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The Price of Poverty: What the Poor Sacrifice Just to Survive
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 25 April 2012
Jen Truong | KF17 | Cambodia Poverty is terrible. It is unfair and merciless—I am certain many can agree to that. Often times people are born into it, other times poverty hits them out of nowhere, but the worst is when it oh so gradually creeps up into the lives of people absolutely undeserving of [...]
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Asia Travel – Angkor Wat in Cambodia
Blog: Two Backpackers - 19 April 2012
2 Backpackers - Asia Travel – Angkor Wat in Cambodia Subscribe Now -> http://feeds.feedburner.com/TwoBackpackersWhen you think of Asia travel, you think Angkor Wat. There are very few people that visit Cambodia without paying a visit to this World Heritage Site. Asia Travel I had often been transfixed by stunning images of these temples and was determined to explore them myself. Like many things, however, when a dream is realised, [...]
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Phnom Penh, I Love You!
Blog: Nomadic Matt's Travel Site - 4 February 2012
It was 2007 and I was only meant to be in Phnom Penh for three days. I had less than a month in Cambodia before I moved to Thailand and I wanted to explore as much as possible and get off the tourist trail a bit. But three days became four, and four became seven, [...]
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Vaguely Familiar Dude Reports on Phnom Penh Nightlife
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 30 January 2012
The pub is dark and grimy and does not smell like meat. I look up the bar and down the bar. I turn to a red-faced old dude clutching a glass of beer. “Hey, there’s not a roast here, is there?” He shakes his head long and slow. It’s Sunday and we’re feeling indulgent—indulgent enough [...]
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Never Never Land
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 3 January 2012
Any day you dont find yourself playing Russian Roulette in a Vietnamese prison cell can’t really be described as anything other than good. Whether or not today was going to be one of these days I was about to find out. By some strange, possibly deliberate, bureaucratic quirk on my Vietnamese visa I wasnt quite [...]
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A Not Entirely Atypical Tuk-Tuk Ride Home
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 20 November 2011
9pm so I give him a good stare down, check the eyes for red and glaze and drunkenness. I watch the way he walks to the tuk-tuk, parked a few feet away from where we’ve haggled the fare. He walks straight enough to drive straight, so I sigh and start to climb in. “Ok,” he [...]
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Orphans in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 23 September 2011
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Discover great travel photos.
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Bed Bugs & Vietnam's Government Hotels + Comments on Tourist Deaths in Chiang Mai
Blog: Fish Egg Tree - 21 August 2011
An adolescent bed bug, nearly full-grown.
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Cambodia: A Land of Ancient Triumph and Recent Tragedy
Blog: Living the Dream: RTW - 18 July 2011
Cambodia has had a turbulent past. Years of suffering under the Khmer Rouge have crippled the country, causing those affected to look further into the past to the greatness of Angkor. While the mighty Angkor history may provide solace and strength, will it be able to help these people navigate the future?
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The Young Leading The Blind: Phnom Penh Image
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 6 June 2011
This is the image I haven’t been able to get out of my head: There’s an instrument called tro. It’s kind of like a violin. It’s a traditional Khmer instrument and you hold it low, down by its belly, and you work the strings with your other hand, across your chest or near your neck, [...]
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C’Bodes: Phnom-inal Penh
Blog: Roasted Bugs and Sticky Rice - 12 May 2011
Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009 (things I like and recommend are bolded in case you readers ever go some day) As the adventure continued, I found myself on an express boat on lake Tonle Sap from Siem Reap headed south to Phnom Penh. $35 was steep for Cambodia, and the van that picked us up from [...]
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The Un-Bittersweet of Leaving Phnom Penh
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 11 April 2011
It’s not as bittersweet as I’d expected. It’s been six weeks in Phnom Penh. That’s the longest I’ve sat still anywhere—the longest I’ve spent consecutively in any city other than Oakland. I’m embarrassed to admit that; I feel like I should have lived abroad, should have studied abroad, should have spent a summer somewhere, should [...]
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The Bare Necessities
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 8 April 2011
By Stephanie Sibal, KF14, Cambodia It oftentimes begins with the aspiration of achieving something bigger: many enterprising Kiva borrowers request loans to start new ventures or expand businesses. Some rely on a Kiva loan to remedy a setback. However, not all borrowers take out loans with the intention of starting or growing a business. Coming [...]
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The Anti-Irony of Cambodian Fashion: The English-Language T-Shirt Edition
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 26 March 2011
“I like how cheesy it is, you know?” Mathilde said this morning, ashing her anorexic cigarette and looking across the street, at the teenagers hanging out at the Best Friend Cafe. Fake acid-wash skinny jeans, emo sideswiped hair-dos, bedazzled trucker hats positioned atop boys’ heads in a perch reminiscent of Abe Lincoln—the styles donned so [...]
