Golden Gate Hotel Phnom Penh

... 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 ...

... met 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 ...

... 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 single ...

... 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 ...

... The pagoda's floor is full of tiled silver that weighs some ungodly tons and in the center are two Buddhas.  One is a 90kg golden Buddha that is adorned with 2,086 diamonds (the biggest of which is 25 carat) and behind it is a pure jade Buddha.  ...