For dates and a full list of festivals in Cambodia click HERE! A three day* festival enjoyed by the whole country, where crowds flock to select destinations & homelands to celebrate with their friends & relatives. Many tourists and ex-pats avoid any travel during this holiday as the whole country is on the move, it…
Kampong Pluk is one of four villages within traveling distance from Siem Reap on the shores of the Tonle Sap , the biggest natural lake in South East Asia. The others are Mechrey, one of our favorite places in Cambodia, the beautiful and biggest village of Kampong Kleang with it’s abundance of local culture. The fourth is Chog Kneas which…
For dates and a full list of festivals in Cambodia click HERE! Chinese new year celebrations, also known as Spring Festival, starts on the evening preceding the new moon of the first lunar month & runs until the full moon, coinciding with Tet, the Vietnamese new year. In Cambodia, this festival is not a public…
Travelling on a budget? Heres a few inexpensive gift ideas with a personal touch found around the countryside close to Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Plam Sugar Palm sugar (khmer: skor tnot) comes in various forms, in jars or individual sweets. It is made from the sap or the palm trees, which is boiled, reduced to a…
For dates and a full list of festivals in Cambodia click HERE! Over the years, many reasons have been used to cancel this event. If the main races in Phnom Penh do not go ahead, I expect many smaller races throughout the provinces of Cambodia, including Siem Reap. The dates are public holidays so expect…
Kampong Khleang is one of four villages within traveling distance from Siem Reap on shores of the Tonle Sap , the biggest natural lake in South East Asia. The others are Kampong Phluk, fast becoming popular with its Mangrove Forest, the beautiful village of Mechrey that moves with the water levels. The fourth is Chog Kneas…
Vassa, three month Buddhist rains retreat. For dates and a full list of festivals in Cambodia click HERE! Vassa, sometimes called rains retreat, is a three month retreat beginning on the first day of the waning moon of the eighth lunar month, normally around the end of July. For the three months, the…