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Cambodia

  • Population: 14.8 million (UN, 2005)
  • Capital: Phnom Penh
  • Area: 181,035 sq km (69,898 sq miles)
  • Major language: Khmer
  • Major religion: Buddhism
  • Life expectancy: 52 years (men), 60 years (women) (UN)
  • Monetary unit: 1 riel = 100 sen
  • Cambodia Daily – English-language
  • Phnom Penh Post – English-language

Road Junky has 26 Cambodia articles. Scroll down to view.

Cambodia Travel Guide Online

Cambodia is an odd country. Virtually no other society in recorded history can boast to have destroyed itself as thoroughly as Cambodia did during the 1970’s. Hundreds of thousands, and ...

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Genocide Tourism in Cambodia is Voyeuristic and Macabre

What happened in Cambodia in the 1970’s is almost beyond comprehension. Perhaps topping the list of 20th century mass murderers for psychopathic flair alone, Pol Pot reduced his country to ...

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Utterly Stoned On Happy Pizza in Cambodia

It was a fitting end to a wildly convoluted journey. I had been waiting in Trat, Thailand for several days, and had another week to linger before a flight that ...

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Teaching English in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

My new boss seemed quite nervous during the interview. His hands were shaking and he avoided eye contact, preferring to look at his computer screen or the ground instead of ...

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Meals On Wheels In Stung Meanchey, Phnom Penh

SOM CHO BEIE JOUR!’

This is my pleading request for 2 lines to 40 people in front of me. But the damp environment and limitations of my ...

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Dating Guys and Girls in Cambodia

Cambodia is at times an absurdly conservative society, especially in regard to male-female relationships. It is extremely rare for a Cambodian man and woman to show any kind of affection ...

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Happy Pizza and Cockfighting in Phnom Penh

I woke up on a Sunday morning in my cheap guesthouse on the lakeside bleary eyed and groggy. I swore to myself that I would start making real changes in ...

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The Traveler Ghetto of Phomn Penh, Cambodia

Cambodia was a rush of blood and strange chemicals into an already diseased mind. You simply couldn’t escape the perfect hedonism of the place. For $30 you could rent heavy ...

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Cambodia Travel Story - The Real Cambodia

There’s a huge hotel on one of the beaches, The Independence Hotel. It’s deserted and derelict. Marked down for demolition. I ask the Cambodians standing around the entrance selling soft ...

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Cambodia Train Surfing

Proper The Fugitive stuff, the movie I mean. Or could be from some old wild west flicks. Backs up the Cambodia wild west theme anyway.
The train ride from Cambodia’s ...

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Cambodia Border

One of the things I most love about Thailand is the unpredictability of the place. It is possible to go out at night for a beer–just one beer–and have an ...

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Riding the Bamboo Train - Cambodia Travel Story

Deep in the Cambodian jungle I was rewarded with the kind of experience only those who wander fall afield can find.

Locals call it the Norry Train, but to everyone else ...

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