Cambodia travel advice/1st trip

The best advice I can give you is to look up the blogs written on Cambodia. It will help you pick out a route and give you plenty of tips. Be flexible you may well want to/have to change this route as you move along. Roads are fairly poor in Cambodia with only a couple of national routes, getting off the beaten track therefore takes a bit more imagination and also more money. The 2 main centres tourists go to are Phnom Penh and Siem Reap. You don't need a guide to show you around as long as you are happy to do some research yourself. Cambodia, surprisingly is pretty good at producing tourist literature. Most cities/big towns produce a free seasonal brochure listing hotels, restaurants etc. The other great thing is in the larger towns in Cambodia English is pretty widely spoken. Check out the following website for some more ideas, www.travelfish.org. Have a great trip. EdAm Reply to this

Tour Guide - depends on your budget, having a local tour guide with you always makes for a better experience as you get a real insight to a place. However, its not essential, you can visit all the main tourist places with a good guide book.

Where to Stay - depends on budget, most towns that tourists go to have a good selection of accommodation and associated services nearby.

Hope this helps…

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I intent to come to Cambodia too ( in june or july). I will go alone. If you like you can join in me for traveling. But I am a vietnamese gay. Reply to this

hi guy
if you are interest i could send you the email (in MP) of my girlfriend, she work to tourism office in chiang mai (thailand), she will glad to give you welcome with her behavior thai smile, planing your tour with your suggests/advises, she doing visa, booking hotels, fly & transfert for customers to cambodia, vietnam, laos, china and burma, also.
is it easy and confortable, it isn't?
i wait you news
cheers
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We found it pretty easy and cheap to travel round Cambodia (although the journeys can be long and bumpy!). Our top tip would be to try to book any bus tickets a couple of days ahead of the date you want to travel as you are able to reserve specific seats and on many buses the seats in the front row right behind the driver have extra leg room (my boyfriend is 6ft 4ish and when we had these seats he had plenty of room). No need to book bus tickets through guest houses or agents in Phnom Penh - the bus station is fairly central and we found the staff are happy to help. The bus station in Siem Reap is a bit of a trek out of town but we found that the agents in town didn't seem to add much money to the price of the ticket if you just bought them there instead - the extra cost worked out about the same as paying for a tuk tuk up to the station and back so unless you want to walk it's as cheap to do it that way. We got a tuk tuk driver to take us round the temples in Siem Reap so that we could see more in the time we had - quite a few people hire bikes and cycle but it was so hot when we were there that I wouldn't have made it very far before I collapsed with heat exhaustion! You will be approached by lots of tuk tuk drivers looking for your business (especially outside the central market) and most of them are willing to bargain - I think the going rate is about US$10 a day but the more days you hire them for the more willing they are to negotiate. Hope this helps but if you have any specific questions just let us know and we'd be happy to answer them if we can! Reply to this

Well i guess there's another option to travel around if not by bus or bicycle.. you can choose to ride on a Tuk-Tuk. It's pretty fun though. Reply to this

Christian, thanks alot. I will def. research that. Off the beaten track is always a great way to find a hidden gem in travel. Reply to this