Cambodia - Phnom Penh

Subject: Cambodia - Phnom Penh 1st January 2008, 4:29 pm

Cambodia - Phnom Penh

Founded in the mid-14th century by the Khmers as a monastery, Phnom Penh replaced Angkor Thom a century later as the country's capital. The city has long been a vital trading hub at the confluence of three rivers: the Mekong, Tonle Sap, and Bassac. The city's most dramatic history was when it lay vacant; following an eviction order from Pol Pot, the city was deserted in a period of hours. Almost all of Phnom Penh's residents moved to the countryside in 1975, not to return until 1979 under the authority of Vietnamese troops.
It has been a long road to the peaceful and growing Phnom Penh of today. There were many years of frontier-style anarchy after the city was repopulated in 1979. Drugs and prostitution are still a big downtown commodity, but it's unlikely that you'll be caught in the crossfire, something you couldn't say 4 or 5 years ago. Today Phnom Penh enjoys its own kind of harmony of opposites. Visitors are offered peaceful moments like a sunset at riverside, as well as dusty, motorbike-choked labyrinthine alleys and cacophonous markets. The city is an incongruous cluster of crumbling French colonials, and the central riverside area has a pace all its own that's great for wandering.
There's also much of historic interest in Phnom Penh. Its Royal Palace is a stone showpiece of classical Khmer architecture, and the Silver Pagoda, on the palace grounds, is a jewel-encrusted wonder. Throughout the city, you'll see the faded glory of aged French colonial architecture. There are also many notable wats, Buddhist temples with resident monks.
Of more grisly interest is the Tuol Sleng, or Museum of Genocide, a schoolhouse-turned-prison where up to 20,000 victims of Pol Pot's excesses were tortured before being led to the Choeung Ek, otherwise known as The Killing Fields, about 16km (10 miles) from Phnom Penh. It's a town certainly worth exploring for a few days.

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Subject: Re: Cambodia - Phnom Penh 4th January 2008, 1:09 am

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Subject: Re: Cambodia - Phnom Penh 13th January 2008, 4:32 am