Phnom Penh

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After five hours bus journey we arrived at Phnom Penh on 12th Feb. Since Chinese new year holiday was over, we could easily find a good Guest House ( Burly Guest House ) with very reasonable price of 13 USD per night (A/C, TV, hot water). In the afternoon we walked through the center of the city and had dinner at FCC ( Foreign Correspondents Club) which was really a nice place on the Riverfront .
On the second day we visited 240 street where there are quality shops and fine art galleries , Royal Palace and Central Market.
There were two places which could be visited but we didn’t; killing fields and S-21.

From April 1975 untill January 1979 ultra- Communist Khmer Rouge (i.e. Red Khmer) controlled the whole of Cambodia. During the short reign of the Khmer rouge, between 1 & 2.5 million Cambodians perished, some killed outright, others died from disease.Some of the horrific remnants of the regime in Phnom Penh can be seen at killing fields and Youl Sieng Museum (S-21).

The French influence in city planning and architecture is obvious. The names of the streets are numbered as ‘RUE’. Open cafe life on the pavements are as in Paris.

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Photos

Riverside view
From FCC

FCC
Foreign Correspondence Club

FCC
Very nice bar, rest. and meeting place for tourists

Entrance of the Royal Palace
and banana pile on the tree

Royal Palace
The Throne hall

Royal Palace
Different temples

Silver Pagoda
Royal Palace

Model of Angkor Wat (temple)
in the Royal Palace area

having breakfast
at a cafe on the pavement

Deep Fried Grass Hooper
You should taste it...

Comments

[zeynep]

cok ozledik
Fotograflar1n1z cok guzel, sizinle seyehat ediyoruz adeta. (Çekirge sahnesi d1_1nda elbette) gercekten yediniz mi baba?

[juvigiller]

Zeynep'c1m,
yemedik sadece pozdu. Godugunuz g1b1 her turlu bocek sat1l1yor.