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April 25th 2006
April 15 - 17, 2006 - Phnom Penh Written April 17, 2006 in our hotel room Our first day in the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, began in Siem Reap. We woke up early, had breakfast at our hotel and caught a tuk tuk to the bus station. Our guesthouse in Siem Reap booked our bus tickets to Phnom Penh and our accommodation in Phnom Penh as well as arranged a tuk tuk to the bus station. It made getting out of Siem Reap and to Phnom Penh extremely easy. Our bus left Siem Reap at 8:30 am and arrived in Phnom Penh at 2pm with the ride including a thirty minute lunch break at a stand alongside the road. After catching a cab from the bus station to our hotel in Phnom Penh and carrying ... read more
Nine million bicycles in Beijing? likely. Ten million motorbikes in Cambodia then
Published: April 30th 2006Asia » Cambodia » South » Phnom Penh
April 24th 2006
LOST: My personal space (somewhere on a bus in Cambodia) and my Grey hoddie (somewhere on a bus in Bangkok) Another country another public Holiday, but this one was a good one. I arrived in a very welcoming warm Bangkok expecting to leave the same day for Cambodia, yer. It was Grand Songrikan festival, normally a big event on its own but this year combined with the kings birthday. My word what a party, it entailed lots of water throwing and lots of clay smeared all over you. The bus couldn't drop as anywhere near Kao San Road so we got booted off in the middle of the festivities bags and all! So It was to any guesthouse to drop off bags and arm up with water pistols. Wet doesn't even come close to how we ... read more
April 20th 2006
Hi Everyone Sorry for the long silence from Cambodia. It has been a busy few months with visitors, work, travels and birthdays! Also, I have just finished creating a new website. I wanted to have more functions than Travelblog can provide, so have shifted to blogger.com To check out the new site, and my new wheels, head to: rhiannadean.blogspot.com Over the next few days I hope to have a number of new posts up, dating all the way back to December. Cambodian Weddings, Boat Cruises, Siem Reap, Viet Nam etc. Stay tuned! /Rhianna ... read more
April 20th 2006
After thoroughly enjoying my time in Vietnam, I headed off on an eneventful bus ride to Phnom Penh, the capitol of Cambodia. The city suprised me by being a normal big city, and even more suprising, I learned from the people I was traveling with that there is more American food available in a Cambodian grocery store than in London. However, before I explain the places I visited in Phnom Penh, a brief history lesson on Cambodia might help explain the two main museums. After a civil war that ended in 1975, Cambodia suffered under the ultra-communist Khmer Rouge regime, which stayed in power until 1979. Under the leadership of the paranoid Pol Pot, the goal of the Khmer Rouge was to "turn the clock back to year zero" and instate a rural utopia consisting of ... read more
April 18th 2006
Well Cambodia what can i say.. alot actually beautiful people after all they have been through but still effectively a third world country. They haven't actually heard of bins. the street is the local tip and with the heat you can imagine the aromas. When we arrived there were lots of people covered in white dust (working in the mines I hear you say) I thought the same but actually it was Khmer new year and it is tradition to run up to people and put talc on other peoples faces, which I learnt the hard way. All in good fun. The driving is crazy over here no traffic lights,road markings or mirrors on bikes.It's just bedlam. You fear for your life when you're tuk-tuk driver is crossing the road.When we asked do you have ... read more
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Dark history but happy people (and pizza)
Published: January 15th 2007Asia » Cambodia » South » Phnom Penh
April 17th 2006
Koh Kohn After a hurried farewell to Earth, I was on the ferry back to the mainland, and after a lot of confusion, I was on my way to Koh Kohn (Thai/Cambodia border). I didn’t even know anything that was going on, and I was to only traveler in the van. It turned out, that all I needed for my safe delivery to Phnom Phen was a flimsy little white paper that had a number and the words “Phnom Phen,” which had been given to me by the Thai travel agency I had used. Getting to Koh Kohn, and finding my prepaid guesthouse was a disaster, and I was super precautious to the “dangers and hoodlums that lurked in the streets,” which was my demented perception of the whole country (up to that point). I ... read more
April 16th 2006
sorry that this is really late but its been so hard to get round to writing and we haven;t had time or have been distracted but now we have it all written up so you can now know what has been happening Trat was kind of rubbish..we just hung out and waited for chris and yannicks money stuff to get sorted. We did have a little adventre though there and ended up at the side of a lake until 6 am with a man who claimed to play guitar with stevie wonder, a thai guy called sunshine, two french men and a thai copper (with gun) and that was a pretty fun night. there were about 5 languages flying about that night and none of us could rally understand each other and in order for ... read more
Goodbye Cambodia, Farewell Phnom Penh...
Published: April 16th 2006Asia » Cambodia » South » Phnom Penh
April 16th 2006
GOODBYE CAMBODIA!! AU REVOIR CAMBODGE!! LIHOWIE KAMPUCHEA!!! I'm off - for three weeks in China then back to Oz. I have actually had a great last month in Cambodia - I have been working on a short-term consultancy which has been both challenging and mentally stimulating, and which has involved working with some of the friendliest and most competent Cambodians I have met. It has truly been an experience that has salvaged the memory of Cambodia for me in so may ways! I'm now off to China for a three week long, well-earned holiday. There will probably be more blogs in the next few weeks! I am particularly glad to be heading off right now as it is swelteringly, boilingly, scaldingly, stressful, humidifyingly hot. With average temps of around 40 degrees, high humidity and a blistering ... read more
April 13th 2006
Well, it's been a long time since my last blog, but don't be peeved, you haven't really missed much. Anyway, here are pictures from my stay here, or at least from the last time my camera got nicked. Now, my camera has only got nicked, but that doesn't mean it can't be nicked again. Unfortunately, in this country having any kind of possession is a bit like a Russian roulette. Most of the time you are lucky and all your possessions are still yours, but that doesn't mean that you don't know that given enough time someone will eventually lighten you of some of your worldly possessions. The upside of this is that you don't really get too attached to mere things. Although I reckon that Buddha didn't really have theft in mind as a way ... read more
April 12th 2006
every time i wake up i think its gonna be back in the jungle but instead its in my hotel room with only 1 day left in cambodia its very sad for all concernd please send money ino want to come back i am now a cambodian my name is fung si yuk but i need your money to buy a bar near the beach i mean it its not fair ok i see you soon fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... read more
