Phnom Penh Guesthouse

... all and leave for the airport to fly out ! . Kathmandu is full, but Phom Penh wide open both ways ! ..... so, Phnom Penh here I come !!! ..... The flight to the Cambodian capital is about 50 minutes and the flight, as always with Thai Airways, ...

... to King Hotel ok.  Immediately had a large Angkor Beer and was not extremely pleased with the room, as the Phnom Penh guesthouse has extolled the virtues of this 'new guesthouse' the family built in SR.  Building, painting and decorating ...

... ; The rooms were the same price as #10 guesthouse ($6), but quite a bit bigger, cleaner and more private. After returning to Phnom Penh, we picked up right where we left off and walked down to Sunshine Bakery for some coconut cake.  The Cake ...

Blog Writer: Jen We found a cheap and nice guesthouse in Phnom Penh called Hometown Hotel and sat down to decide our next plan of action. Ben had told us that he would either be staying in Kep until Sunday or Monday (we arrived in Phnom Penh on Saturday). ...

...   people saw it as a divine sign, and a signal that the capital should be moved here instead. Hence a few centuries later, 'Phnom Penh'. Fancy that. Then it was time to kick back and try to cheer ourselves up a bit after a depressing morning. Heng ...

... to attract an older crowd.  We also visited the "crème puff" better known as the Central Market in downtown Phnom Penh.  The market was very crowded and was encircled with food stalls and tuk tuk drivers hocking their services.  The ...

... (I reckon its better, coz the overeager ones are normally linked to a guesthouse and they'll try to bring you to THAT guesthouse). Phnom Penh is one of the most boring places in Cambodia. Basically nothing much to do... nothing much to see (that you ...

... from hell so I settle down with my iPod and the time flies. We stopped off briefly for some food and then arrived in Phnom Penh at a bus station full of Tuk Tuk drivers who, as we approached all raced to the entrance and jostled for position to collect ...

... Backstreet Boys.... yes it was a funny sight to see one well worth a look in. The next morning we decide on a walking tour of Phnom Penh. As soon as we leave Okay the tuk tuk drivers pounce! Tuk TOOOK sir tooook TOOOK! This became the sound of the morning ...

And then there were three....... We caught the bus back to Phnom Penh where we meet Kent at his guesthouse, which was Rory's Irish pub (no surprises there!). We went out for dinner and beer Angkor down the riverfront and spent the night catching up ...

... peace has settled on Cambodia. After that I needed to get my mind onto something else so I went to the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh - a little like the Grand Palace in Bangkok but on a smaller, less ornate scale. I am spending an extra day than planned in ...

Daar ging de wekker: 5 uur 's morgens! Op naar het busstation voor de trip Battambang - Phnom Penh! Terwijl we daar even op de bus aan het wachten waren zagen we een kindje met een rokje, toen het rokje omhoog waaide zagen we dat het een jongetje was. En ...

... not the autobahn. Sometimes bus was really slow. Anyhow arrived to Phnom Penh on time, got a room in guesthouse and walked a little bit around. Phnom Penh not my favorite place. traffic compare to Vietnam is very chaotic. In Vietnam somehow it works ...

... What? Bar so when we stopped for lunch I got chatting to them and we decided to hunt down somewhere to stay in Phnom Penh together.  Not much hunting required though as the coach dropped us off at an office that was immediately surrounded by tuktuk ...

On the Friday we packed our bags to catch the bus to the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh. The bus was scheduled to leave just after lunch, so we had time to slurp a quick bowl of Vietnamese pho before boarding. It was absolutely delicious - this bodes very ...

... to arrive at Phnom Penh at 13:30 or something, but we didn't arrive until 16:00.  It was nice way to travel to Phnom Penh rather than going through dirty road, but it was nothing like 'spectacular' and it was so hot on a boat without air-con.   ...

... was extremely hard to swallow. My fears were well met, too: in my eyes (not Jessie's, however - she's more accepting), Phnom Penh was certainly less: dirty, dark - harsh fluorescent lights shedding some illumination at odd intervals - and teeming with ...

... arrived I found a tuk tuk and headed for my guesthouse which is situated on 298st near the grand palace. The streets here in Phnom Penh are all numbered similarly to the way they are done so in Manhattan. It makes orientation fairly easy. For the next ...

This entry is intended for those looking to get a visa to Vietnam--we will write about sightseeing in Phnom Penh in our next entry. Surprisingly, there is very little information about getting your Vietnamese visa in Phnom Penh, so we wrote this ...

... a lot smaller race of people than the average westerner, who knows. The bus was washed at one stop just before we reached Phnom Penh. There is a three day water festival going on at the moment so the streets were blocked meaning I was dropped well out ...