Phonm Penh - Siem Reap - Battambang - Phnom Penh - Sihanoukville - Koh Rong
Me and Doctor came from Singapore landed in Phnom Penh. For few days I've had problem to memorise and pronounce name of this city.
Cambodia
Cambodian visa are organised on arrival for 25USD Phnom Phem is busy asian city airport is in suburbs not as far from city center. There are many tuk-tuk's and taxis outside the airport best way is deal with them about the price mainly if you travel far for long time as i did. We've picked hotel round the corner from the main market. I wasn't much reading facebook statuses but suprise fof me was Dalibor other friend of mine came over to travel with us through Cambodia. We saw mainlaces and sightseeing in da city found best "Seeing hands" blind masseurs who were cheap and so good. After few days spent in Phnom Penh we moved north towards Siem Reap. Siem Reap is way smaller compared to Phomh Penh but even that the night live is quite wild but main thing close this town is Anchor Vat. The ruins of hughe temples of tge Khmer empire. This heritage site is so big spread into many big and small temples the most famous are the sun set temple ? The main temple the lake temple.. there are few options walk, hire tuk tuk for the day, get helicopter view for 90USD/pax, cycle around. To be honest cycle or walk around might kill you mainly if not fit as there is so hot most of the year. Dry and hot. We did the tuk tuk and helicopter and these. You can even find few snaps on my youtube channel. From Siem Reap we've gone to Battambang unfortunately there is not direct way cross the lake and we had to go all the way around. When compared price of bus and "mini bus" which in reality was a car this was more efficient and comfortable as there were only three of us on back seats and two others on passenger seat that means 6 in 5 seater wasn't as bad. Battambang is realy small town luckily with very good seeing hands masseurs again. Was told there used to be Coca-cola factory but the time we've arrived it gone and some other bulding was in thjis place I think. From Battambang we wanted to go directly down south west to Sihanoukville but same story again not direct roads and we had to go through Phnom Penh. We've explained that our driver later on the way and luckily met up his friend so we just jumped from first to second mini bus as we were late for the last bus/mini bus that day. We arrived to Sihanoukville early next morning as the trip took around 4.5h as there is not many main roads which are usually narrow jammed and also very ofter full of serious accidents. There was erratically driving jeep which passed us twice and the third time it was lying on the roof in the ditch. This time we've got ford transit size van sitting on the back seats durring the trip driver collected few other people and could here some noise and smell something strange. Just before the end of trip find out there were chicken in bag behind the seaters.
Sihanoukville was way better to Phomh Penh finally on the sea coast again. It was March sea was warm like cup of tea it was busy and party place beach loded by bars you could meet there backpackers from all around the world, majority were Aussie's and Canadians. Main Sihanoukville beach is about 5km away so it worth to hire a motorbike. During the day you'll find there some moto taxi guys but in the late afternoon you might have to walk it back. Other option is to hire an old US military style jeep. Once you in Sihanoukville go to jetty and get ticket to Koh Rong or Koh Rong Sanloem. There few scuba dive spots the further are better but if rough sea the way take longer. Koh Rong was so good you left ferry choked your flip flops next to jetty and walked towards your accommodation no road only ferry access just like small paradise. Full moon party is on the next island every month. If you want you can even hike over the hill to the remote side of island if you still want to see it but don't like hiking get boat taxi. We hiked over and return by boat taxi. You can hire windsurf kite or water flying shoes on Sihanoukville beach.
You can have rough idea about local prices once you know price of beer than you can compare. How much is beer in Cambodia?
Beer in Cambodia is 1.00$
What money use to pay in Cambodia?
You can have only US dollars in Cambodia and everything is all right because even the ATM's give you US Dollars.
TOP things to do in Cambodia
Visit Choeung Ek Genocidal Center Phnom Penh
Bike tours
Motorbike triip through the country
Royal Palace Phnom Penh
Angkor Vat
Angkor Thom
Battambang Bat Caves
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