Raffles Phnom Penh

... , then to Sydney and Melbourne in Australia, then off to Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore. After a Singapore Sling at the Raffles it is off to Stockholm, Sweden. I plan to bum around northern Europe for a little while and then catch my ...

... are, how many months and much much more! So that is what we left behind as we headed for the cosmopolitan metropolis of Phnom Penh, so we did feel just a little like country mice as we joined the sophisticated town mice at The Raffles Hotel Le ...

... 2.5 cents.  You would be carrying backpacks of notes if you set out for a Cambodian experience with local currency.     Phnom Penh is at the confluence of 3 rivers; the Mekong, Tonle Sap and Bassac. Warren has been in PP for over 4 ...

... it was a true outlaw destination.  An excellent book about this city is seedy recent past is "Off the Rails in Phnom Penh".   Our main activities were visiting S-21, the Killing Fields and the Russian Market.  S-21 is also ...

... he left to a masters program at Princeton, he just happened to be interning this summer in the Phnom Penh embassy.  So on Thursday after a swim at Raffles I managed to contact him and schedule a dinner.  It was nice catching up with a fellow ...

... lukewarm to indifferent. In the morning we got up early to get our last free breakfast at the guest house before jumping on a bus back to Phnom Penh, as it is close to the border with Vietnam. Our plan was to get a guest house in the funky part of town by ...

... we were saved from this madness as we had a friend staying in Phnom Penh who we were able to crash with. Out time in Phnom Penh was quite leisurely, and it was lovely to have some home comforts around us again! Thank you Tom :-) We explored the ...

... 'the hotel managment won't come to your rescue if you are a peadophile'. Fair enough. The first day of Phnom Penh sightseeing was a real eye opener and another fascinating insight into the irony of the country. Our guide ...

... . De petits temples khmeres surgissent ca et la. Les zebus et vaches bossues ont remplacé les buffles. Les cocotiers sont omnipresents. A Phnom Penh je retrouve Nico, Nath et sa soeur marine. Nous dormons au bord d'un lac dans le quartiers des putes ...

... 'roport ! Il est vraiment impressionnant de modernité à tel point qu'on ne se méfie pas... Erreur ! A l'arrivée à l'aéroport de Phnom Penh, j'ai vite constaté que mon sac à dos avait été complètement vidé puis rempli de nouveau. En arrivant à ...

... for me, diet coke for leif) and a 4-cheese pizza as an appetizer. now we're here at the net cafe and will be going to raffles le royal for a drink and dinner, if we have the energy! catch you all later! more fun experiences to come! and I think the ...

... . Everything is so unbeleivably cheap here, we're living well for $20 a day. Apart from yesterday, we went for a swim at the Raffles Hotel Royal, it cost us $75  for a swim and lunch (most meals here cost $3), can you believe that, I was ...

... nearly 35 years ago, we will ever learn from the past. The rest of my days --I chilled by the pool, I had a drinks at the Raffles, took a boat road on the river with an English couple and spent the evenings at the Blue Chili. I would of stayed longer but ...

This evening we decided to do something fun so we found a bowling alley in Phnom Penh, which was really good fun as we had the whole place to ourselves. Me and Jenny paired up we played very badly for the first game but after a few beers we played very ...

... up holes and further reducing clothes' sizes (again). Not bad for a capital city. And the cocktails in the Raffles Phnom Penh are excellent. Even morning visits to the indescribable horrors inflicted by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge fail to diminish the ...