Monks walking past the Royal Palace gates

Phnom Penh & The Killing Fields

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June 8th 2009
After a fairly comfortable five hour bus journey from Sihanoukville we arrived in the centre of one of the craziest places we have been to yet, Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh. The bus company had fenced the tuk tuk drivers and hotel touts off like caged animals for us while we got our bags off the bus so once we had sorted ourselves out we went to select one of the baying mob and asked to be taken ... read more

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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