Water Festival 2025 Trip: 3days 2nights from Pursat to Koh Kong Cambodia

 The Water Festival of 2025 from 4-6 November. It is a public holiday here in Cambodia. Let's explore with me for a 3days 2nights along from Pursat to Koh Kong. There are so many best landscape a long the way which i couldn't imagine there is. As you know word couldn't describe more than you witness it by your own eyes. So here what you gonna love it.

Kulen Mountain and Water Fall- Siem Reap- Cambodia

Kulen is the name of a mountain that cover mostly of rock. On the top of the mountain, there is a big forest which exist the green trees, plants and a beautiful water fall.

Kulen is not famous of its beautiful mountain, but it is a historical area also.There are many beautiful and natural places for you to visiting such as:

Water Fall: It divided in two parts.

First part the water is not so strong and there are many spaces for you to swimming.

Second part,it is the most crowded place because the height of water fall is over than 20meter and is very cool when you swimming around there. So here u will feel comfortable and relaxed.

Phnom Penh: Happy Water Festival 2010

Bayon Temple or Angkor Thom, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Date of Construction: Late 12th century C.E.

Religious Affiliation: Buddhist
Patron or King: Jayavarman VII
Artistic/Archeo. Style: Bayon
Location: Central Angkor Thom
Location of Entrance: Eastern causeway

Bayon Temple or Angkor Thom, royal city and Buddhist temple complex at Angkor Wat, the capital of Khmer Empire of Cambodia from the early 9th century to the mid 15th century. It sized around 1177, and it was built by Khmer King Jayavarman VII after he had regained control of the Angkor Region from the Cham army of the northern Cambodia.

If you see only two temples, Angkor Wat and Bayon should be the ones. The giant stone faces of Bayon have become one of the most recognizable images connected to classic Khmer art and architecture. There are 37 standing towers, most but not all sporting four carved faces oriented toward the cardinal points. Who the faces represent is a matter of debate but they may be Loksvara, Mahayana Buddhism’s compassionate Bodhisattva, or perhaps a combination of Buddha and Jayavarman VII. Bayon was the Jayavarman VII’s state-temple and in many ways represents the pinnacle of his massive building campaign. It appears to be, and is to some degree, an architectural muddle, in part because it was constructed in a somewhat piecemeal fashion for over a century.

Banteay Srey Temple, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Banteay Srey Temple, Siem Riep, Cambodia

Date of Contruction: Late 10th Century C.E
Religious Affiliation: Hinduism
Patron of King: RAJENDRAVARMAN
Artistic/Archeo. Style: Bantey Srey
Location: North of Siem Reap Town (25kms).

- Banteay Srey Temple – Citadel of beauty or women. Banteay Srey, as it is known by Khmer people, was originally called Isvarapura.The temple was rediscovered in 1914.

- Banteay Srey displays some of classical Khmer art. The charming point of this temple lies in its remarkable state of preservation, small size , pink sandstone construction, deep and intricate carvings of Angkorian temple.

- Recently, the road have been repaired and it takes about 35 minutes from Siem Reap town to reach there. The best time to visiting is before 10:30 AM and after 2:00PM.

Toul Sleng Genocide Museum-Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Toul Sleng Genocide Museum-Phnom Penh, Cambodia

The Toul Sleng Genocide Museum it was used by Khmer Rouge as the detention and torture center in the late 1970. Prior to 1975, Toul Sleng was a high school, but when the Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975, its named S-21 prison and interrogation facitlity.

Today the school is houses exhibits, there are paintings and thousands photographs of victims. S-21 processed over 17000 people , few of them were survived. Painting of torture at the prison by Van Nath-one of a survivor of Toul Sleng.

Location: Corner of street 113 and Street 350.

Entrance Fee: 2$.

Open Everyday: 8AM to 5Pm including holidays (closed for lunch).

Cambodia: A Feast For Every Sense

by sunny

There's no better way to discover the real Cambodia than by mixing a river safari with a culinary odyssey, says Richard Strange.

Stéphane Delourme, still in his chef's whites, is smoking a cigarette on the terrace of Pacharan, Phnom Penh's elegant riverside restaurant. The lightning from an electric storm illuminates his face. He is exhausted but content. He raises a glass of white wine and toasts no one in particular. "We did it! We did it!" he repeats, in his irresistible French accent.

As the culmination of a two-week long Cambodian adventure, part-river safari, part-culinary odyssey, Delourme has just cooked a five-course dinner for 60 guests at one of the city’s hottest restaurants, and the evening has been a triumph.

For nine years, Brittany-born Delourme has been head chef at Rick Stein's Seafood Restaurant in Padstow, Cornwall. Wishing to broaden his culinary horizons, Delourme persuaded Stein to let him take a two-week sabbatical and join a Culinary Tour of Cambodia, organised by the Wild Frontiers, a tour company that specialises in edgy, off-the-beaten-track destinations and themes.

The plan was to start in Siem Reap, the nearest town to the temples of Angkor Wat. It was here, at the elegant but funky FCC hotel, a fine colonial-style establishment whose cool contemporary-ethnic rooms are the perfect retreat, and whose bar is lively but not raucous, that I first met Delourme.

Our party of nine included Andrew Ridgeley, formerly George Michael's partner in the Eighties group Wham! and his ebullient girlfriend Keren Woodward, of Bananarama.

An unashamed gourmet, Ridgeley is both venerable and serious, a surfer in his adopted Cornwall who has become a prominent local environmentalist in the cause of water quality. Keren, still singing, still laughing, is the girl whom time left alone ��" gorgeous, voluptuous and enormous fun.

Our happy band was completed by Peter of Sullivan, the tour leader from Wild Frontiers. A former musician, On Sullivan first went out to Cambodia in the early Nineties to clear landmines. He has been going back ever since, as a journalist, tour guide and researcher for Wild Frontiers, and has an encyclopedic knowledge of Khmer culture and politics.

The temple visits done, our time in Siem Reap was spent trawling the vast fruit, vegetable and fish markets for local produce with our Cambodian guide and translator Vudthy (pronounced "Watti").

The fertile Cambodian land produces mountains of fresh food, and more than 300 species of freshwater fish are hauled daily from the Tonle Sap lake and river.

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