Thursday, 8 Oct 2009 | Views [828] | Comments [1]
Battambang
is the second largest city in Cambodia
and not at all tourist orientated. It’s such a pleasure to not be hounded for massage,
tuk-tuk, motorcycle etc. Walking around town I actually get stared at. Either
because I’m so devilishly handsome ... Read more >
Tags: battembang
Sunday, 4 Oct 2009 | Views [1440]
Having
learned my lesson on the bus trip up from Sihanoukville to Phnom Penh, I paid a little extra for my
ticket to Siem Reap and found a seat further back, out of sight of the front
windscreen and almost out of hearing of the horn and the karaoke ... Read more >
Tags: angkor wat, siem reap, temples
Tuesday, 29 Sep 2009 | Views [821]
It seems
that everything passes through Phnom
Penh, so I was back in the city for a few days before
heading further north.
The drive
up from Sihinoukville was interesting. I was on a much cheaper bus than the one
I went down on and as ... Read more >
Tags: phnom penh, touls slang genocide museum
Thursday, 24 Sep 2009 | Views [796]
Sihanoukville
is apparently the closest place that Cambodia has to a typical resort
town, but it still has some way to go to emulate the Thai beach resorts (I’m
not saying that that’s a bad thing). There are a mix of relatively unspoilt
beaches ... Read more >
Tags: sihanoukville
Sunday, 20 Sep 2009 | Views [905]
When I flew in to Phnom Penh I was amazed at the scale of the monsoon flooding. There was water as far as you could see. The river banks and settlements were raised high enough to see them but there was water everywhere. I was worried that we were ... Read more >
Tags: phnom penh
