Battambang Travel Blogs

I could've eaten a duck embryo and well, I did! Yes, this time around I didn't chicken out. So I hopped on a bus to Battambang, a sleepy town closer to the Thai border. I was looking forward to putting war behind me and also meeting up with Alex, a friend I traveled with in Laos. She was coming in…

Our driver, Mr. Wat, picked us up at our hotel at the crack of dawn. As promised he had brought our boat tickets.  He took us down to the river docks and helped us find the right boat among the 8 to 10 loading passengers. We paid Mr. Wat but he stayed on the shore waving unil we pulled away. W…

Myself and Ben (guy from NZ) hired  two scooters and a driver to get us out of Battambang to see some of the sites. The journey turned out to be great as we sped along bumpy dirt roads through villages with children waving and shouting "heeello". The children in these villages unlike elsewhere…

Seen as we can't get planes or buses right, we thought we would take the scenic route up the river from Battambang to Siem Reap. It's the hot and dry season in Cambodia so the water levels are low. This means that the only boats that can use the river are the slower diesel-powered ones, one that wo…

People i met here, who contributed to and improved my trip: Juliana (Russia) We arrived into a rainy Battambang on the back of a hellish 10 hour bus ride. We had landed the tickets on the back seat of the bus and rather than sharing with 3 other people, we discovered the 5 seats would be split bet…

Battambang was nearly as horrendous as Poi Pet. But, everything was better when we hired two moto drivers. For $7 each, they showed us the sights of Battambang - mountain caves where the Khmer Rouge murdered hundreds of Khmers and abandoned their bones in a pit, an abandoned temple, a te…

Today we went with the World Vision staff to go and visit our sponsor child Sao. It was a 2 hour ride out there in their truck. It is a very isolated area with one bumpy little red, dusty road and it's one of the most heavily mined areas of the country. For safety World Vision no longer lets peop…

Awoken at 5.30am by my requested alarm call. Hopped on the bus with a Dutch girl also taking the boat journey from Siem Reap to Battambang. The bus found its way down the city's bumpy roads picking up those heading for the pier. The boat left at 7.00am but we seemed to have time to stop for a break…

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We took the boat to Battambang which took 8 hours, the journey was quite scenic although we did have to duck for cover when going through some of the narrow channels to avoid the branches covered in thorns attacking us! We stayed at the Chhaya Hotel which was centrally located and cheap.  The…

The nice woman selling the boattrip from Riepers to Battamburg told me that the trip was about 8 hrs and that I would arrive in the early afternoon. This gave me some time to explore Battamburg a bit and maybe have a famed cooking class at one of the local restaurants. The boat itself was a regul…

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My two trips to Cambodia, absolutely brilliant!

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We have now done a week at our Volunteering placement in Battambang. PPS is a circus/arts/music school that also provides standard education for the young people in the areas surrounding Battambang. It provides an amazing opportunity for disadvantaged youths, by training in the circus they get to t…