• Another bridge in Cambodia – From Kampong Cham to Kratie
• Selling vegatables from a boat in Stung Treng, Cambodia
• Day in the sun
• Cambodia, Monkey invasion at Angkor Wat, What happend to my bread?
• Cambodia, Tuol Sleng Prisoners/Mother and her baby
• Temples and Torture: Impressions of Cambodia
• Postcard from Cambodia – Tonle Sap (Part 3)

• Using tourism to build our future and preserve our past
• Siem Reap: An Overview
• Cambodia Takes to the Roads in Building Spree

We learn from figure to understand the fact. That said, the number of visitors to Cambodia continue to increase. As the Royal Cambodian Government has strong diplomatic relation with big dragons of Asia, South Korea and Japan, the tourist from the two nations made the top ten in the first six months of this year. Cambodia relies heavily on tourism for its economic growth.

The number of foreign visitors to Cambodia has increased in the first six months of 2006. From January to June, 813,392 tourists and those on business visited Cambodia, 19% more than the same period of 2005, according to the Ministry of Tourism. South Korean tourists are still at the top of the list numbering 148,000, followed by Japan at 70,000 and United States with 60,000, while the numbers of tourists from the UK and France decreased.

The world goes wiresless, so does Cambodia. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has lately launched e-Visa that enables visitors to apply for a Cambodia travel visa online.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has launched e-Visa which enables you to apply for a Cambodia travel visa online. Instead of applying through Cambodian Embassy, all you need is to complete the online application form and pay with your credit card. You will get your visa approved within 3 business days.

Cambodia is no Malaysia. What are doing in Cambodia? Do you Khmer/Cambodian food and cheap stuff?

The food is good — I’m eating a lot more haha. 2 servings of rice and being more adventurous than usual with food tasting. Kenny’s tried frogs and god knows what else. I haven’t reached that level yet hah. Loads of pictures to show you all and even more stories to tell…
Oh and all the beef and pork is strangely tough. Don’t know what they feed the cows and pigs here. Scenery on the way from Battambang to Phnom Penh was nice. Loads of nonsense to see. Better than Malaysia hahahaha.

Is it difficult to spell the name of the Cambodian capital city? Would you say this: Phnom Phen or Phnom Penh? Phnom Penh has its history. That is the most interesting thing to read.

The first place we stayed in in Cambodia was it’s capital, Phnom Phen. This city is just overflowing with history, most of which many aren’t even aware of. From 1975-1979 approximately 3 million educated Cambodian people were killed by the Khmer Rouge Regime. Surprising that this could have went on not so long ago and yet not many people even know about it. We went to the Killing Fields where many of the people (women and children included) were taken to be killed and buried in mass graves.

It might be a unique experience to sightsee Battambang town by cycling. For now it is possible. Looking for personal transport as in the Netherlands?

During my visit to Battambang in January, I literally bumped into the half dozen cyclists who were on the first-ever Pepy Ride in Cambodia. They were resting – well, they were actually trying their hand at a cooking class at the Smokin’ Pot restaurant – after many days on the road as part of their five week trip visiting schools and orphanages and spreading the Pepy message, ‘Protect the Earth.

No longer a war zone, Cambodia has emerged into traveler’s map and became the destination where every photographer dreams of.

My cousin asked if he could borrow the SLR for his trip to Cambodia a week ago. He came back and told me the place is a photographer’s dream. I’ll bet he wouldn’t have said that when I was there, many, many years ago. When I was there, that place was still a war zone.

Cambodia is no longer a nation at war, but a war-torn country. Recently the team of Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone has made their way to Cambodia in an effort to cover and report a number of news and stories about the country past and its struggle today.

Portraits of Pain
The Khmer Rouge killed as many as two million people during its reign over Cambodia. But at S-21 prison its leaders ensured the legacy of their genocide.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – By the sheer number of photographs now displayed at the former prison known as S-21, it is clear the Khmer Rouge was very good at two things: killing people and documenting the lives of its victims.

The Killing Field
Choeung Ek was only one of many killing fields during the Cambodian genocide, but its pagoda full of skulls has become the most poignant symbol of justice delayed.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – The staggering crime of 17,000 murders could not be buried in the orchards of Choeung Ek for long, although the Khmer Rouge did try.

Forgotten Past?
As many as two million people were killed during Cambodia’s genocide. Why aren’t students there learning about it?

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – As many as two million people died during the genocide perpetrated by the Communist
Khmer Rouge regime and its leader, Pol Pot, which ruled the nation from 1975 to 1979.

The Dark Trade
The sex trade in Southeast Asia continues to boom, and Cambodia is at the center. A Hot Zone video appears to reveal a dark, and all too common, side of the industry.

The commercial sex industry bustles in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, with bars, restaurants and hotels often doubling as brothels. Many brothels are simply storefronts on Phnom Penh’s busy streets; pimps swing open the steel doors, revealing a room with women sitting inside, waiting for clients.

Year Zero
Nearly thirty years after Cambodia’s genocide, those responsible may finally be tried, if they’re not already dead or dying.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – When the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia in 1975, their leader, Pol Pot, proclaimed that it was “Year Zero” in the newly-renamed Democratic Republic of Kampuchea and that the society would not only be transformed from urban to rural, but recreated as a utopian agricultural paradise.

Good Work
In the Khmer Rouge genocide, Cambodians lost not just people, but important links to their culture. A local group finds creative ways to restore them.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Chantha uses an acetylene torch to cut a series of concentric rings from the large “vase” of copper.

The edges of the pieces will be polished smooth and intricate leaf motifs will be cut into the metal, following a familiar Khmer pattern found on Cambodia’s greatest national treasure: the ancient temples of Angkor Wat.

To many travelers, Cambodia is known for its infamous killing fields. The prison of horror of the past is not always the choice of every tourist, but perhaps it is where many of them can actually learn the history of the country.

The purpose of our trip to Phnom Penh was to visit the S-21 prison and the Killing Fields, two places were horrific events took place during the reign of the Khmer Rouge. Our guide for the day was excellent and we learned more from him than we could have from a billion books. It’s amazing to me that a few times a week he spends hours walking through those places, remembering the things that he lived through as a young boy (like many people alive during that time he lost people to the Khmer Rouge). The prison was quite sobering and some of things you see and hear about you’d rather not. There are tons of pictures of people who were held there and executed at the Killing Fields, as well as lots of pictures of the (child) soldiers. There was also an excellent photography exhibit done by a foreigner where he took pictures of the pictures, capturing their reflections in the glass, with visitors in the shots, kind of “bringing them to life”. Hard to explain, but very cool, and it really does make you think about and feel the people that were lost.

Battambang: the Killing Caves

We went to the Killing Caves - in similar morbid style to the Killing Fields, these were caves where the Khmer Rouge threw Cambodian civilians into the caves and left them to die, if they had not already died from the fall.  The rock is actually still stained from all the blood shed at the time.