My aim was to visit at least 100 countries, and with Brazil, I finally did it. I'm now loitering at 104. Or is it 105, I lose count...
Unlike a lot of fellow travellers, I tend to only dip my feet into a country, quite often only staying a day or two before heading off somewhere else.
Country numbers 54 and 55 were my first trips alone - something I never thought I'd do.
In 2013 I published an e-book entitled The Red Quest, detailing my mission to visit each and every country of the former Soviet Union. Along the way I sa... full info
Phnom Penh It's strange you didn't tell everyone about the crime and saftey in Phnom Penh. You didn't say anything about all the street kids that will follow you around begging for money on Riverside. Nothing about the deformed people that stand outside the S-21 prison begging or the group thats stands by the entrances to the Russian market. I went to Phnom Penh for six days it was a night mare. I spent Two years in Iraq. I ran over 500+ missions there and felt safer than in Cambodia.
Regards
It's interesting you mention the safety aspect. We were warned about Phnom Penh by lots of people, including the taxi driver who picked us up from the airport. So we were expecting something a bit more dangerous than the other places we'd visited in that area (Bangkok, Vientiane, Hanoi, Siem Reap) but although it did have a very definite 'edge' to us the place was safe.
True, there were the street kids (but no worse than anywhere else) and there were the beggars with stumps (again,, we'd experienced far worse in Delhi). But unlike you, perhaps, we never strayed (more or less) away from the beaten track. We also didn't go out after abour 10pm. So to a certain extent, we were cocooned from certain elements, although we were independent travellers.
Thanks for the comment though.
Regards
Jason
safety My experience in PP was a bit different as I worked there... There are safety issues and everyone has different levels of tolerance, so I think it's varies from person to person and it's important to figure out what you are comfortable with before going. But, again I agree a lot of other countries are similar, so I wouldn't say it was worse than other areas I visited. Again it depends a lot on luck and while I have to admit I had an unpleasant experience towards the end of my stay there, there's probably more chance of being in a car accident at home than something happening while there.
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Phnom Penh
It's strange you didn't tell everyone about the crime and saftey in Phnom Penh. You didn't say anything about all the street kids that will follow you around begging for money on Riverside. Nothing about the deformed people that stand outside the S-21 prison begging or the group thats stands by the entrances to the Russian market. I went to Phnom Penh for six days it was a night mare. I spent Two years in Iraq. I ran over 500+ missions there and felt safer than in Cambodia. Regards