One of the biggest draws to Cambodia’s second largest city is the Battambang Bamboo train. Now a glorified tourist attraction, the train gives an insight of how people used to transport goods from Battambang to Phnom Penh. A massive sigh of relief rippled across Cambodia when in January, the government had finally announced that the bamboo train was back … Read more
No trip to Battambang is complete without a visit to Phnom Sampeau which is approximately 15km outside of the main city. This sacred mountain has a dark side – the Battambang killing cave was used by the Khmer Rouge to throw dead bodies down after they had been murdered. This dark side of Cambodian history … Read more
The first out of the ordinary thing I did this Christmas was fly on Christmas day to Cambodia.The second was to plunge straight into dark Cambodian history on the Phnom Penh Killing fields tour. Hereās a run down of what this tour is really like. Is it worth visiting the Phnom Penh killing fields? How … Read more
