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SIGHTSEEING IN CAMBODIA
The Kingdom of Cambodia is one of the world's newest
and most exciting travel destinations. After almost
25 years of isolation, Cambodia opened to tourists
in the mid-1990s and tourists numbers have increased
every year since - last year the country seeing more
than a million tourists. Cambodia’s primary tourist
destinations - Angkor Wat and the other temples of
Angkor near Siem Reap, the cultural attractions in
the capital Phnom Penh, and the beaches of
Sihanoukville - offer plenty of accommodations,
restaurants and other tourist services.
Other destinations such as the hill tribe areas of
Ratanakiri and Mondulkiri, the remote temples of
Preah Vihear and Banteay Chhmar, and quaint
provincial capitals such as Battambang and Kampot,
are just now being discovered by travelers, and all
offer unique glimpses of ‘unspoiled’ Cambodia.
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Angkor Wat - 7th World
Wonder
Angkor Wat is visually,
architecturally and
artistically breathtaking.
It is a massive three-tiered
pyramid crowned by five
lotus-like towers rising 65
meters from ground level.
Angkor Wat... |
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Phnom Penh
City - French Colonial City
The capital of the
Kingdom of Cambodia, Phnom
Penh, is located at the
confluence of three rivers -
the Mekong, the Bassac and
Tonle Sap. The city is
divided into three
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Battambang - Rice Field
Town
Cambodia’s second largest
city lies in the heart of
the Northwest and until the
war years was the leading
rice producing province of
the country. Battambang did
not give way to the Khmer
Rouge... |
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Sihanoukville - Pristine Beach
As much a beach town as it
is a port town, catering to
beach-going weekenders from
Phnom Penh as well as a steadily increasing number
of foreign visitors. Still,
the pace of life in Sihanoukville...
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Kampot - Taste of Cambodian
Sea Foods
As much a beach town as it
is a port town, catering to
beach-going weekenders from
Phnom Penh as well as a steadily increasing number
of foreign visitors. Still,
the pace of life in Sihanoukville...
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Kampong Thom - The home of
Sambo Prei Kuk
The ancient city where
monuments of Sambo Prei Kuk
are found today was
identified as ISANAPURA, the
capital of Chenla in 7th
century. Chenla was a former
vassal of the Funan
kingdom... |
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Rattanakiri - Minorities
land
Rattanakiri
is situated on the north -
east plateau , 636 Km from
Phnom Penh. It is bordering
Vietnam on the east, Laos
PDR on the North, Steung
Treng on the West and Mondul
Kiri on the South...
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Cambodia is a land of superlatives. The
ancient temples of Angkor Wat, Bayon and other ruins
of the Khmer Empire rank amongst the world's
grandest and most magnificent World Heritage Sites -
easily in a class with Machu Picchu, the Pyramids of
Egypt and Teotihuacan. But this magnificence stands
in shocking contrast to the Killing Fields, Toul
Sleng Genocide Museum and other remnants of
Cambodia's more recent history - a time when Pol Pot
and the Khmer Rouge regime of the late 1970s
committed some of the most horrifying atrocities of
the 20th century. Yet, the Khmer people, who make up
more than 95% of modern Cambodia's population,
impress visitors as some of the friendliest,
'happiest' (sabbai), and most gentle people they
have ever met. The ubiquitous Khmer smile is
legendary, as is traditional Khmer hospitality and
openness. Cambodia is truly a land of light and
dark, of wonder and of tragedy - awe-inspiring,
heart wrenching and completely unique.
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