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Phnom Penh: A Palace, A Museum & A Cow

Phnom Penh: A Palace, A Museum & A Cow

I suppose I don’t have to tell you that most palaces in ‘highly Buddhist’ countries like Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand require their visitors to be in proper dresses instead of those all-too bearing clothes that you’d probably wear while strutting your stuff on a white sandy beach in Phuket or something. So, the admission fee is USD6.25 (25,000 Riels) and that is like MYR18.50 in Ringgit Malaysia. How worthy it is depends a lot on how you can appreciate what…

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Exploring the PHNOM PENH on Foot

Exploring the PHNOM PENH on Foot

It would be our last day in Phnom Penh before we took a bus to Siem Reap the next day. We spent the day before trying to understand what it was in the head of Pol Pot when he tortured and killed thousands and thousands of people during his 4 years of ruling Cambodia. For me, there was no way I could fully understand it but then, whatever happened in the past is going to be a lesson not only…

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Crossing the Malaysian-Thai Border via Sungai Golok

Crossing the Malaysian-Thai Border via Sungai Golok

One of the things that I had been most curious about in Kelantan is how it is like at the border of Malaysia-Thailand so I allocated my last day there to drive over to the border and see it for myself. I learned from the people with whom I had worked on my job assignment in Kota Bharu that Thailand could be accessed from Kelantan by getting on a ferry at Pengkalan Kubor or crossing over the Golok River on…

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