We never expected to spend eight weeks in Phnom Penh, or for that matter, ten weeks in Cambodia, but COVID-19 gave us an opportunity. If we had to be “stuck” in a SE Asian country, we think we landed in a good spot, especially based on the more Draconian measures set forth in neighboring Thailand and Vietnam. The Cambodian government,…
Before COVID shut down all the tourist sights in Phnom Penh, we went to the Tuolsleng Genocide Museum, followed by the Killing Fields, one of only 343 known sites where thousands of Cambodians were executed by their own people during the 1975-1979 Genocide. Three million of Cambodia’s eight million died during this tragic regime. This is when the Khmer Rouge…
Kampot is a coastal city on the Preaek Tuek Chhu River in southern Cambodia. We’d had our eyes on heading there for several weeks so it felt good to finally get the opportunity to hop on a totally empty, A/C blasted, $8/ticket mini bus for the three-hour jaunt out of Phnom Penh. Although the area is most widely known for…
After a week in Siem Reap, we were ready to get off the grid and experience authentic village life in Cambodia. Our original plan had included heading to Kratie in central Cambodia to stay in the countryside for two weeks volunteering to teach English to village kids. Unfortunately, thanks to COVID, our plans got upended, so we opted instead to…
It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve seen it in movies or pictures, getting a glimpse of the UNESCO world heritage site of Angkor Wat in person rendered us both speechless. An awe took over our bodies with seeing something so truly magnificent, practically turning us to jelly. But Angkor Wat is so much more than just one temple complex,…
Thailand/Cambodia Poipet Border Crossing We bust through another border! After all the reading and blog watching we’d done about the Poipet border, we actually thought it was going to be a challenging one so we made sure to get an e-visa online and not do a visa on arrival. By doing this, you can just bypass the touts with their…
