Category: Cambodia
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Video of our “Islands of the Mekong” bicycle tour in Phnom Penh
As written in our previous article, The Chaos of Phnom Penh, we did do a small bicycle tour organised by Grasshopper Adventures. Next to the many photos we had taken, I also had mounted a GoPro camera on the steering bar of the mountain bike. Though I little detail was forgotten: I forgot to charge the…
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The chaos of Phnom Penh
I guess entering any capital by bus on an afternoon is a disaster. Once again we suffered from Phnom Penh’s traffic. Arriving in the bus station 2 hours later than expected. We wanted to explore the capital of Cambodia before going to Vietnam. It had been a while since we shared our sleeping space with…
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Kep
Kep is very close to Kampot and technically can be done as a day trip from there or vice versa. I wanted to have some beach time, before we move to Vietnam. As Stijn did put his veto on Sihanouk ville, we decided to say few nights in Kep. Our chosen accommodation was Khmer Hands…
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Drive to Bokor National Park
A 1400 square kilometer National park that according to Wikipedia now hosts a ghost town, a location that was used in the move City of Ghosts. We did start our morning with a breakfast in Rikitikitavi in the center of Kampot. We asked them to prepare take-away sandwiches for our trip. We filled up…
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Relax in Kampot
Getting to Kampot To get to the riverside paradise once again we had to suffer the local buses. First the manager of our guest house had forgot that we will be taking a night bus to Kampot. The bus company was supposed to pick us up. It was pretty much last minute that the manager…
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Battambang, the real Cambodia
“Go to Battambang and you will see the real Cambodia” (Karl Grobl) We wanted to escape the tourism obsessed Siem Reap. The descriptions of Battambang promised colonial architecture at river side. A calm town? Sounds like a perfect destination for us! Circus We took a minibus from Siem Reap and arrived in our guest house…
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Temple hunting in Siem Reap
Since we were a little bit in love with Bangkok, in the airport we both had the same question in our minds: “do we really have to go to Siem Reap now?”. At some point we were not ready for Cambodia. Maybe because we had not done our research (as always). The getting on-arrival visa…