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WTF Moment of the Day: Street Monkey
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 16 March 2011
So about once a day here in Phnom Penh I have a massive WTF moment. I’ve been catalouging them: a boy stabbing birds, Western beggars, my guesthouse posting a sign about not offering “the sex services,” and pretty much any occasion I open the Phnom Penh Post. Strange things, bizarre things that my Western brain [...]
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Piece by Piece: The Garment Worker’s Loan
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 16 March 2011
By Stephanie Sibal, KF14, Cambodia Gritty streets, massive white buildings, heavily-guarded gates. These are a part the outside view, the experience of someone blindly walking by a garment factory in Cambodia. About 20 kilometers out of Phnom Penh are Ta Khmao and Kandal Sleung, regions well-known for the numerous garment and apparel production factories there. [...]
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The Wild Guys conquer Cambodia
Blog: Siampedia - the wild years in Southeastasia - 12 March 2011
© Frank P. Schneidewind This trip with my Austrian friends started more like a nightmare. The ordered chauffeur for a planned 6 AM departure at our starting point near Bangkok, did leave us waiting and overslept his alarm clock. So he told us, when he finally showed up two hours late! 6 friends were [...]
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Two Cambodias
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 12 March 2011
“The Cambodian people are just so lovely.” You’re apt to hear this from other Westerners as you travel throughout Southeast Asia; you arrive in Phnom Penh and you’re apt to agree. A friendly, welcoming, almost shy demeanor, so vastly different from the brashness of their Vietnamese neighbors—it’s entracing, in a way, and a part of [...]
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Lost in Navigational Translation: The Tuk-Tuk and Motorbike Drivers of Phnom Penh
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 9 March 2011
“Tuk-tuk la-dee?” “La-dee, moto-bike!” “Where you go?” “La-dee, la-dee—you need moto-bike!” This is the chorus you hear, endlessly, walking through central Phnom Penh. It’s like birds chattering, only more jarring, less song-like. It comes accompanied with a raised arm, two fingers extended—more of a summons than an offering of service.
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(VIDEO) Tuol Sleng – Phnom Penh, Cambodia Ep.4 (1/2)
Blog: As We Travel - 6 March 2011
After our up and down trip through Laos – we headed down to Cambodia and to the capital of Phnom Penh. Cambodia has had a really dark and painful recent history, so while in Phnom Penh we decided to visit Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. Tuol Sleng ...(VIDEO) Tuol Sleng – Phnom Penh, Cambodia Ep.4 (1/2) - As We Travel - Around The World Travel Blog
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Dance, Dance, Evolution: Aerobic Dancing at the Olympic Stadium
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 6 March 2011
It’s dusk at the Olympic Stadium, and it feels like a festival. Vendors have set up stalls selling snack foods, beverages, trinkets. People in sweat clothes swarm. Cliche club dance music beats out of stereosystems and, lined up along the cement ring of the stadium’s top tier, little old ladies dance. It’s called Aerobic Dancing, [...]
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Not Your Normal Expat Scene: Khmer Kids Coming Back to Cambodia
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 4 March 2011
“This not your normal expat scene.” That’s all I kept thinking last night, as I stood sweating and stomach-sore in the crowd. I’d dragged myself out to a show, what was described to me as an all-girl indie rock band that sang in Khmer. Killer. No traveler’s flu would make me miss this. It was [...]
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Holiday in Cambodia: “Ugly Foreigners” At The Tuol Sleng Genoicde Museum
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 3 March 2011
Yeah, yeah, you knew it was coming: A sun-pressed afternoon and I’m walking through the dim cool rooms of the Tuol Slen Genocide Museum. The crumbling cells, the tangled barbed wire, the blood stains on the floor—none of it seems real. A bird flitted through the room of brick cells during our tour; a child [...]
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Phnom Penh: First Impressions, And An Open Letter
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 1 March 2011
I want to tell you that there’s life here. There are wide roads filled with motorbikes and tuk-tuks and more cars that I’d expected. There are smaller roads, lined with trees with soft pink flowers; there is laundry on the balconies. There are the umbrellas of the markets, the umbrellas of the monks—yellow above orange [...]
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Top 5 South East Asian Budget Airlines
Blog: The Travel Project - 12 January 2011
Here is my list of top 5 budget and no frills airlines in South East Asia that will help you travel to your next destination. Related posts:Flying with Strategic Airlines Etiquette Guide for Visiting Ethnic Villages in South East Asia
