Destination: Cambodia
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Tue, 20 Mar 2007 | By homeless_harry | Views [14881] | Comments [4]
Sihanoukville has been exposed! No other place has seen such an astronomical increase in everything undesirable, and I aim to expose as much as has been exposed to me. Exposed as naive were my claims that Sihanoukville would enjoy controlled and responsible ... Read more >
Tags: sightseeing
Tue, 6 Nov 2007 | By scholarships | Views [10481]
Do you dream about being an intrepid journalist seeking out stories from remote parts of the world? Then here is the opportunity for you! Go on assignment to The Fred Hollows Eye Camp, Kampong Thom, Cambodia Applications close: January ... Read more >
Tags: travel scholarship, podcast, cambodia, fred hollows, intrepid, angkor, 2008, world nomads
Wed, 16 May 2007 | By jakeandgenny | Views [5177] | Comments [1]
As the sun breaks the horizon and paints the world in shades of pink and purple, the ruins before us are all at once illuminated by the first rays of morning. With the sun behind the ruins of Angkor Wat , we stand in the shadow of the ancient ruins ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Fri, 9 Mar 2007 | By homeless_harry | Views [4206] | Comments [2]
29 hours. 3 buses. 1 border crossing. 2 missed meals. 11 lady finger bananas eaten. 600 baht saved. 1 sore, sleepless and shitty traveler. Again the open road beguiled me, and rewarded my love of its exciting unpredictability with another ass pounding ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Wed, 24 May 2006 | By simon_monk | Views [2701]
Having travelled widely, I have firm beliefs in the positives of the travel experience in getting people to be a little more compassionate towards one another. Racism, intollerance and war are all harder to propigate when you have experienced local hospitality ... Read more >
Tags: philosophy of travel, children, racism, ignorance, culture
Tue, 2 Jun 2009 | By language-guides | Views [2559] | Comments [2]
Have you ever been stuck in a country wanting to be polite, but
not even knowing the word for 'please'? Or been frustrated when you
couldn't ask for the most basic directions to where you're going?
The WorldNomads.com Khmer Language Guide ... Read more >
Tags: learn khmer, learn cambodian, cambodia, language guide, iphone, ipod, mp3 player, cambodian phrases
Sat, 26 May 2007 | By catherine_and_james | Views [2248] | Comments [1]
Think of the most smelly, dirty place you've ever been. Then add razor wire through the rubbish and add 160 kids. This was the orphanage we visited in Phnom Penh. Pretty grim. It was amazing to talk to the kids who have made it to high school in these ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Tue, 7 Mar 2006 | By tjwhale | Views [1693] | Comments [2]
Hello again. I want to start this message with a few comments and stories on the topic of massage. They're wierd...in a lot of respects...particularly in different countries. I've just had 3 different experiences with massage...one funny, one gross, ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Mon, 14 May 2007 | By catherine_and_james | Views [1683] | Comments [1]
You know what a tuk tuk is? A little trailer like thing with seats pulled along by a motorbike. They can be very handy for taking you to a temple a few kms away. And they are very handy for employing lots of local people. I counted 6,000 drivers in Siem ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Thu, 1 May 2008 | By scholarships | Views [1656] | Comments [4]
Our intrepid reporter, and recipient of the 2008 Podcast Documentary Scholarship has returned from Cambodia! Kylie Stephenson went on assignment to Cambodia and spent 3 days in a remote Fred Hollows eye camp. Under mentorship from ABC radio journalist ... Read more >
Tags: podcast, scholarship, cambodia, fred hollows foundation, 2008, world nomads
Fri, 5 Jan 2007 | By thedukeoearl | Views [1515] | Comments [1]
Hey there party people. Happy 2007 again. Here is my latest travel news. Almost three weeks in Cambodia. It was an interesting experience, heart wrenching at times and overhwelmingly impressive at others. The history is definately not boring and ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Fri, 6 Feb 2009 | By positive_footprints | Views [1477] | Comments [2] | Video
Having watched every other amazing episode of Positive Footprints being shot, edited and pushed out to the world, I couldn't help but feel the need to be more involved. After some budget bashing, unnecessary auditioning ( I so should've been in ... Read more >
Tags: worldnomads.com, positive footprints, footprintsnetwork.org, cambodia, cambodia travel, world expeditions, world nomads, community projects, volunteer travel
Thu, 7 Feb 2008 | By sl0ggs | Views [1422] | Comments [5]
Tuesday morning the four of us ( David and Bex , a couple out of Vancouver, Canada & Joanie , a lone traveler also from Canada) got a tuktuk driver for the day and set off to tour the temples. (There are clickable links in the text to my pictures, ... Read more >
Tags: sightseeing, walking, history
Sat, 19 Feb 2005 | By crustyadventures | Views [1379] | Comments [6]
Bubble tea is not a local delight that I’ll return for in a hurry. Just
what are those globules of brown tacky goo at the bottom of my drink?
