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Cambodia Overview |
The name Cambodia is derived from the word Kambuja –meaning the sons of Kambu. According to legend Kambu, an ascetic, married a celestial nymph named Mera and founded the kingdom of Chenla. The neighboring Funan kingdom, the first Hindu State in Southeast Asia gained the kingdom of Chenla in the 6th century. This in effect was the precursor to the great Khmer Empire – the creators of the Angkor temple complex.
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Angkor Mystery |
The story of finding Angkor is a long sequence. With a retinue of bearers, eccentric French naturalist Henri Mouhot hacked his way through the Cambodian jungle in January 1860, in search of beetles and butterflies. Though his interest lay more in insects than antiquities, he spent three weeks exploring the ruins of Angkor. He arrived by way of Lake Tonle Sap, where, he noted, fish were so abundant that they impeded the progress of his boat.
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Siem Reap City |
Siem reap is the small gateway town to ruins of Angkor, located 250 northwest of Phnom Penh and 15 km north of Tonle Sap. Running through the centre of town is the polluted Siem Reap River. Traces of French presence have survived in a small quarter of colonial buildings to the southwest side, the rest of Siem Reap was badly damaged by boming and civil war.
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About Phnom Penh |
Phnom Penh does have an eccentric charm. Seen from the river, palm trees and the pagoda-like spires of Khmer royal buildings rise over French-era shophouses and villas. In the 1950s and 1960s this was one of the finest cities in Southeast Asia. The riverine city’s yellow-ocher buildings, squares and cafes, and frangipani-lined boulevards give it the atmosphere of a French provincial town.
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Cities Around Tonle Sap |
About Kampong Thom
Located 162km, north of Phnom Penh Capital on the way of RN6 to Siem Reap Angkor, Kompong Thom is one of the five provinces surrounding Tonle Sap Lake.
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Northwest Cambodia to Thailand |
Northwest Cambodia includes three provinces along border with Thailand. Battambang province used to be a very dangerous, heavily mined Khmer Rouge stronghold. On the Thai border is Pailin, a Khmer Rouge operated gem mining and logging center. Sales to Thailand of resources pulled from this area finance Khmer Rouge military activity.
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Central Cambodia |
Kampong Cham City
Phnom Pros & Phnom Srei: The name of the two hills translates as “Male hill” and “Female hill” respectively. Local legend has it that two teams, one of men and the other of women, toiled by night to be the first to construct a stupa on their summit by day-break. The women built a big fire, which the men took to be the rising sun and gave up work. The women, having won, no longer had to ask for the man’s hand in marriage. Phnom Srei has good views of the countryside during the wet season.
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East Cambodia to Vietnam |
Mondulkiri Province
Boo Sra Waterfall
Locates at Pich Chinda District in 43 kilometer distance from the provincial town by red soil road, Boo Sra is the most Beautiful waterfall in Modulkiri and shared into three stages:
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Northeast Cambodia to Laos |
Ratanakiri ProvinceBordering Vietnam’s central Highlands and Laos are the remote provinces of Ratanakiri and Mondulkiri, both with thickly forested hilly terrain, hilltribe people, and abundant wildlife. Commercial enterprises in the region include logging gem mining and rubber plantations. A fertile basalt plateau with red dusty soil lies between the Sesan and Srepok rivers.
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South Coastline Cambodia |
Because the Mekong was long Cambodia’s major thoroughfare, the coastal region never developed as a trade center. With the Vietnam War, however, Cambodia was forced to look for alternate routes. A sleepy fishing village and almost forgotten container port on Cambodia's short coastline, Sihanoukville became of enormous interest to the government in Phnom Penh in the sixties, when the usual trade routes up the Mekong were suddenly cut because of the Second Indochina War.
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Kep City |
The background of Kep City: Kep is the seaside-tourist city locating at Southwest of Phnom Penh; the city can be accessible by the National Road No 3 from Phnom Penh via Kampot province in 173-kilometer distance or by the National Road No 2 from Phnom Penh via Takeo province. It also can be accessible by rail from Phnom Penh to stop at Dam Nak Cham Eu station. Then continue more
seven Kilometers by a road to Kep City.
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