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Why I Loved Backpacking Cambodia And Didn’t Want to Leave

AnnaApril 29, 2020October 4, 2023

When I decided that after 2 years of backpacking the world I needed to settle down a bit. It was a choice between Cambodia and Goa in India. Goa won but Cambodia still has a special place in my heart and is somewhere that I still dream of returning to.......

Blown Away by the Temples of Angkor, Cambodia

AnnaJune 2, 2017October 26, 2024

I stand, thighs aching, and catch my breath after a scarily steep climb, experiencing vertigo standing on top of an impossibly high, pyramid mountain of temples. I feel the wind in my hair as I survey the crumbling, yet still impressive ruins below me, alongside a weathered statue of a......

All Aboard Cambodia’s Bamboo Train!

AnnaMarch 10, 2014September 12, 2023

The train rattled and jolted as it speed with a deafening sound along the warped single gauge line through the undergrowth, scraping my bare arms as I sit crossed legged as it clatters on, slowing down ever so often to allow a cow to wander across the track or to......

Koh Rong, Cambodia’s Backpacker Paradise Island

AnnaFebruary 25, 2014July 27, 2025

All across Southeast Asia I heard the same 2 words whispered over and over again by backpackers and travelers – “Koh Rong.” The whispers told of an undeveloped paradise island in Cambodia, like something out of Alex Garland’s classic novel ‘The Beach’, a unspoilt tropical paradise island that was like......

Phnom Penh: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

AnnaFebruary 6, 2014August 1, 2023

Cambodia’s Capital: Phnom Penh I wasn’t sure what to expect from Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh. A city dubbed ‘The Pearl of Asia’ during the days of French Indochina but also a place forcefully evacuated by the brutal and extreme madness of the bloody Khmer Rouge regime of 1975 – 1979. Exploring......

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Tag : Cambodia

Why I Loved Backpacking Cambodia And Didn’t Want to Leave

Blown Away by the Temples of Angkor, Cambodia

All Aboard Cambodia’s Bamboo Train!

Koh Rong, Cambodia’s Backpacker Paradise Island

Phnom Penh: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

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