Phnom Penh Travel Blogs - Page 3

We said good bye to Saigon early in the morning and headed to the Mai Linh terminal to catch a bus to Phnom Penh. This started our dragging 7 hour journey to Phnom Penh. On the way, we saw a lot of farm lands - pretty much like in the provinces of the Philippines. Maybe, having been brought up in t…

I woke up early to picked up by a transfer van of Mekong Express, the bus company where i purchased my ticket the day earlier, and five minutes after, we were bound for Phnom Penh. It was my 29th birthday, and i would have wanted to spend it more productively, or should at least memorably so I thou…

we arrived at phnom penh at around 3pm from our 7hour road trip from ho chi minh to phnom penh. we took the Mai Linh bus for 200,000VND which includes a free bottle of water for the entire bus ride. the 7 hour was quite a relief for me as i just slept thru the entire trip. i remember just waking up…

$2 room in Phnom Penh: for US$2 a night in Phnom Penh we got a quirky little room. The door was made of glass, which you lock with a giant padlock (it was about as big as Als hand). I you want to lock the room from the inside, you have to use the padlock and lock yourself in from the ins…

After a leisurly breakfast we found a tuk-tuk man and agreed a price for a day at the markets.  About 5 minutes into our journey as we were travelling down the road along the riverside a motorbike came alongside the tuk-tuk and whisked Nicola's bag away.  The speed at which it happened wa…

As anyone who has travelled around Camdia probably knows, if a person wants to go from Siem Reap back into Thailand they come across what the Lonely Planet describes as "The Boulevard Of Broken Backsides". The road from Siem Reap to the border is supposed to be horrific, and i even heard that from …

People i met here, who contributed to and improved my trip: Juliana (Russia) Last time i was in Phnom Penh was a whistle stop tour, but this time i decided to spend a little longer and booked a guesthouse by the peaceful, if not touristy, Boeng Kak Lake. Our first day was predominantly taken up or…

Most of my two weeks in Cambodia were spent working in Phnom Penh, The capitol of Cambodia. Even though the city was pretty dirty and third world, I was in heaven. The people were nice(almost painfully nice). I stayed at the Hotel Cambodiana, which was a very nice hotel right on the river front. Th…

Tuol Sleng (S-21) - I have other photos, photos of photos, but I don't think they are 'family-friendly'. Tortured people, skulls & bones, mostly-dead people lying on stretchers...... Could be more horrific, but I'm not sure if this website would feel they are appropriate viewing. I don't know. …

It only took forty minutes to fly from Siem Reap to the Cambodian capital. The landing was smooth and were soon out of the airport, driving through the hustle and bustle of downtown Phnom Penh. Outside was hot and dusty, the streets clogged with motorcycles and pedestrians. Compared to Siem Reap, t…

WARNING : This is STRICTLY a personal opinion. Cambodians (those I came across anyways) are very laid back, they're just calm, too cool in fact. There's a saying in Malay which translated would say, "Calm water doesn't mean there's no crocodile". Hhmmmmm..... But I'm glad to say I've met pleasant…

Dark tourism is a strange thing. Going to places associated with death and mass destruction seems to carry a morbid fascination with it, and it is made even worse when sites such as the killing fields, where we went today, have a souvenir shop at the entrance! I can just imagine the conversation. W…

Before I get to Phonm Penh, we stopped at a small little town called Chau Doc. This is basically just a transit town for those crossing into Cambodia. However it was actually a lot of fun. We hired some motorbike drivers who took us into the nearby Mountain to watch sunset. On the way we got a real…

9/26/06 This morning before catching the six hour bus to Phnom Penh, we went to a very slow Internet cafe to check email and find a place to stay. I launched Yahoo Messenger and the next thing you know, I have three conversations going with Dave, Harjot and John - technology can be so cool. The tw…

Arriving in the capital city of Cambodia without preparation came as a bit of a shock, but one I think we dealt with pretty well. After finding some pretty decent accommodation on the lake front, we spent our first day getting our bearings in a city that could match Bangkok for heat, commotio…