Phnom Penh Guest Houses

... me where Lorena and Flor live. It took a long time, it's kinda hiden, by a little lake in an area of Phnom Penh filled with guest houses and houseboats, pretty nice and cheap. I arrived and went to the terrace, overlooking the lake and the moon and stars ...

... Cambodian government to fill it and build houses on it. Kicking out all the people that live around the edge, fish and all the houses and guest houses on the lake side which have a year left at best. Our room is "relatively clean" by a dogs standard, ...

... to Happy Guest House and had milkshakes. They were happy too. That was about all the happiness Jon and I would experience in Phnom Penh. The rest was a mixture of reflection, sorrow, and solemnity. Sorry for the downer. We started early in the morning ...

... fun! We also visited a couple of temples Wat Phnom and Wat Ounalom and had lunch at Boeng Kak lake. Our overwhelming impressions of Phnom Penh is the traffic - it is utter chaos! We have only seen about 3 sets of traffic lights, so most of the major ...

...   (this time a luxury double decker, with a loo and only a little karaoke), we jumped into a tuk-tuk and toured several guest houses until we found a good one.   After seeing quite a few expensive -  and "iffy" looking places, we ...

... that much money here to put in the pass machines!!! SO off we went and thought that we would risk our lives walking the streets of Phnom Penh in burning heat to try and find a internet place no 1 with cd rom and no 2 with a burner which actually proved ...

... Tonle Sap river while strolling along a tasteful walkway for several kilometres. It's a really beautiful public space surrounded by guest houses and restaurants overlooking the water from the street area. Not at all what I was expecting, especially when ...

... dinner, we'd arranged to meet a friend of Ad's, Josh, from Ardingly who he hadn't seen in about 6 years. Josh had moved to Phnom Penh for about 6 months to find work and because he likes it here so much! We went to Friends which is a tapas restaurant ...

... countryside the day before leaving Battambang), we were happy to have a straightforward 5 and a half hour bus ride on a good road to Phnom Penh! Its a big and busy city located where the Tonle Sap and Mekong rivers meet. It seems to have quite a bit of ...

... to negotiate while carrying two heavy backpacks around.  We had heard that the Boeng Kak (lake) area had lots of cheap backpacker guest houses and it proved true.  We were let off on the main alleyway lining the lake and it was jammed full of ...

... myself I wasn't too ripped off because he was taking me elsewhere as well. Lonely Planet Guide warned that tuk-tuk drivers in Phnom Penh don't speak English well, and will answer "No problem" to anywhere a tourist wants to go, even if the driver has no ...

On April 10 I started the first leg of a wonderful trip:"Mekong Delta Trip Ending in Phnom Penh (2 days, one night, Cai Be - Vinh Long - Long Zuyen - Chau Doc - Phom Penh (Cambodia)**".  Bus left at  8 :15 a.m with 4 different types of ...

... to go together! Ha ha! We got a bus up to Phnom Penh - aircon was SHIT so was dying the whole way! Got a guest near the 'Lakeside' area of Phnom Penh (going to refer to it as PP now as cant be bothered to keep writng name) - did you know the lakeside ...

... sky awaited our arrival and it really is serene looking out over the lake at sunset. We stayed in one of the main three guest houses. really chillled out place but the room was quite depressing. Just a box with a bed and mosquito's were rampant. The ...

I have been psyching myself up for Phnom Penh. Stories I've heard from other travellers suggest the level of seediness and hassle is going to make central Sihanoukville look like a walk in the park.  So I’m kinda surprised at the lack of these ...

... , they pass even though there is oncoming traffic. It's scary to watch, but again it all works. The drive to Phnom Penh took over 3 hours. The countryside was beautiful ..... saw numerous rice fields, raised shanty houses, cattle walking on or alongside ...

... from.  It was built to house four Buddha statues found by a women call Penh.  Which gave Phnom Penh it's name "Hill of Penh".  It houses what look like a female Buddha.    In the park at the base of the Wat ...

... . The deck out the back literally is built out onto the lake. To my right and left side are several other budget guest houses doing the same thing. There are plants everywhere, hammocks, lounges, a few nomadic travelers who forgot where home was and ...

... able as a tourist to mix more with the everyday life of the locals. Not having been there, I believe Phnom Penh resembles a lot Havana with run-down buildings from previous glory days. Despite being exhausted from the ...