Water Festival in Cambodia
The Cambodian capital city Phnom Penh is set to host one of its largest annual events, Water Festival. Boat rowing contest will attract some ten thousand Cambodians from across the country to enjoy the festivity. Phnom Penh, as usual, will be crowded by throng of people. Meanwhile, it’s also the time for the city residents...
To Battambang by boat
What’s else would you do aside from pay a visit to Cambodia’s magnificent, ancient Angkor Wat? What about Battambang? Battambang is Cambodia’s second-largest city; it’s the main hub of the Northwest connecting the entire region with Phnom Penh and Thailand. It’s tiny. Battambang itself has nothing special about it: the food was sub par at...
Kampong Luang: floating village
‘Kampong’ is not just a prefix to make up any name of Cambodia’s provinces and places, but it also gives some meaning to the location. In most cases, the provinces and places with this ‘Kampong’ are connected to the rivers and streams, making way for locals to have the ‘Kampong’ for their use in their...
National Genocide Center: Phnom Penh
‘National Genocide Center’ is probably a newly-coined term to describe Cambodia’s Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum by travelers Matt and Debz. It’s also widely known as Security Prison 21 (S-21). Our first full day in Phnom Penh gave us a chance to venture out in a Tuk Tuk to the infamous “Killing fields” or “National Genocide...
Darkness and Beauty: Cambodia
A blogger at THE THREE ALPHA TRAVEL wrote an interesting post about Cambodia, its tragedy history and the current political affairs, in particular with neighboring country Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The tourists in their majority are particularly careless and irresponsible giving out money to the street kids (that carry their street brothers and...
