 | Another day, another temple!!
2009-10-10, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: leed1983 | | Appologies for taking so long to fill in my Journal but its been rather difficult to get a decent connection!
Okay so after finally dragging ourselves away from Phnom Penh we headed up North to Siem ... |
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 | Last day in Cambodia
2009-10-10, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: mynewlife | | Yes, its my last day here and I am happy. I have achieved everything I wanted to do in this place including Angkor Wat and more. Today I visited the biggest lake in Asia , Siem Lake it was great. We t... |
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| Home away from home
2009-10-05, Phnom Pen, Cambodia. By: leed1983 | | We have been here in Cambodia for 4 days now, though it seems longer as we feel very settled here. Five days ago we were in Chaotic Bangkok and now we are sittling next to a lake in a charming bambo a... |
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| Angkor Wat and rainy days in Cambodia
2009-10-09, Angkor Wat, Cambodia. By: mynewlife | | Visiting Angkor Wat was incredible, I was lucky enough to have a good driver, Tuk-tuk or a motorcycle carrying a carriage. Why carriage ?
Angkor Wat is only one of the temples that carry on for mil... |
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| The journey into Cambodia
2009-10-07, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: mynewlife | | It was a long bus journey from HoChiMinh into SiemReap, Cambodia but somehow with all the intricacies of the road, landscape, happenins and people the 12 hour journey became short.
We first stopped... |
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 | Unforgettable Taste
2009-10-05, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: ericeali1 | | Food, glorious food...The way to anyone's heart is through his stomach....and so many other clichés that all centre around one of life's necessities - eating. Without exception we aim to ensnare you i... |
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| Unforgettable Taste
2009-10-05, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: ericeali1 | | Food, glorious food...The way to anyone's heart is through his stomach....and so many other clichés that all centre around one of life's necessities - eating. Without exception we aim to ensnare you i... |
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 | Sihanook Ville
2009-07-08, Siahnook Ville, Cambodia. By: yogibeari | | Sihanook Ville:
Sihanouk Ville (SV, pronounced seanookville) is located in the southern tip of Cambodia. It was named after the king who was overthrown in 1970. After his demise, the town was renamed... |
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 | Siem Reap - Angkor Wat
2009-07-06, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: yogibeari | | Siem Reap and Angkor:
The town of Siem Reap (SR), the provincial capital serves as base city for visitors to Angkor. SR is surrounded by hundreds of ancient temples and monuments. It is therefore an... |
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| Phnom Penh
2009-07-02, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: yogibeari | | Four months after my return from Asia and little did I know I could travel again this soon. This time I went to Cambodia and Vietnam. This trip is not as long as the last one. Nonetheless, it gives me... |
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 | ca ca cambodia!
2009-07-13, Cambodia, Cambodia. By: seasia09 | | We are leaving Cambodia right now. Cambodia has been crazy. We were here for almost a month. So much has happened. We stayed at this house with no running water and beds without mattresses. We experie... |
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 | cambodia is kicking my butt.
2009-07-06, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: kimgolden | | Greetings from Cambodia!
It's been a while, eh? Almost 2 months. But here were go.
We arrived here nearly two weeks ago from Taiwan, spending 4 days in the capital city of Phnom Penh, having ori... |
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 | And suddenly it had been six weeks...
2009-07-01, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: zoejess | | On Friday we finished our teaching placement at CCOLT and we are still not quite sure where the time went. The last week was a whirlwind of final "past simple" tests, emergency market visits and more ... |
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 | Bumpy Birthday Madness!
2009-06-21, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: aimee | | Siem Reap! The town of John's birthday, and what a place to have a birthday with nice guest houses, all the western food we can eat and all the alcohol promotions we can drink! The day started with ca... |
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| Choo. Choo. Bam. Boo
2009-06-21, Battambang, Cambodia. By: aimee | | Battambang is the second largest town in Cambodia but it's not as touristed as Phnom Penh or Siem Reap because there's not much draw other than a couple of temples and the Bamboo Railway. We didn't vi... |
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| Gone Fishing!
2009-06-21, Sihanoukville, Cambodia. By: aimee | | As the title suggests, we enjoyed (well, John did at least) the joys of sea fishing. We went on a boat trip to two near by islands for the day, which was a very nice experience - fancy boat, free food... |
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 | I told the witch doctor...
2009-06-07, Ban lung, Cambodia. By: aimee | | Banlung is a sleepy dirt road town in the north east of Cambodia and the main area to go trekking into the national park. We met a danish guy here and decided that the three of us should go trekking t... |
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| Home of the dolphins
2009-06-07, Krati, Cambodia. By: aimee | | Krati is a small peaceful town on the Mekong river and the main tourist draw is the rare Irrawaddy dolphins, there are less than 100 left in the world (mainly in the Mekong river) and there are about ... |
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 | A quick update two weeks in...
2009-06-01, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: zoejess | | We have been teaching at CCOLT for two weeks now and are definitely settled in (especially now that Zoe has finally mastered the names of the five children in her class!). We managed to sort it so tha... |
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| Seeing Hands and Sunshine
2009-05-31, Sihanoukville, Cambodia. By: zoejess | | This weekend we decided to get away from the city and headed to Sihanoukville for a bit of R+R. The town is really chilled out and we spent time strolling along the beach, having "Seeing Hands" massag... |
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| Where the streets have no name
2009-05-31, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: aimee | | After a pleasant boat journey, a very smooth border crossing (especially compared to the last one) and a squashed mini bus ride we arrived in Phnom Penh, the city where the streets have no names. Exce... |
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| First day on the project
2009-05-18, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: zoejess | | We have now been in Cambodia for four days and spent two days with our project group. We met them yesterday for orientation, which basically involved being told not to do any of the things we had done... |
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 | Angkor What? Angkor Wat!
