Category: Traveler memoirs
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Cambodia in 12 days – Part 1: Visiting Phnom Penh
So here is how our adventure starts. We are three friends from Madrid doing an exchange year in Taichung (Taiwan) and we wanted to take the advantage of being in Asia to travel around the continent before going back to Spain. Cambodia was relatively close to us, it had been recommended by a lot…
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From Cambodia to Laos by Taxi
Laos is an incredible country to visit, so it is a shame that it is not easy to reach – until now! Regular buses cost at least $30 one-way to the Laos border, and the quality varies. For less per person than a bus ticket, we had our own mini-van, with a private driver at…
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Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville with PSD Xpress
Being a new operator in this kind of travel, I was quite curious to try the PSD Xpress bus from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville, hoping to spend a relaxed weekend on a beach in Otres and runaway from the craziness in the capital during the Water Festival. I packed a small bag and started to…
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Private Taxi Cambodia: How to get to Koh Rong
The way from Phnom Penh to Koh Rong is not easy. You have to combine bus and ferry, adjust to times, and make sure that everything matches. Everything is even harder when you are a group of 22 people. But CamboTicket gave us the solution. Thanks to their new offering of private taxis in Cambodia, we were…
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Phnom Penh Street Art Scene
Being a fast-growing capital city, Phnom Penh is a thriving place with that special feeling of many things happening at the same time, a small but motivated art scene and new urban trends breeding all over.
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Visiting Kratie: Searching for endangered dolphins
Smaller things that we didn’t forget A smell: the smell of gasoline when we follow the lawn-tractors and the trucks through the roads of Kratie. A sound: the noise of the engine from the boat taking us to the island of Kaoh Trong in the middle of the Mekong, hoping it doesn’t cut out in…
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Backpacking Cambodia with CamboTicket
We booked a ticket with CamboTicket from Ho Chi Minh City to Phnom Penh that we didn’t use because we changed our plans. We asked for a refund and we promptly received a voucher with the correspondent amount. In the following days backpacking Cambodia we used our voucher for different trips contacting one of…
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Insider’s Life in Sihanoukville
When we first landed in Cambodia we rushed our way to Sihanoukville as we were taking part in a volunteering program in a yoga centre over there. Thanks to camboticket.com we were able to book our itinerary beforehand and managed to get from Siem Reap to Sihanoukville in time for the volunteering program. While we won’t get…
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Head to head: Koh Rong vs. Koh Rong Samloem
After three months travelling around the amazing South East Asia and being in a few of the islands on the Gulf of Thailand, I thought it was going to be hard to get impressed once again. But Koh Rong is totally different than the other islands I’ve seen before and I really enjoyed my…
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A Week in Laos – Laos Travel on a Budget
After reaching Stung Treng from Phnom Penh by bus and then to Pakse in a mini van, we finally got to Vientiane on Sunday morning, after more than a day of travel. We dropped off our stuff in the hostel (Garden backpackers, pretty recommended), and then decided to hire motorbikes to see the city. Read on for…