Prestige of Phnom Penh
The Cambodian capital has it all for local residents, visitors, and recently for travel writers. Cambodia is not only about Angkor Wat and other ancient temples in Siem Reap, but also about a burstling capital where business and culture take place.
In 1657 words, STUART EMMRICH of the New York Times wrote on the country’s largest city beginning with a meaningful headline: In Phnom Penh, Hopefulness Replaces Despair. The reporter goes on to compare Phnom Penh to little Paris of France and even to next Prague, the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
In fact, after a few days in this city, you notice that Phnom Penh has something of a “next Prague” vibe about it — a place where many young people from around the world, heady with excitement and the thrill of the unknown, are coming to reinvent themselves.
Following this, Ksenia Glebova has a new article, titled The Phnom Penh experience. Unlike the New York Times article, Ksenia put it this way: “Phnom Penh is like the Berlin of South East Asia – a hectic but fascinating construction site, slowly coming to terms with layers of turbulent history”.