Juliana Phnom Penh

... . We had booked to stay for four nights which was enough time to visit the main sites including the infamous Killing Fields. Phnom Penh is situated on the banks of the Mekong River, and has been the national capital since the French colonized in 1870. The ...

... It is chaotic but also quite vibrant but a little bit seedy in parts, especially after dark. In our talk with other travellers it seems that Phnom Penh is much nicer now than it was a few years ago so maybe in a few more years it will be better. On our ...

We have spent three days in Phnom Penh. Not the nicest of cities, dirty, polluted and difficult to walk down the street without very desperate locals trying to sell you something. It's not a comfortable place, it feels desperate, poor and aesthetically ...

... get a cold drink. The amount of flies in the place was enough to turn us off eating anyway. As we got off the bus in Phnom Penh a few hours later there was a barricade holding back the tuk tuk drivers which is just as well as there were many of them ...

Our boat trip from Can Tho to Phnom Penh was surprising comfortable and easy. The boat was essentially like a bus, with rows of seats.  We had two border crossings to get through – one exiting Vietnam, then 100m up the river, one to enter ...

 Today, we booked a tour to the Phnom Tamao Wildlife Refuge Centre.    This is a very large park 40km out of Phnom Penh.  We rode in the back of an ex-military jeep along some pretty bumpy and dusty roads to get there!  They ...

Due to lack of Internet complications in the last couple of days as we switched over to a new hotel, the Juliana in PP, I am making this update two days past the last entry. I have also recovered from jet lag, although we have been going to sleep around ...

Hi again, We've successfully managed to move on from Bangkok and yes France we got some sunglasses that looked roughly like what you wanted. Not sure when we'll get the next chance to give them over. I don't think I'll risk posting them.. Things have ...

... thing, before ending up at the Ben Thanh night market, where we had a great dinner amongst all the locals. Monday, caught the bus to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, at 8 am. Traffic was horrendous and it took an hour just to get to the edge of the city, but it was ...

... nbsp;          It’s time to experience the hustle and bustle of the capital city, Phnom Penh! Siem Reap was extremely good to us and is definitely very high up there on our list of favourite places. ...