Not unpleasant in flavour (not much flavour to describe really!); but
the fact that they get sucked up the ... Read more >
Tags: food
Sat, 1 Mar 2008 | By jeffbrad | Views [1373]
Wed 27th Feb - Picked up by Sawngthaew from hotel at 8am to go to meeting point for VIP bus. What a joke....turned out to be an 18 seater minibus that was almost full when I got there, so I ended up with one of the fold-up seats in the aisle. Would ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Fri, 8 Feb 2008 | By sl0ggs | Views [1203] | Comments [5]
Me and the gang moved from Siem Reap on to Cambodian capital, Phnom Pehn on Friday. we decided to try the ferry as an interesting trip, rather than another long bus ride. I didn't look into prices though, and the bus ride would have been loads cheaper! ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Mon, 19 Nov 2007 | By greenalligator | Views [1172] | Comments [3]
My $4 bus ride to Phnom Penh was a grueling one. No air con, a bus driver with an obsessive compulsive horn tooting disorder and a mother with her 10 shopping bags and her 5 year old daughter munching on a bag of crickets pressing me up against the ... Read more >
Tags: people
Fri, 18 Feb 2005 | By crustyadventures | Views [1140]
The dish with no official name, not being on any menu – merely a
concoction thown together by some generous women hosts at a small
roadside cafe near the Ream naval base. They looked at us quizzickly
when we asked for some food. The request was fine ... Read more >
Tags: food
Tue, 15 Feb 2005 | By crustyadventures | Views [1105]
It’s inevitable that one of my travel obsessions to make it in words
in going to be food. Cambodia does not disappoint on this front and
i’ll need to upload some photos to bring all the colour to life. This
is just a small snippet from a market foray ... Read more >
Tags: food
Sun, 11 Mar 2007 | By hutch07 | Views [1087] | Comments [3]
Greetings from Cambodia all you good, good people. This place rocks like a big rocky rock, rocking up at a rock concert whilst eating a stick of rock. It has surprised us and charmed us in equal measure, and it's a place we'd love to return to as there ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Wed, 23 Feb 2005 | By crustyadventures | Views [1005] | Comments [2]
Damn! That malaria pill is still in my pocket. I must take it
sometime today. After all it cost me a small fortune to visit the GP
and buy all the tablets – they came in very unhelpful packs of 7… The
pharmacist presented me with about 11 little ... Read more >
Tags: doctors, hospitals & health
Tue, 15 May 2007 | By catherine_and_james | Views [970]
Goodbye Laos...Hello Cambodia! First stop was the poorly advertised but very interactive War Museum. Rows and rows of old tanks, artillery and other combat vehicles and weapons were laid out surrounded by huts with smaller arms and information. The ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Tue, 4 Mar 2008 | By jeffbrad | Views [970]
Sat 1st Mar - Had a nice meal at the 'Dead Fish Tower' restaurant in the evening. Buil almost like a warehouse inside, with platforms on many levels. Food and drinks are delivered between levels using trays, pulleys and ropes. A central platform ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Sun, 18 Feb 2007 | By all_powered_up | Views [944] | Comments [1]
A 6.5 hour bus journey at the back of the bus. You don't want to be at the front because that's where you will die, and you don't want to be at the back because that's where i had no leg room and you get the most bumps. Lets say i was glad to arrive ... Read more >
Tue, 29 Nov 2005 | By hen_and_dika | Views [916] | Comments [3]
Hi everyone, We just returned from Cambodia. It was amazing! The people were wonderfull and very friendly. In many ways, it has been the highlight of our trip. There are no words to truly describe the capital ciy of the Khmer Empire, Angkor. Although ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
