Cambodia Travel Guide The Bayon Temple of Angkor Thom in Cambodia. In the late 1990s, Cambodia emerged from nearly two decades of civil war in the wake of the Vietnam conflict. What started in a trickle of adventurous travelers turned into a steady flow of package tourists.
Phnom Penh Shopping The Central (French) Market in Phnom Penh Phnom Penh is a great place to shop, with options ranging from name brand clothing to art and antiques. There are a number of markets around town, but the two of most interest to tourists are the Central Market and the Russian Market.
Phnom Penh Travel Guide The reviewing stand / dance pavillion of the Royal Palace of Phnom Penh Cambodia's capital retains much of its former colonial charm, with old houses along tree-lined boulevards. Although many people simply stop off in Phnom Penh on their way to Siem Reap and Angkor Wat, or even bypass it entirely for a direct flight to Angkor, to do so is to miss out on something special.
Siem Reap Town Beautiful downtown Siem Reap, near the old market. Siem Reap is the town closest to the ruins of Angkor Wat, although it's more than just a place to sleep and catch a plane. The city has developed into one of the more pleasant tourist towns in Cambodia, if not Southeast Asia.
The POSH Guide to Angkor Wat & Siem Reap The eastern causeway entrance to Preah Khan temple. The capital of the Khmer kingdom in northwestern Cambodia remains one of the most outstanding legacies of the ancient world. Many have the impression that Angkor Wat is a single temple, when in fact there are more than 40 sites still recognizable to this day.
The POSH Mini-Guide to Kampot and Kep The wide lazy river flowing past Kampot The rather sleepy old port of Kampot and its neighbor Kep don't seem to have caught on with the tourists, which is just as well. A big part of the charm of these two towns is that they're quiet and still relatively unspoiled by the vagaries of mass tourism.
The Roluos Group Bakong temple from just inside the main gate. Before Angkor Wat was built, before the Khmer capital was was moved to the area around Phnom Bakeng, the center of the kingdom was located around the present-day village of Roluos, about 12 kilometers (7 1/2 miles) from Seam Reap.