2009-01-23, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: aenglish84 | | We arrived in Siem Reap on Jan 23rd after a 6 6 hour bus ride. On the bus we met a girl who was in the Peace Corp and had a weekend off so she was traveling around. The conversation was very insightfu... |
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| Cambodia here we come!!
2009-01-21, Phnom Pen, Cambodia. By: aenglish84 | | After 10 hours from Saigon we arrived in the captial of Cambodia. We had to meet Christine at some guest house, but really had no way of knowing where to go. Luckily we found a Tuck Tuk (a motocycle ... |
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 | Siem Reap to Sihanoukville
2009-01-26, Sihanoukville, Cambodia. By: saffa2 | | With the darkest side of Cambodian history unfolding within the realm of their Capital, the sights we visited in and around Phnom Penh truly moved us to the core.
We arrived by bus after a mere fou... |
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 | Poipet to Siem Reap
2009-01-20, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: saffa2 | | On the 16th of January we kick started Cambodia with a trip to Siem Reap, our first sleepover since crossing the Thai/Cambodia border at Poipet.
With the Temples of Angkor being the heartbeat of Siem... |
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 | Battambang
2008-11-14, Battambang, Cambodia. By: rossnkaren | | We arrived in Battambang by boat. A largely overcrowded boat that listed worryingly to the right, a problem that was exacerbated by all the bags being on that side, the people on the top deck seeming... |
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 | Siem Reap
2008-11-09, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: rossnkaren | | Unfortunately on the way to Siem Reap, our bus stopped for a loo break at the town famous for deep fried beetles, crickets and tarantulas. This has been my worst freaking out incident to date. At one ... |
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 | Viva la revolution!
2008-11-07, Sihanoukville, Cambodia. By: katsmith | | Welcome to the South East Asia portion of my travels!
As some of you know from seeing me over the last two weeks, I've been back to the UK and gone again! I got back to the UK after a fairly uneven... |
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 | Sihanoukville
2008-10-30, Sihanoukville, Cambodia. By: rossnkaren | | We went to Sihanoukville because it had beaches and we deserved a rest after the hectic and emotional killing fields and 'war stuff' we'd seen. We stayed on Serendipity beach and it was really picture... |
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 | Phnom Penh
2008-10-28, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: rossnkaren | | We decided the adventurous way to get into Cambodia would be to do the river cruise up the Mekong. We were told it would take 6 and a half hours. So getting used to being lied to we added an hour an... |
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 | Thailand here we come
2008-05-23, Sihanoukville, Cambodia. By: kay1968 | | We have been really lazy in the last 6 days and I mean really lazy. Not much to tell you about really. The monsoon has hit a month earlier than usual so we have experienced our fair share of thunderst... |
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 | Siem Reap and the temples
2008-05-16, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: kay1968 | | We had an early start today in order to make it to the temples before the crowds arrived and whilst the temperature was still cool. Our tuktuk driver suggested doing the small circuit in the reverse o... |
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 | Phnom Penh
2008-05-14, Phnom Pen, Cambodia. By: kay1968 | | The bus journey from Hoi Chi Minh to Phnom Penh was a long one. It didn't help that the seats were rock hard and didn't recline, so much for luxury coach travel! Oh well can't really complain it was o... |
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 | The group
2008-05-15, Cambodia, Cambodia. By: stevoshell | | The group that we spent our Cambodian trip with
Tour Leader - Pharkourn aka 'Dave', Cambodia
Deebs - London, Eng
Sofia - Southampton, Eng
Adam - Cardiff, Wal
Danny - Portsmouth, Eng
Elliot -... |
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| Home Stay
2008-05-02, Kampong Chhnang, Cambodia. By: stevoshell | | During our trip round Cambodia we had the chance to stay with a local family to give us a taste of Cambodian riral life. After being introduced to the family they cooked us feast which was delicious a... |
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| Killing Fields
2008-07-10, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: stevoshell | | We arrived in the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. Very busy city, full of mopeds. The hostel we were staying in wasn't up to much. Michelle found an Ant in her sandwich!! Though it was Phnom Penh whe... |
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| Highs and Lows
2008-05-03, Sihanoukville, Cambodia. By: stevoshell | | Arrived in the beach town of Sihanoukville. Lovely area with a nice beach and plenty of beach bars to keep the party going. Still a lot of poverty in the area with lots of street kids selling braclets... |
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 | Our amazing time in Mondul Kiri
2008-05-02, Mondul Kiri, Cambodia. By: SEA1 | | After having to postpone our travels from Phnom Penh to Mondul Kiri because Raphael got sick, we managed to leave the following day thanks to 'Dad'. Mondul Kiri is a town of about 7000 people in North... |
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| Angkor What?
2008-04-30, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: stevoshell | | Hello from cambodia, after the longest bus journey ever we arrived in Siem Reap in cambodia, it took us 12 hours on the bus (that was air conditioned, thank god!!)and it was also the scariest bus jour... |
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 | Cambodia
2008-04-02, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: GBrownlie | | We arrived in Phnom Penh on 2 April and set out for a bit of sightseeing. First stop was the Tuol Sleng Museum (former Khmer Rouge/Pol Pot prison). It was pretty horrific - the cells were tiny, there ... |
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