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Background: Most Cambodians consider themselves to be Khmers, whose Angkor Empire extended over much of Southeast Asia and reached its zenith between the 10th and 13th centuries. Subsequently, attacks by the Thai and Cham (from present-day Vietnam) weakened the empire ushering in a long period of decline. In 1863, the king of Cambodia placed the country under French protection; it became part of French Indochina in 1887. Following Japanese occupation in World War II, Cambodia became independent within the French Union in 1949 and fully independent in 1953. After a five-year struggle, Communist Khmer Rouge forces captured Phnom Penh in April 1975 and ordered the evacuation of all cities and towns; at least 1.5 million Cambodians died from execution, enforced hardships, or starvation during the Khmer Rouge regime under POL POT. A December 1978 Vietnamese invasion drove the Khmer Rouge into the countryside, led to a 10-year Vietnamese occupation, and touched off almost 13 years of civil war. The 1991 Paris Peace Accords mandated democratic elections and a ceasefire, which was not fully respected by the Khmer Rouge. UN-sponsored elections in 1993 helped restore some semblance of normalcy and the final elements of the Khmer Rouge surrendered in early 1999. Factional fighting in 1997 ended the first coalition government, but a second round of national elections in 1998 led to the formation of another coalition government and renewed political stability. The July 2003 elections were relatively peaceful, but it took one year of negotiations between contending political parties before a coalition government was formed. Nation-wide local elections are scheduled for 2007 and national elections for 2008.




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By Layla and Ste
December 27th 2009
Phnom Penh Asia » Cambodia » South » Phnom Penh
Okay so have managed to add a few pictures the last 3 blogs if you want to click on top left "previous entry"you can see the piccies! But no piccies for this one Im afraid as all the memory cards keep messing up as loads of the computers we use end up having viruses and all sorts on them, so frustrating!! So anyway, back to the blog, so boxing day for us was spent with an early 5 hour bus journey from Sihanoukville to the Capital City of Phnom Penh. Journey was fine, we got dropped off not too far from [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 28th 2009 | 9 Views | [diary=463019]


320km It took us 8 hours to get here from Siem Reap with motorbike. We made various stops on the way. After Siem Reap the landscapes where still the same, but we could see that people were wealthier than in the west: houses, bikes, motorbikes and more cars were on the way. Roads were fine and traffic was easy going untill we got in to the capital area. Here people drive like mad outside the city. Nobody gives a fuck about anybody else than themselves. Size matters in the way that what the bike you have to always give road for [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 23rd 2009 | 32 Views | [diary=462068]


Merry Christmas (I can't remember Hello in Khmer)! We travelled for 30 hours (Varkala-Cochin-Chennai-Bangalore-Bangkok-Siem Reap) before landing in Siem Reap. It felt like a 36hr race...same same, but different. Instead of biking/running it involved carrying heavy bags, going up escalators and getting searched in security. Siem Reap was amazing! First, we ended up staying in the best guesthouse EVER called the Shadow of Angkor - wow! We had a beautiful room with A/C and the kitchen made the most divine banana pancakes :) We spent two and half days visiting the various temples [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 23rd 2009 | 53 Views | [diary=461827]

Delicious dinner at Angkor Palm
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Temple near Angkor Thom

By gabanie
December 14th 2009
Day 89: Phnom Penh Asia » Cambodia » South » Phnom Penh
Phnom penh is the capital of cambodia, and the biggest city. We ended up spending 4 days in phnom penh while waiting for our vietnam visas. On the 11 hour bus ride from ban lung to phnom penh, we had plenty of time to read our guide book, and we decided on heading toward Bueng Kak lake for our first night. It is one of the few "backpacker" areas in phnom penh. We got in after dark, so we weren't too picky about where we stayed the first night. We were just looking for a hotel that had hot water and [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 16th 2009 | 67 Views | [diary=460731]


By RedTiger
December 10th 2009
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I very nearly miss the bus tback to Phnom Penh thanks to the TutTut driver dropping me at the wrong bus stop! I hijack someone elses TutTut who is going in the direction of the bus station and make it with 5 mins to spare. I notice seats 3 and 4 on this bus also have very little leg room but this time I'm not sat there. In fact I have seats 5 and 6 all to myself with lots of leg room. My stomach is playing up again but I have filched a whole bog roll this time and attempt [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 11th 2009 | 25 Views | [diary=459730]


By shastan
December 7th 2009
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Day 8 n 9 Dec 6/7 We are now back in Phnom Penh which is the capital of Cambodia, as you know if you have been reading my previous blogs that this is where we first set off from, once again had an early start as left Siem Reap at 7am, so happy we took the VIP mini bus as it took us only 4hrs. We thought the bus would drop us off back at the hotel here but instead it was at their bus station and thankfully the owner of our hotel was there waiting for us to take us [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 7th 2009 | 106 Views | [diary=458804]

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A visit to the beautiful National Museum, the brutal Killing Fields, and the devastating S21 Prison Arriving mid afternoon on the Thursday we decided to make the most of our time and first went to the guest house to drop off our bags then straight to the outstandingly built National Museum. Before even getting near the doors you are blown away by the beautiful gardens and the pure size of this unreal building. Inside was even more amazing when you look at the age of some of these sculptures. Blown away by the Buddhas and the Ganeshes that cover every [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 9th 2009 | 25 Views | [diary=458525]


Well I got to the point where I couldn't wait to leave Vietnam. Mainly because I just couldn't take the in your face hard sell'' attitude of most of the people in the end. The constant sounding of horns in the traffic got to me too! Saigon just wasn't my cup of tea I have too admit - too noisy 24 x 7! And the overcharging of tourists went to new levels. The hotel even hassled me to pay my bill in full the day before I left! There are some good things about Vietnam and some lovely places and I [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 3rd 2009 | 42 Views | [diary=457945]


By TraceyB
November 25th 2009
The madness of Phnom Penh Asia » Cambodia » South » Phnom Penh
Hi again I decided to once again take the easy option and fly to Phnom Penh from Bangkok and arrived in the evening rush hour which means that the traffic is even crazier than usual! After I managed to fight my way out of the airport through the throng of taxi and tuk tuk drivers I was lead to a taxi to take me to my hotel.....we drove about 100 metres to another taxi which I was transferred into....still trying to figure that one out! We battled our way through the traffic to the hotel and I was quite enjoying the [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 25th 2009 | 59 Views | [diary=455766]


By Muno
November 15th 2009
Whistle Stop Tour of Cambodia Asia » Cambodia » South » Phnom Penh
Rather than the usual blogs on small weekend breaks and shopping trips to Tesco's which we have been boring you with since being back in the real world we have finally been somewhere of note to warrant a "Travel Blog", I hope. Whilst the destination is far flung our traditional methods of traveling are evolving somewhat and we appear to have grown out of "backpacking" in its truest form and are now experiencing places in a bit more luxury than on previous longer trips - well almost anyway. So what to do with only 4 weeks holiday a year? Numerous options [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 29th 2009 | 142 Views | [diary=446723]

Old Pepsi Factory
Angkor Wat
Crab and Green Pepper


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