Phnom Penh: A Palace, A Museum & A Cow

Posted on March 7, 2012 by jipp

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.

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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 is offered at the palace. Continue reading →

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Jalan Sultan and The Morning Flea Market

Posted on March 4, 2012 by jipp

So, I’ve just returned from Petaling Street or rather Jalan Sultan in KL this morning. I first heard about the existence of some ‘rare’ market there when I was still studying at University of Malaya a zillion years ago.

My housemates would wake up in the wee hour of the morning just so that they could catch as many things as possible by going there the earliest they could. “Things can get snapped away pretty fast”, they’d tell me.

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I wasn’t as adventurous and curious back then as I probably am now so I never joined them – but I’d join the rest of the housemates marveling at all the things that they’d bring back and spread out in front us when they returned home. Continue reading →

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Exploring the PHNOM PENH on Foot

Posted on March 1, 2012 by jipp

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 to the Cambodian people but the world over.

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We were going to spend the day by visiting some of the major attractions within the city of Phnom Penh. Good thing about Phnom Penh is that, you can actually cover just about everything within the city by just walking and you guys know how I love walking. After all, I practically covered Paris on foot when I went there a few years back so I didn’t see any reason why I shouldn’t do the same for Phnom Penh which is probably less than a quarter smaller. With a map in our hands, we were ready to go… Continue reading →

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