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Stories about Culture in Phnom Penh

Cambodian silk industry on its last threads

Agence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,579]

Cambodia's silk industry in trying to save its precious silkworms and keep centuries-old traditions alive...

Destinations: Phnom Penh
Topics: Culture
Inside the National Museum court yard.  Visitors are not allowed to photograph the statuary housed inside the building.

Distant Relatives in Flesh and Stone

peter barnes - pdbarnes [375]

The National Museum seemed like a good place to get our cultural bearings. And it was, meaning it was the first in a long line of the unexpected in Cambodia.

Destinations: Phnom Penh | Cambodia
Topics: Culture | Economy | Travel | People | Photography | Art | War & Conflict | Ancient History
One of the Quay Hotel's many killer breakfasts.  This is a divine combination of banana pancakes, peanut praline sauce and dollop of butter lightly altered mysterious and French ways.

Courteous Chaos on the Streets

peter barnes - pdbarnes [375]

Cambodia is changing fast. The genteel disregard for traffic rules may not last long. For the moment it is an image of a nation getting things done with insufficient horsepower.

Destinations: Phnom Penh | Cambodia
Topics: Economy | Culture | Travel | Photography | People
Preparing for early morning fishing  on the river.

The Completely Naked Lady

peter barnes - pdbarnes [375]

Is it unusual for a woman to be nude in public before dawn? Wait - is that a woman or not? What an interesting place Phnom Penh is!

Destinations: Phnom Penh
Topics: Culture | People
Working the River in Phnom Penh

People and Places in Phnom Penh

Ian Miller - fusion07 [255]

Phnom Penh in many ways is a thriving and vibrant city, with its many Old Colonial French buildings and great night life. I have visited it many times and absolutely love the place.

Destinations: Phnom Penh | Cambodia
Topics: Culture | Travel | People | Photography | Architecture
Cambodian's young - Their ticket to a brighter future. Bopha from COSI Orphanage.

A Ticket to Hope - Cambodia

Lee Alvin - oldyonfoldy [801]

A returned visit to the capital city of the "Wild wild east" of South East Asia led me to discover new hope for Cambodia's future through her warm and remarkable young people. Its a city bravely...

Destinations: Phnom Penh | Cambodia | Angkor
Topics: Culture | Food | Economy | People | 20th Century History | Shopping | War & Conflict | Architecture
Fishing boat on the Tonlé Sap River

A Day on Sisowath Quay

Graham Simmons - gsimmons [5,378]

It was with some trepidation that I ventured to visit Sisowath Quay, after an absence of a few years. Phnom Penh's main riverside boulevard was in my memory little more than a dusty lane, a...

Destinations: Phnom Penh | Cambodia
Topics: Culture | Travel | Art

Monastery on the Hill of Lady Penh, and other Cambodian Stories

Phuong Tran - ptran [311]

Phnom Penh My sister and I were the only non - Khmer passengers on the bus from Vietnam to Cambodia. Operated by Tourist T & T Trading, we were to cross through Moc Bai in the south of Vietnam, the...

Destinations: Phnom Penh | Cambodia
Topics: Culture | Travel
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