Monks with umbrellas

Phnom Penh

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December 31st 2006
After our sojourn on the coast, we returned to Phnom Penh for New Year's Eve and spent a couple of days sight seeing, shopping and staying in Raffles Hotel! Phnom Penh was nothing like expected. Not as manic or noisy as HCMC, with beautiful architecture and great restaurants and coffee places. We visited Tuol Sleng - the school which was turned into a gruesome prison (S-21) under the Khmer Roug ... 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