Unwrapped travel

We’ve just added another feature into our How Do I? series. Of all the border crossings in the region, the overland crossing between Cambodia and Laos has been one of the most changeable. In some ways, the Veun Kham / Dom Kralor has all the ingredients of a pain in the posterior crossing — corrupt [...]

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The smart cookies over at Brave New Traveller have put together a good little video about both Choeung Ek and S21 that capture the two sites very nicely — well worth a look.

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The smart cookies over at Khmer 440 have an interesting story on a Khmer Rouge tunnel prison outside Kompong Chhnang — something we’d never heard of. So, if you find yourself in Kompong Chhnang with nothing to do, please check it out and let us know all about it!

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TravelDailyNews reports that Korean Air has launched seasonal flights between Seoul and Phnom Penh and also plans to launch direct services to Siem Reap. The new flights will operate for the winter season until 24 March 2007.

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We’ve just added another feature in our “How do I?” series, this time covering one of SE Asia’s more infamous routes, the Bangkok to Siem Reap overland trip. Read on to get all the information you’ll need including timetables and pricing information — Bangkok Siem Reap Overland.

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TTR reports that Cambodia’s tourist numbers have surged for H1 of 2006 with South Koreans forming the largest group.
Total arrivals rose by over 19% to over 800,000 with almost 35% of all visitors arriving at Siem Reap. Koreans were the largest group, weighing in at just under 150,000 in total. The next largest group, [...]

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If you’re looking for trackless forest and untamed wilderness, the best advice is usually to head to northern Thailand, or better yet, northern Laos. But just an hour away from Phuket, lie two islands where KFC has yet to even think of opening up its doors, where dirt roads turn unexpectedly into cow paths before [...]

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Phnom Penh has a broad range of places to stay, spread across the entire city — this feature, What is a good guesthouse in Phnom Penh, looks at all the main areas of the city and recommends the best places to stay for most budgets. Read more about Phnom Penh guesthouses and hotels here.

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The IHT reports that one of the oldest and largest of the monuments within Angkor Thom, the Baphuon is to reopen after a decades-long renovation finally comes to a close. The renovation, which took some 50 years and was delayed due to the Khmer Rouge period involved putting together some 300,000 stones — talk about [...]

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The Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has recently launched an e-Visa programme that enables travellers to apply for their Cambodian visas online. With this new service, applicants are able to obtain a visa in 3 days, with just a few clicks.
To apply for an e-Visa, applicants need to have a passport [...]

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