Pacific Hotel Phnom Penh

... making an almighty bang. We made it to Phnom Penh alive and after a quick tuk-tuk ride arrived at the Pacific Hotel  (recommended). Good room - bath, 2 beds, and a cool looking pillar for 10 pounds each a night. After hearing ...

After saying goodbye to some of our tour group the remaining 5 of us plus our tour leader set off for the drive to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. I loved the drive. It was long, but I spent the time gazing out of the window, watching the world go ...

... just about to leave for the airport now. Yesterday we spent the day shopping and hanging around the place - really easy to do in Phnom Penh there are so many cafes and nice places for food. We had a really nice dinner at a Khmer restaurant down by the ...

... few hotels in Phnom Penh so after we got off the bus we walked aroud to try and find a nice one. Ended up in the Pacific hotel, was close to the riverside (where all the nightlife is apparently). Headed out for dinner that night, ended up in Bojangles - ...

... the final night of the festival there was a mass stampede on a bridge...  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11814894 I’m just glad I’d got the bus earlier that day as it was apparently the biggest single loss of life since the ...

... and are placed one on top of the other. You do not get the chance to stand back and admire any of them. However here in Phnom Penh there was space, and a grace about the whole place. We were unable to view the Throne Hall as the Prime Minister was due at ...

... ; These last 14 victims who could not be identified were buried in the school yard. Before the Khmer Rouge took the city of Phnom Penh, many city dwellers fled to the mountain to escape.  Those who didn’t became slaves and were forced to work ...

... insects (cockroaches I think), I took a picture but declined her offer of a free sample (I was scared, they were BIG). Our hotel in Phnom Penh is really nice. There is a hairdryer! I look normal again! Last night we went down to the riverfront area ...

It's so cliche to say this, but there's so much to do and so little time to do it all. The flight from Taipei to Phnom Penh was a lot more cramped, but we got to the airport and went through security successfully. There was a stark contrast in temperature ...

... SE Asia is not the easy picking grounds that it once was for pedophiles. There is an excellent selection of food in Phnom Penh, particularly some good Thai food. There's danger in sitting at the tables on the sidewalk however, as you are continually ...

... the coast towards Vietnam. Nobody had much information about the train service. We knew that the trains left Sihanoukville for Phnom Penh at 6:20am each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, but beyond that we knew very little. Ticket agents and guesthouse ...

As we boarded our bus from Siem Reap to Phnom Phen, I noticed vendors selling purified water, fruit and snacks. I thought I would get some kind of snack for the ride. As I looked at the offerings, I realized the woman had a big plate of fried ...

On the road again, we travelled by bus to Phnom Penn, Cambodia. The land is very flat and fertile here and with the weather the farmers can get off 3 crops of rice so we saw lots of rice.  Where there wasn't rice though the land looked very dry and ...

Today we were up early and travelled across the border to Cambodia. We said goodbye to the land of motorbikes and travelled by public bus (nicest public bus ever – probably equal to the greyhound...ok maybe the greyhound is a bit nicer, but the ...

Cambodia so far has been hectic. We arrived to the heaviest rain ever which thankfully eased up to allow us to go on a cyclo tour of the city. This is pretty much just a wheelchair type thing with your cyclist behind you, pedalling away. It's definitely ...

... bussed to Battambang (4hrs) then to Bangkok (8hrs), we think we made a great choice. The roads are ordinary with the 320km trip from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap taking 7 hrs! Phalkun says that the roads are not bumpy, it's the people and the bus! Anyway here ...

... accompanied by rice (or occasionally noodles). In addition to Khmer food, there are large number of Chinese restaurants - especially in Phnom Penh and large provincial centers.   The two 'national' Cambodian beers are Anchor (good) and Angkor ...

A brief pause along the way was pretty much our only intent as we set off by bus on a Thursday from Battambang for Phnom Penh. We thought it would be less tiring to break the journey and not have to spend the weekend in polluted Phnom Penh prior to our ...

Chiang Mai Made it from Phnom Penh to Bangkok to Chiang Mai - arriving about 3pm. Taxi to Roong Ruang Hotel where we had stayed before. Airport "taxi meter" is a rip-off - 122 baht for what should be ~60 baht. Best to walk out to airport entrance and ...