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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. To be updated

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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]

Ilkka and Olga - Ilkka Tiainen & Olga Novikova | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 23rd 2009 | 43 Views | [diary=462068]


By fam bjoernstrup
December 22nd 2009
Phnom Penh Asia » Cambodia » South » Phnom Penh
Tirsdag den 22.12.2009 Signe har stadig feber )-: Børnene er trætte af at spise toastbrød, så i stedet får de hvidløgsflutes og frisk ananas. Hvis ikke de får noget at spise dur det slet ikke så, hvidløgsflutes er bedre end ingenting - og toastbrødet er altså også kedeligt. Personalet på guesthouset har opdaget, at vi nok har tænkt os at blive, så de foreslår os at købe vand hos gadesælgeren overfor, i stedet for hos dem, da det er meget billigere der. Jo de er meget flinke. På den måde kan Freja og Julie også få øvet noget engelsk. Ikke fordi [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 31st 2009 | 15 Views | [diary=463889]


Wow Wow Wow!!! There is DEFINALTY a heaven on earth!!! And we've found it!!! Imagine a place where nothing surrounds you but white sand, clear blue sea, stunning coral reef, lots of hammocks and 12 really cute wooden huts all positioned right on the beach...And there, you have Lazy Beach Resort!!! After a 2 hour boat trip from Serendipity Beach in Sihanoukville, we arrived on the Island of Koh Rong Saloem (or Koh Rong Salami ... as Onie calls it), which would be our home for the next 8 nights! On arrival after walking down the resorts rickaty jetty, we found [View Full Entry]

Ricky and Onie - Richard and Leonie | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 21st 2009 | 87 Views | [diary=461774]

View Point from Kho Rong Saloem
Lazy Beach Bay
Our Beach Hut

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 | 66 Views | [diary=461827]

Delicious dinner at Angkor Palm
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Temple near Angkor Thom

Day X and XI Border We managed to cross the border after 23 hours. WUHUU! Siem Reap We had 152km to drive to Siem Reap, roads were nice but landscapes were boring. We arrived by sunset and found a really nice hotel for only 15usd per night. Religion I talked with one woman from the US, who’s been living in Cambodia for some time, and she said that local people are unhappy because of their religious belief that if you do once something wrong in your life you will be reborn as a dog. One mistake will haunt you forever. I [View Full Entry]

Ilkka and Olga - Ilkka Tiainen & Olga Novikova | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 21st 2009 | 33 Views | [diary=461844]


By RedTiger
December 17th 2009
The Jungle Trek! Asia » Cambodia » East » Banlung
I'm already a little concerned that my fitness, or lack of it, may prove a problem and so this trek may need to be 'tailored' a little. No shit Sherlock as it turned out! Anyway, got picked up by my guide on a motorbike. This wqas interesting as I have a large rucksack weighing a mere 25lbs and he has a rice sack with improvised carrying loops tied to it to make a rucksack that weighs even more and 2 up on a 125 with no crash helmet on some of the worst dirt road I've seen in Cambodia so far! [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 22nd 2009 | 30 Views | [diary=461989]


Ratanakiri is great and am off on my first jungle trek for 3 days tomorrow - needless to say there is no tinterweb in the jungle and I won't be posting or replying to emails until Friday evening Cambodia time GMT plus 6 hours which is when there is electricity until midnight! More Friday folks! [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 16th 2009 | 25 Views | [diary=460791]


By RedTiger
December 16th 2009
Banlung Market Asia » Cambodia » East » Banlung
Proper Bacon and fried eggs with fried cubes of potato and onion for brekkie then the moto chap turns up 30 minutes late - no surprise there, and off to the market. Banlung Market is a big one as Banlung is the provincial capitol. The 'minority peoples'as the khmers call them are here in force selling all sorts of herbs and plants gathered from the jungle where many of them live, vegetables like potatoes and green stick beans they've grown, papaya and bananas, tamarind still in the pod straight from the tree, wild ginger root, rows of small fish six to [View Full Entry]

RedTiger - Nigel Filer | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 22nd 2009 | 18 Views | [diary=461974]


By TraceyB
December 15th 2009
Awesome Angkor Asia » Cambodia » North » Siem Reap
Hi everyone Well I've been a little slack with my updates lately.....but better late than never! When I last wrote I had arrived in Siem Reap and I was very excited about the days ahead of me exploring the temples in the area. I was staying in the Ta Som guest house which was pretty basic but at us$12 per night you couldn't expect too much....and that price included breakfast! So after I'd eaten my eggs, french bread and fruit (Yum!) washed down with a coffee laden with condensed milk (not so yum!) my friendly tuk tuk driver turned up to [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 15th 2009 | 52 Views | [diary=460565]

Angkor Temple - Angkor Wat too hot for working
Angkor Temple - Ta Som 2
Angkor Temple - Ta Som children

By RedTiger
December 15th 2009
Off to Ratanakiri Province Asia » Cambodia » East » Banlung
The bus to Banlung was 30 minutes late and there were only 10 people on board. The journey is supposed to take 4.5 hours - at least that's what the ticket seller told me. 2 hours later we got turfed off the bus at Stung Treng because they said the bus had broken down! It was perfectly all right and I couldn't work out why we were in Stung Treng anyway as it's the long way round. I reckon they didn't want to run the bus at a loss to Banlung with only 10 people. 2 hours later we were told [View Full Entry]

RedTiger - Nigel Filer | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 22nd 2009 | 12 Views | [diary=461944]