 | US dollars please!
2004-10-02, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: wts | | We had pre-arranged for a taxi to take us to our hotel, to the disappointment of the many taxi and tuk tuk drivers that were there waiting for us to disembark! Hehehe The ride was no more than 2mins b... |
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 | Lia suhn hoa-y Cambodia!
2004-09-14, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: Alex_RTW | | After the traumatic journey back to Phnom Penh from Kampot, we checked in to the California II for the final time and received the usual, unusual welcome from the staff. Everyone seemed happy and almo... |
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| Do you Khmer often?
2004-08-08, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: Alex_RTW | | Emerging from the plane to take our first steps on Cambodian soil, we were hit by intense heat and humidity which made Bangkok seem positively bracing! After months of relatively easy travelling throu... |
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 | Back in Phnom Penh
2004-06-11, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: eberglund | | After a couple of weeks of silence I am back to report from life on the road.
We decided to get an extension of our Visa for 6 days to stay down in the 4000-island region in the south of Laos, and... |
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 | Cheung ek
2004-05-31, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: rachael | | Yesterday and the day before we did not do anything at all! Today though, we cycled to the “ killing fields”. They were supposed to be about 15 kilometers outside of town but it felt more like about... |
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| Shadow theater
2004-05-29, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: rachael | | Well, We decided not to go to the killing fields after all. I think that we will go tommorrow instead.
Yesterday we went to see a performance at a little theater beside S-21 founded by a french ... |
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| S-21 Museum
2004-05-27, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: rachael | | Phnom Penh, so far, is amazing!
Yesterady we went to the national museum which is housed in an absolutely beautiful building.
It's neighbouring building is the palace and some large temples ba... |
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| The capital city
2004-05-25, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: rachael | | Hi There!
Well since the last time i wrote we have crossed the border to Cambodia.
We stayed in the south of Laos for about 2 weeks. First we went to Don Khong. This island was quite big but t... |
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 | Last week in Cambodia
2003-12-15, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: philstone | | My last week in Cambodia came as a bit of an anticlimax, heading down to Sihanoukville for some beach time I was thinking about extending my visa for another couple of weeks. I thouhgt that maybe spen... |
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 | Dust, dust, and some more dust
2003-12-07, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: philstone | | Phnom Penh. Before I got there even the name itself sounded dangerous.
6 years ago when I was in Thailand Cambodia was pretty much off the
map, and Phnom Penh was not a place to vist of you wa... |
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 | Phenom Penh
2003-04-05, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: kyt | | The FCC Club and Beyond |
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 | Phnom Penh and the Killing Fields
2003-02-22, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: cspeck | | Brian and I had similar plans for our travels in Cambodia, so we decided to travel to Phnom Penh together. We took a large speedboat which traversed a huge lake and then traveled on a river, the trip... |
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 | journey to phnom penh
2002-01-08, phnom penh, Cambodia. By: lomotravel | | it was time to leave the dreams of angkor behind and see some of the other sides of cambodia to find out if they complimented or clashed with the observations we had already made. we decided to take t... |
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 | A Night Out...
2002-10-21, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: Todd | | Well, just to cut long story short after having eaten out at an Indian restaurant we've been out last night at the "Heart of Darkness" in the centre of Phnom Penh - together with the french guys (Laur... |
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 | Discovering the atrocities, temples and roads
2002-09-23, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: djsproule | | 10 days in Cambodia, wow what an eye opener! We took a boat along the Mekong River from Vietnam to Cambodia. An incredible way to see how importnat the river is to both the Viatamese and the Cambodi... |
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 | Bangkok - Siem Riep - Phanon Penh
2002-08-31, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: jimi | | Bangkok started to bore after checking out almost all tourist sites in there. Also girl got too enthusiactic (nice for a start), but then it started to annoy later on and ladyboys (not sure) were also... |
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 | A Day in Phnom Penh
2002-05-16, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: oncearound | | Hello again!
Kasey and I are back in Phnom Penh after our sojourn south. I can't say as though I am thrilled to be back. Phnom Penh is a discordant, disorderly, disorganized, dirty, nerve-janglin... |
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 | hell on wheels
2002-05-15, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: oncearound | | Well after Phnom Penh we made our way to a tiny little town (a bustling metropolis by Cambodian standards)called Kampot. Kampot is located on a river about 5km upstream from the ocean and hence it was... |
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 | Spiderville
2002-01-02, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: nsuffield | | Taxi back to Phnom Penh ... er ... no thankyou! I'll take a minibus, that'll be much more reliable ... and there'll be more people to push it, eh! Ha ha!
(Four stops later....)
... hmmm! I bet ... |
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 | Beer Babes
2001-12-28, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: nsuffield | | Caught the bus back to Phnom Penh and stayed over night, on our way through to Siem Reap. That night we went for dinner at a place serving top Cambodian food. Hmmm! So which beer should I take! Hmmm! ... |
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 | Sad, sobering, stupid and fruity
2001-12-18, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: nsuffield | | At breakfast we had a chat with one of the lads that worked at the guesthouse. He suggested that we go to see the killing fields where thousands and thousands of Cambodians were shot and bludgeoned to... |
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| It's not me ... really
2001-12-17, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: nsuffield | | Flew out of Bangok and into Cambodia on a day when the sun seemed to have gone supernova. Not a day to be introduced to the Cambodian immigration ‘system’. System …. hmmm … a rugby scrum around a desk... |
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| Our first impression of Cambodia
2001-12-17, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: nsuffield | | We arrived in Phnom Penh and already trying to get a visa was an experience. Hundreds of people were pushing each other around at the counter, passports and money were being handed/thrown around and ... |
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 | A Sober Day...
2001-11-22, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: cpeely | | In complete contrast to last night's debortuary.. which I will detail first.
So in an attempt to circumvent the rather hideous pricing here (where the USD is the currency everything is priced in.. ... |
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| Guns, Guns and more Guns
2001-11-21, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By: cpeely | | This place makes Texas look moderate... although come to think of it.. I can't quite work out why you can't blow up cows with bazookas in Texas too, given the prevalance of both weapons and bovines.. ... |
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