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Kampong Cham part IV: Phnom Pros and the village of Cheungkok
Phnom Pros and Phnom Srei, which translate respectively as man hill and woman hill (you can read the legend behind these names here), are situated at approximately 7 kilometers out of Kampong Cham on...
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Phnom Penh: inside the Russian market
Psah Toul Tom Poung, also known as Russian market, is a buzzing spot located out of the mainstream tourist trail, south of Mao Tse Tung boulevard, in Cambodia’s capital city Phnom Penh. This covered...
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Cambodian Kickboxing – An afternoon in Phnom Penh
I’m in Siem Reap to visit the Angkor temples. As I enter a random restaurant for breakfast, a television is broadcasting a kickboxing match. I approach the young guy who’s watching it and, having seen...
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Phnom Penh: S21 and the Killing Fields
This afternoon I watched a movie, “the Killing Fields”, a true story about the Khmer Rouge regime, New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg and his Cambodian friend and interpreter, journalist Dith...
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Koh Rong Samloem and the laziest beach ever
On a cold, rainy winter day, how many times do you fantasize about quitting your job and escaping to a tropical island? Two Brits did it for real a few years ago. They left cold and foggy London, went...
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A trip to Kampot
After spending a couple of wonderful days in a tropical paradise on an island off the coast of Sihanoukville (you can check the pictures on our facebook page and on this post), we faced a dilemma:...
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Monkey vs. dog
A few weeks ago when we were in Kampong Cham, Cambodia, we rented a motorbike and went to visit Phnom Pros, a temple on a hill a few kilometers out of town. There are many monkeys hanging around the...
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Kampong Cham part I: the Khmer wedding anniversary
During our stay in Cambodia we went to Kampong Cham twice because I have a friend who is currently working for an NGO and is based there. Our first time was a hit and run type of visit: we went for...
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Kampong Cham part II: out and about taking pictures
As I said in my previous post (Kampong Cham part I: The Khmer wedding), we ended up staying in Kampong Cham more than planned. We got caught into this sleepy town’s unadulterated charm, where apart...
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Kampong Cham part III: the bamboo bridge and Koh Paen
Koh Paen, sometimes written also as Kaoh Pan, is an island in the Mekong. During the dry season the island can be accessed through a bamboo bridge, situated a couple of kilometers south of Kampong...
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