Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Cambodia (Phnom Penh) Jan 2014

Map of Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Total expenses incurred (3 days): US$77 (Rm$253)
Hotel (Mad Monkey): US$10 x 2 nights = US$20
Food: US$21
Entrance fees: US$6 (Killing Field) + US$3 (Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum) + 25,000vnd (The Royal Palace)
Tuktuk: US$12 (1/2 day tour to Killing Field, Genocide Museum & Central Market)
Bus: US$11 (Phnom Penh>Ho Chi Minh)
Exchange rate: US$1=6,000

 

1) Border crossing at Moc Bai between Cambodia & Vietnam

US$11 for a 6hr bus ride
HCM > Phnom Penh
Border check point
A casino near the border

2) R & R stop at a Cambodian border town after the immigration clearance - lunch & toilet run !


3) Ferry crossing near a Cambodian border

15 mins ferry crossing

3) Independence MonumentNorodom Boulevard, Phnom Penh, Cambodia


4) King Norodom Sihanouk MonumentNorodom Boulevard, Phnom Penh, Cambodia


5) Cambodian Vietnam Friendship MonumentNorodom Boulevard, Phnom Penh, Cambodia






6) Royal Palace & Silver Pagoda, Phnom Penh, Cambodia - visited twice this Royal Temple, one in the late afternoon & another in the following morning ! 


7) National Museum, Phnom Penh, Cambodia


9) Wat Ounalom, Phnom Penh, Cambodia


10) Tonle Sap Riverfront, Phnom Penh, Cambodia


11) Central Market, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

 
 
 

12) Russian Market, Phnom Penh, Cambodia


13) Phnom Penh Train Station, Cambodia


14) Walkabout in Phnom Penh city centre, Cambodia


15) Killing Field of Choeung Ek, Phnom Penh, Cambodia


15) Toul Sleng Museum, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

The Gallows

16) Cambodian food I tasted in Phnon Penh - yummy yummy ! 

US$1.5 for a bowl of pork offal noodle
US$2 for a bowl of pork leg noodle
US$2 for a continental breakfast
US$5 for a lunch plus drink

18) Hostel accommodation (2 nights) - The Mad Monkey Hostel, Bldg 26, St 302, BKK1, Phnom Penh.

free one glass of beer for our hotel stay
US$5 for Khmer curry chicken
& US$3 for pork
Beware ! Cambodian workers on strikes & demos in PP
US$20 for a twin private en suite room

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