| Page Views: 4,068 Last Visit to Phnom Penh: August, 2003 | A stop on the way by SirRichard - last update: Sep 22, 2003 |
The Royal Palace and the Museum Despite being the capital, I didn't find Phnom Penh specially attractive.
It's got a few highlights, but it was definetly not my kind of town...
Once there U shouldn't miss the Royal Palace and the National Museum, but even those are not real musts: If you have seen Bangkok's Palace, this is a small version. And if you have seen Angkor, you will find in the museum more of the same stuff: some of the statues in Angkor are replicas and here you will find the originals. |
|  | A big village Anyway, if you go by bus you will have to pass by PP, and is a good basecamp, asyou can easily reach from here other parts of the country.
The streets are wide and not very noisy, but rather unappealling. |
The horror!! Being the main city in Cambodia, PP was the main goal for Red Khmers's Revolution, and most of its metropolitan population ended up in the rice fields... or in concentration camps. You can see the infamous "Killing Fields" near PP, and imagine the horror it must have been... and it was not so long ago, from 1975 to 1978!! | | |
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roamer61 Sat Sep 22, 2007 13:18 UTC
Great page Joaquin. Will of course stop here when I eventually get to see Angkor. | lmc2626 Wed Oct 26, 2005 07:46 UTC
can you please tell me or summarize how's you travel in cambodia, is it worth going to be there?? | euzkadi Thu Jun 16, 2005 08:03 UTC
Creo que he visto algo sobre ti en El País, si el diario con la acuarelas...Bueno pues te hare caso y visitaré el Mundo de las Tinieblas... | SumTingWong Wed Feb 11, 2004 03:05 UTC
Excellent page, great info as well. I really agree with your descriptions of Phnom Penh, not the most attractive city, but it was good for two days or so. Well done! |
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