Phnom Penh Travel Blogs

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#1 of 191 Phnom Penh travel blogs
My Most Awesome Day... Until My Memory Card Died
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Dec 24, 2007 – Jan 06, 2008
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,…
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This trip was featured on Sunday January 20th, 2008
#2 of 191 Phnom Penh travel blogs
Burrrning Tuk-tuk
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May 28, 2008 – Aug 16, 2008
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…
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This trip was featured on Saturday May 31st, 2008
#3 of 191 Phnom Penh travel blogs
West Meets East
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Oct 15, 2008 – Mar 10, 2009
  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…
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This trip was featured on Saturday November 29th, 2008
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#4 of 191 Phnom Penh travel blogs
Phnom Penh
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Oct 25, 2007 – Apr 15, 2008
  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…
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This trip was featured on Monday March 31st, 2008
#5 of 191 Phnom Penh travel blogs
Spiders, Rain, and Round the World
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Aug 22, 2009 – Oct 27, 2009
  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…
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This trip was featured on Sunday October 4th, 2009
#6 of 191 Phnom Penh travel blogs
Cambodia
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Apr 13, 2006 – Feb 04, 2007
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…
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#7 of 191 Phnom Penh travel blogs
Not so Great Suvannaphum Airport & Arrival in Phnom Penh
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Oct 16, 2006 – Feb 10, 2007
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…
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This trip was featured on Monday July 30th, 2007
#8 of 191 Phnom Penh travel blogs
Getting around advice
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Nov 18, 2008 – Nov 23, 2008
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. …
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This trip was featured on Friday November 28th, 2008
#9 of 191 Phnom Penh travel blogs
Ang Pucha sa Cam Pu Chia -- Badluck starts @ $5
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Jun 23, 2008 – Jul 06, 2008
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…
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#10 of 191 Phnom Penh travel blogs
On to Phnom Penh
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Feb 27, 2008 – Apr 01, 2008
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…
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This trip was featured on Thursday April 10th, 2008
#11 of 191 Phnom Penh travel blogs
My Gap Year: Phnom Penh Travel Photos
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Aug 30, 2008 – Mar 28, 2009
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…
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#12 of 191 Phnom Penh travel blogs
Phnom Penh : Ghosts
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Aug 24, 2008 – Oct 27, 2009
[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…
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This trip was featured on Friday September 19th, 2008
#13 of 191 Phnom Penh travel blogs
13 hour busride to Phnom Penh
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Feb 03, 2009 – Mar 12, 2009
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…
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This trip was featured on Monday February 9th, 2009
#14 of 191 Phnom Penh travel blogs
what can you say..lets just hope nothing like this ever happens again
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Sep 10, 2008 – May 21, 2009
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…
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This trip was featured on Wednesday February 4th, 2009
#15 of 191 Phnom Penh travel blogs
Killing fields and the smartest kids ever!
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Jan 09, 2009 – Oct 11, 2009
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 …
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This trip was featured on Saturday June 13th, 2009
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