open until 2pm, so we went for lunch.  We tried Cafe Soleil near the Golden Gate Hotel, a vegetarian restaurant to Dan's dismay but we were both pleasantly surprised when the food came.  We had a vegetarian Amok - ...

... we try a hotel round the corner as it was a simmilar standard but far cheaper.  We thanked him for his advice and found the Golden Gate Hotel a few steps away.  We got a great big room for $20 with sat TV, air con and free laundry - they would ...

... taxi, we board a tuk-tuk (the most convenience transport in Cambodia) to our hotel.  I booked thru Internet, the Golden Gate Hotel, located at ...... The journey between the airport and the hotel is about 30minutes, and cost us USD6. Our first ...

... by a Hotel worker that many of us mistook for our new tour guide Toby. Soon discovered our mistake. Arrived at Golden Gate Hotel......very nice. All pleased that travelling finished for the day. At the hotel we met our 3 new travelling companions ...

Our flight from Bangkok to Phnom Penh was eventful! Bangkok airport is lovely! Nat treated Harrison to a Ben 10 watch toy thing and borrowed my passport and boarding card. Then she popped off for a fag before the flight. All it said was smoking room, ...

... was trying to get business.  We wanted to do the Killing Fields of Choeung Ek today, and as they were about 15km away from Phnom Penh (to far to walk) we decided to take him up on the offer.  The Killing Fields were very informative and it ...

... that the jam and toast option was far from worth it). Then a host of cyclos arrived for the mornings activity: a cyclo tour of Phnom Penh. Cyclos are like a reverse tricycle: two wheels at the front in-between which is a seat for a passenger, and a ...

... her what he meant and then demonstrating the proper way to walk.  When she found out that he is from San Francisco, she said "golden gate bridge. i bet you like walking on the bridge and pushing people off. Mean Tiger."  Finally it was time to go. I ...

... different to me and were unfamiliar, I still had the city feel that I knew to rely on.  But here, in the outskirts of Phnom Penh, I had nothing.  I had nothing to relate to, to comfort me.  So, just as I'd told my Dad the night before that ...

... for the day was Wat Phnom, the main Buddhist temple in Phnom Pen.  Wat Phnom sits on the only mountain (hill) in Phnom Pen, always an excellent location to build large, heavy buildings.  Sticky and sweaty we climbed the stairs to the temple, ...

... an eye on the kids and the animals at the same time. A hammock is SOP. Stop #3 Quick one. Bat points out, "the Golden Gate Bridge," a longish, narrow suspension bridge wide enough for one person and one moto side by side.  Julie makes Bat stop so we ...

... bus ride to Siem Reap. The second flight was only an hour so by the time we were up we were going back down again.   Phnom Penh was a scorcher when I arrived at about 9am (the day after I set off), got straight into a taxi and asked to be taken to ...

... a day to ourselves to discover the temples from the air and on land, we met up with the rest of the group. They just arrived from Phnom Penh. That night we had plans to go out for drinks, but the hotel advised us that if we were to make it to Angkor for ...

... I don’t, obviously. I go home, shattered from a day of temples, with another early rise for the bus to Ho Chi Minh via Phnom Penh (I know, I’ve doubled back on myself, it’s an odd route, but it was the one that fit best with my trip). ...

... I am disappointed to say; wasn't all that. The rest of the day we saw various other landmarks and Battambang's equivalent of the golden gate bridge. Battambang is tiny and after a couple of days, I had had enough and I booked my ticket to Siem ...

... which responded in force. The Rouge had neither the resources nor the manpower to win such a conflict and the near empty capital of Phnom Penh was liberated in early 1979. The bones of the dead can now be seen in a number of impersonal displays all over ...

... guesthouse. This was a bit of a blow but luckily a room was available in a guesthouse across the street. After the morning In Phnom Penh all we wanted was a shower and a good meal! The manager of our guesthouse was really helpful and there was a ...

... as the Khmer Rouge forced all of the city's residents into the countryside as part of a radical social restructuring programme. Phnom Penh's recovery has been slow, but today the City is developing rapidly. After our frenetic cycling trip we recalled the ...