Blogs from Phnom Penh, South, Cambodia, Asia - page 228

Ok, just a brief note to all out there. I can no longer be reached on my tiscali.no email, because Telenor has taken over tiscali.no, and of course deleted everything. So, if you have sent me a message within the past weeks or so, please resend it to tink_kim@hotmail.com Besides that, I am having a good time, I have gotten myself a motorbike, so I am very mobile. Cool. More later.... read more

Some people have visited every country in the world. When I was a child, this was something I always thought I would do, as well as learn every language in the world... Lets see how I go.... ... read more

Phnom Peng - die Hauptstadt von Cambodia in der ich ein wenig krank wurde und einen Tag laenger dableiben musste als geplant. Man sollte wohl keine Suppen auf dem Markt essen sondern lieber das Essen vom TAT Guesthouse vorziehen :-) Einen lob an meine Schwester: deine Hotelempfehlungen waren bisher spitze! Ja, das TAT war richtig familier und sehr nett. Genau das richtige um sich von der lauten Stadt zu erholen. Auch sehr zu empfehlen ist das National Museeum wo ich ueber drei Stunden in dem herrlichen Garten gelesen habe. Ansonsten nerven die Motofahrer ein wenig in Phnom Peng. Die wollen einen dauernd zu den Killing Fields bringen, wo tausende von Menschen waehrend des Khamer Rouge Regimes ermordet wurden, und danach wollen sie dich gleich neben an zu der Shouting Range absetzen, als ob die zwei "Attraktionen" ... read more

I arrived in Phnom Penh yesterday and I have been on the whirlwind tourist circuit ever since. I am staying at Okay Guesthouse - the sister guesthouse of the place I stayed at in Siem Reap. It's got a nice backpackers atmosphere. They assigned me a moter-bike driver right away which was nice yesterday but it's now kind of annoying me. The poor guy is supposed to look-after me during my entire stay it seems. Every time I come downstairs he hands me the menu and tries to get me to order food from the house restaurant. If decline he hounds me about where I want to go and I know he's watching my every move. Luckily I met my Irish friends here so we are all in the same boat with the over-attentive motorbike drivers. ... read more

i just got back on sunday night from a medical mission to Prey Veng in Cambodia. just wanted to share a few words about our experience. everytime i go overseas and return home i always joke about having to come back to the real world here in Singapore. but this trip was a complete reversal coz i've seen a glimpse of what the REAL world was during our mission out at Kampong Leav, Prey Veng. it was really an eye-opening (and heart-opening) experience to see for myself what the poorer people in cambodia are facing daily. we saw a spectrum of villagers from a family of 7 surviving on 15 US cents per day to reasonably comfortable ones who could show us blood and ultrasound reports from the city hospitals and more affluent ones toting handphones ... read more