From Siem Reap to Battambang by boat
On ‘Lives of Wander’ blog, Jeff wrote about traveling to Battambang to Siem Reap by boat: But wanting to have the experience, we opted to take the boat from Siem Reap to Battambang, through floating villages and along some of the most scenic waterways of Cambodia. We were told it would last between five and...
Simplicity of Siem Reap
johnberkoski has a post about Siem Reap town, telling some little different about it from Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s largest capital city. However, upon tripping into the central market area, the scene was more reminiscent of a small-town version of Phnom Penh, albeit without as much dirt and visible poverty. The upstart of tourism in the...
Ancient Angkor Wat in Pictures
National Geographic has recently published some photo of Cambodia’s most famous Angkor Wat. The first photograph was taken by Glen Allison; the second one is an aerial view of the religious complex; the third and fourth is a computer illustration. In other news, a new research study on Angkor city, calling for Cambodia to be...
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...
