Archive for the 'Cambodia' Category

Southern Coast of Cambodia

Fast becoming one of the hottest tourist destinations in Southeast Asia is Cambodia. After years of being torn by civil war and an isolationist government policy, Cambodia has now emerged into a must—see destination for travelers who want to experience the real Asia.
Cambodia has a lot more to offer than the majestic ruins of Angkhor [...]

Phnom Penh, Cambodian City

Cambodia was a strange land to me until my mother dragged me along on her trip there to visit her sister. Our destination: Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia.
Like most countries, Cambodia also requires a visa to enter the country, however, we got our visa when we arrived at the Siem Reap Airport for $20 [...]

Cambodia, Angkhor Wat and Angkhor Tom

The area now known as Cambodia (once known as Kampuchea) was once occupied by the Khmer Empire, a powerful, visionary and ancient dynasty that flourished in the 6th — 15th centuries.
Recent history has been less kind to the country, culminating in the devastating Kampuchean holocaust instigated by Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge in 1975 which led [...]

On a January afternoon in 1861, Henri Mouhot, a French naturalist, was hacking his way through the almost impenetrable jungle of Cambodia when suddenly he burst into a clearing and stopped dead in his tracks. Before his astonished eyes loomed the outlines of a stone structure. Its long grey battlements appeared to stretch into infinity, [...]


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