Locals fishing

Battangbang (Jan 2008)

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January 9th 2008
We left Phnom Penh to go to Battambang on the bus and went to a lovely hotel called the Royal Hotel. Everyone is really friendly in Cambodia and the guys in the hotel were lovely. Battambang was much less touristy then Phnom Penh and much less shouts of "tuk tuk" everywhere! Battambang is a riverside town but there isn't much to do in the centre itself, you have to get out of the town and go ex ... read more

Asia » Cambodia » North » Battambang

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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 ... ... read more