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The street market we had to negotiate our way through to get back to our hotel. At night the market is packed away and deserted by all but the rats, football-sized and horrifying as they squeak menacingly and rush for your ankles. Best avoided, we quickly discovered.
Holiday in Cambodia

December 4th 2007
Sua S'dei Sweet Cambodia Phnom Penh is enchanting. With its wide streets, colourful tuk-tuks, crumbling colonial buildings up against superb restorations and the spires of Khmer wats arcing gracefully into the sky, it’s a city that peacefully inhabits its space by the Tonle Sap lake. On the advice of our Lonely Planet, we did a walking tour of this flat city, as many of the notable sights ar ... read more
Asia » Cambodia » South » Phnom Penh

Cambodian Flag 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 ... ... read more
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