Phnom Penh Travel Blogs

Update: Yay! Staples fixed my memory card, I finally got Youtube working, so the video of me shooting the AK47 is now up! ******** Everyone in Cambodia thinks I'm Japanese. Nay, are convinced I'm Japanese. I'll walk down the street and they'll be all "Konichiwa!" to which I smile and respond "No,…

Oh good bejeebles loord I almost died (again) today! Jear and I were almost burnt alive! Oh good bejeebles... it was a bit crazy!As we were making our way back to our last stop in our very well planned and researched city tour, our tuk-tuk just suddenly burst into flames after super mega overheatin…

  With two hours to wait before my bus to Sihanoukville, I walked over to Wat Phnom to look for the monk who had tied a red cloth bracelet onto my right wrist for good wishes last January.[See 'Going East' of my 'SE Asia for the Winter' blog]  The monk's blessing seemed confusing a…

  I considered the two-day boat trip from Ho Chi Minh City back to Phnom Penh like I took last year. That was a memorable journey which alternated between a variety of small river boats and busses through the Mekong Delta. The $22 fare included all transportation, an overnight hotel room, and…

  It was difficult to find a place for an early morning western breakfast. Heat and humidity began to build long before the morning traffic. Heavy trucks hauling topsoil to a construction site, tuk tuks, and cars all began to stir as riverside eateries finally began to open at 7:00. A motorbi…

We thought you'd enjoy some things we've experienced along the way that have made us look differently about how we've grown up, or simply made us say ''Huh?" In Thailand, soda's aren't worth a whole lot.  As a matter of fact, the soda in a glass bottle is worth less than the glass bottle itse…

During one of the days I was in Phnom Penh, I headed out to Stueng Meanchey on the outskirts of town. I've already seen many pictures of the conditions of the people living there, but I just needed to witness it for myself.As I arrived, the stench of rotting food and decaying rubbish in general…

Hot and sweaty are not adjectives I use often to describe myself but are as fitting as any on this morning. With the gentle fan not quite blowing away all my perspiration, a warm equally sweaty body pressed up against mine, and a mosquito net staring at me elegantly six feet above; I am entranced. …

Wanting to get out of Phnom Penh, I got up early, sipped coffee downstairs, and went to the nearby bus ticketing office.  Unfortunately, it was still closed so I had to get on a motorbike to go to the other bus ticketing office.  When I got there, I wasn’t pleased with their schedule…

S-21The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum was the first place we visited. The site used to be a high school and it was turned into a secret prison during Pol Pot's regime and referred to as "S-21". Many parts of the site have been left more or less the way they were in the 1970s. The somber atmosphere wil…

So I've made it, the main destenation of my four month trip across South East Asia. I came here with Projects Abroad to work on an orphange. The orphanage I ended up getting placed at is one for mentally and physically handicapped kids. It's going to be very intense, indeed. I start Tuesday, Monday…

[Warning : some people may find some of the images reproduced in this entry of a distressing nature, and I apologise for any discomfort caused by their inclusion.  You have the choice not to view them. ] ‘Pol Pot, withdrawn traces. Bye Bye.’ - Revol (Manic Street Preachers, 1994) It…

I had breakfast at the rooftop restaurant of the guesthouse overlooking the nearby lake and then went for a walk to the Central Market. The distance was actually longer than I thought. On the way I had to fight off all the tuc-tuc and motorbike drivers that didn't understand that I just wanted to t…

We're back and it feels like we've never been away, Adventure Rat, the amazing haggling one, managed to knock our room rate down again at the lakeside guesthouse we were at before ......and we've got a nicer room, HONK HONK SUPER SAVER ADVENTURE RAT POOP POOP!!!!! So as I said in the previous blog…

DAY 1 Some cunt rang our room at 5 am for a wake up call which we didn’t ask for or need, dicks. When I went downstairs and said about it I asked for an apology for the fuck up but as always the are incapable of admitting they were wrong. Idiots! The day before we had witnessed the hotel owner …