Phnom Penh Unveiled
Akshay, originally from Mumbai of India, has an interesting post with some stunning still images of the Cambodian capital. I’ve found my favorite way to travel in Phnom Penh is by cyclos. They’re the opposite of cycle-rickshaw in India as they pretty much resemble a wide wheel chair attached to a cycle. You just take...
Floating Villages in Pictures
Akshay at Trivial Matters has some good pictures of the Great Lake’s floating villages. I fell in love, of course, with the elemental power and beauty of the waterways of Cambodia. An entrancing waterlogged world, a stream so abundant and all-providing, a true river of life for its millions.
Cambodia in books
Blogger Andy Brouwer introduces two new books on Cambodia: ‘Images of Cambodia’ and ‘Bun’s Story – Tomorrow I’m Dead’. Dutch photographer and artist Eric de Vries loves Asia and you can see that love in his photographic books, one of which, Images of Cambodia was published by Cleartrails last year. The 200-page book has de...
Pagoda Painting in Cambodia
In 2001, Reyum Institute started a research project on paintings in Wats (Buddhist temples). The aim of the project was to photograph the mural paintings found in most Wats in Cambodia as well as collecting data about the temples through interviews. San Phalla, who just graduated from the Department of Archaeology in Phnom Penh, was...
To Cambodia with Love: a new guidebook
Travel writer Andy Broewer posted a press release on a to-be-published Cambodia guidebook, ‘To Cambodia with Love‘. As an editor himself, he’s been working with many people living and traveling throughout Cambodia. Some interesting travel notes from these people will be compiled for the new guidebook, one that differs from many others that include recommended...
Phnom Penh in heated April
In recent post of a photoblogger at mythicaldude, you’ll find some black and white pictures of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, taken in heat of April. Its too damned hot to be out in the mid-day sun right now in Cambodia, so other than a couple of hours of early morning or sunset light when...
Kampong Cham – Kampong Chet
Travel blogger Chel & Sois has an interesting post on a trip in Kampong Cham province in the mighty Mekong river delta, once an important trading town during the French occupation. We were only there for a day. Within this short time period we visited the local market and had some great food, but the...
Anything special in Battambang?
Began a song by Sin Sisamuth, Cambodia’s most well-known singer of all time. The song tells the lifestyle of Cambodians in Battambang, its beautiful nature, and its romantic scene. We stepped off the bus in Battambang, Cambodia’s second largest city. Motorbike taxi drivers waited to ferry us to our hotel. Normally, I would have rejected...
Cambodia's Tonle Sap in video
Chel & Sois posted an entry titled Special “Tuk-Tuk” Greetings !!!. In the post, the blogger featured a video clip of a trip on Tonle Sap, South-East Asia’s largest freshwater lake. To be a little more specific, Tonle Sap is actually a combination of a lake and a river system. This is system is very...
What's new in Phnom Penh
What Phnom Penh looks like two years ago? There are probably just too many things to describe. But here we go: I spent yesterday exploring Phnom Penh in a leisurely and somewhat disorganised fashion and got to see a few interesting things. Cambodia is exploding at the moment – more and more people are coming...
From Siem Reap to Kampot
Toshiro Yamaguchi jotted down her travel experiece from Cambodia’s most famous Siem Reap to sleepy town of Kampot, Keb. So I am quite pleased when she says she can come to Kep, then to Koh Tonsey with me the following day. Koh Tonsey is a small island on a remote shoe near Cambodian/Vietnamese border. The...
Sovanna Phum: Khmer art association in Cambodia
Blogger at ‘An MSW in Cambodia’ has an interesting post of her visit to Sovanna Phum, an independent Khmer art association in Phnom Penh. There, she enjoyed the show the treasures of Khmer culture (Shadow Puppet Theatre, Classical Dance, Folk Dance, Traditional Music, Theatre and Circus). In the post, you will also find pictures and...
