Mountain of the Sacred Temple: Preah Vihear
The New York Times’s Daniel Robinson has an interesting article about traveling to Preah Vihear temple. Preah Vihear Temple — the name means Mountain of the Sacred Temple — is the most spectacularly situated of all Angkorian monuments. Built from the ninth to the 12th centuries atop a peak of the Dangkrek Mountains, it occupies...
Cambodia and Vietnam renew its visa exemption agreement
A bilateral agreement on visa exemption that Cambodia and Vietnam signed late last year has come to an end, but the two countries have renewed the regulation. People in both nations can travel cross border with only their passports, while visa is no longer necessary. Via Bernama. Additional by by The Phnom Penh Post’s It...
Banteay Srei
“We continued to see many beautiful carvings in the inner buildings of Banteay Srei. Our guide continued to explain many stories depicted on the walls to us. And although the weather was hot and the sun was shining very brightly, we were not bothered as we immerse in the stories of the mythical creatures and...
Travel Cambodia 2010
Cambodia’s Phnom Penh Post newspaper, with its revamped-online edition launched early this year, has a dedicated section about Cambodia travel (Special Supplements/Travel Cambodia 2010). The newspaper site gets its frequent, if not daily updates, once its print edition is out at the newsstands in Phnom Penh the capital major tourist destinations across the country. Along...
Stay another day in Cambodia
Stay Another Cambodia’s third edition booklet was released at Cambodiana Hotel today after its success in the previous years. The 75-page-publication, which aims to promote Cambodia’s tourism, is a cooperation work between Ministry of Tourism, Economic Today Magazine (ETM), and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (German Technical Cooperation) or GTZ. The booklet’s cover photo, a...
Boeung Kak lake being filled: Phnom Penh
Also related: The Battle for Boeung Kak Lake by Far Eastern Economic Review’s Ron Gluckman
