Things to Do in Cambodia

Botum Sakor National Park

Botum Sakor National Park (Khmer: ឧទ្យានជាតិបុទុមសាគរ, Ŏtyéanchéatĕ Bŏtŭm Sakôr) is the largest national park of Cambodia.

Hoi Phuoc Pagoda

Óc Eo

Óc Eo (Vietnamese) is an archaeological site in Thoại Sơn District in southern An Giang Province, Vietnam, in the Mekong River Delta.

Đồng Tháp

Đồng Tháp (listen) is a province in the Mekong Delta and Đồng Tháp Mười region of southern Vietnam. Đồng Tháp is 165 kilometres (103 mi) from Ho Chi Minh City, bordered by Pray Veng Province (Cambodia) in the north with a length of more than 48 kilometres (30 mi); Vĩnh Long and Cần…

Roman Catholic Diocese of Long Xuyen

The diocese of Long Xuyên (Latin: Dioecesis Longxuyensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese of Vietnam. The bishop is Joseph Trân Xuân Tiéu, since 2003.The creation of the diocese in present form was declared November 24, 1960.The diocese covers an area of 10,243 km², and is a suffragan diocese of th…

Prasat Phnom Chisor

Phnom Chisor (Phnom Chiso, Chisor Mountain, Khmer: ភ្នំជីសូរ) is a 133 m high mountain in Dok Por village, Rovieng commune, Samraŏng District, Takéo Province, Cambodia. It lies about 42 km south of Phnom Penh.

Mosque Nur ul-Ihsan

The Nur ul-Ihsan Mosque was, until 2018, the oldest mosque in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. It was situated 7 km north of the centre of the city.It was built in 1813 by the Cham community.

Boeng Choeung Ek Killing Field

Choeung Ek (Khmer: ជើងឯក, Cheung Êk [cəːŋ ʔeːk]) is the site of a former orchard and mass grave of victims of the Khmer Rouge – killed between 1975 and 1979 – in Dangkao Section, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, about 17 kilometres (11 mi) south of the Phnom Penh city centre.

Wat Botum Park

Wat Botum (Khmer: វត្តបទុម, lit. Temple of the Lotus Blossoms), the official name is Wat Botum Watey Reacheveraram (Khmer: វត្តបទុមវតីរាជវរារាម) literally means The temple of lotus which was built by the king, is a wat (pagoda) located on Phnom…

Independence Monument

The Independence Monument (Khmer: វិមានឯករាជ្យ [ʋimiən ʔaekariəc]) in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, was built in 1958 to memorialise Cambodia's independence from France in 1953.

Moha Montrey Pagoda

Wat Moha Montrey (Khmer: វត្តមហាមន្ត្រី, "Grand Minister Pagoda") is a wat located on Sihanouk Boulevard in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Built in 1970, it was used by the Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1979 as a storage house for rice and corn.

Prasat Ta Muen Thom

Prasat Ta Muen Thom or Prasat Ta Moan Thom (Khmer: ប្រាសាទតាមាន់ធំ - Prasat Ta Moan Thom ; Thai: ปราสาทตาเมือนธม, RTGS: Prasat Ta Muean Thom, pronounced [prāːsàːt tāː mɯ̄a̯n tʰōm]) is a Khom temple located on Cambodian-Thai borde…

Bokor church

The Church of Mount Bokor also known as the Old Catholic Church of Bokor Mountain is second-oldest standing Roman Catholic church in the Kingdom of Cambodia atop the Bokor Hill station.

Killing Fields

The Killing Fields (Khmer: វាលពិឃាត, Khmer pronunciation: [ʋiəl pikʰiət]) are a number of sites in Cambodia where collectively more than a million people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime (the Communist Party of Kampuchea) during its rule of the country from 1975 t…

St. Joseph Catholic Church

The St Joseph's Church (French: Église Saint-Joseph de Phnom Penh) or Main Roman Catholic Church of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, is actually a school temporarily transformed into a church until the construction of an actual church.

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (Khmer: សារមន្ទីរឧក្រិដ្ឋកម្មប្រល័យពូជសាសន៍ទួលស្លែង) or simply Tuol Sleng (Khmer: ទួលស្លែង, Tuŏl Slêng [tuəl slaeŋ]; lit.

Sadok Kok Thom

Sdok Kok Thom (Thai: สด๊กก๊อกธม, Sadok Kok Thom, pronounced [sādók kɔ́k tʰōm]; Khmer: ស្តុកកក់ធំ, Sdŏk Kák Thum [sɗok kɑk tʰum]), or Sdok Kak Thom, is an 11th-century Khmer temple in present-day Thailand, located about 34 kilometres (21 mi) northeas…

Banteay Chhmar

Banteay Chhmar (Khmer: បន្ទាយឆ្មារ pronounced [ɓɑːn.tiəj.cʰmaː]) is a commune (khum) in Thma Puok District in Banteay Meanchey province in northwest Cambodia. It is located 63 km north of Sisophon and about 20 km east of the Thai border.

The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Thai: อาสนวิหารพระนางมารีอาปฏิสนธินิรมล) is a Catholic church and is located in the city of Chanthaburi, in the province of the same name, in Thailand.The cathedral, visible from most of the…

Angkor Wat

Angkor Wat (; Khmer: អង្គរវត្ត, lit. 'temple city / city of temples'), located in northwest Cambodia, is the largest religious structure in the form of a temple complex in the world by land area, measuring 162.6 hectares (401+3⁄4 acres).

Beng Mealea

Beng Mealea (Khmer: ប្រាសាទបឹងមាលា, Prasat Boĕng Méaléa [ɓəŋ miəliə], "Temple of Lotus Pond"), or Boeng Mealea, is a temple from the Angkor Wat period: 118–119  located 40 km east of the main group of temples at Angkor, Cambodia, on the ancient royal highway…

Roluos

Roluos (Khmer: រលួស) is a Cambodian modern small town and an archeological site about 13 km east of Siem Reap along NH6.

Sambor Prei Kuk

Sambor Prei Kuk (Khmer: ប្រាសាទសំបូរព្រៃគុហ៍, Prasat Sâmbor Prei Kŭ) is an archaeological site in Cambodia located in Kampong Thom Province, 30 km (19 mi) north of Kampong Thom, the provincial capital, 176 km (109 mi) east of Angkor and 206 km (128 mi) north…

Tram Chim National Park

Tràm Chim National Park (Vietnamese: Vườn quốc gia Tràm Chim) is a national park in the Plain of Reeds in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam.

Banteay Prey Nokor

The ancient temple complex of Banteay Prei Nokor (Khmer: បន្ទាយព្រៃនគរ) is to the northwest of Kompong Cham, Cambodia.The complex is especially known by the temple of Wat Nokor in Khum of Kompong Siem, 1200 meters from the town of Kompong Cham.

Wat Phnom Da

The ancient Funan sites of Angkor Borei (Khmer: អង្គរបុរី) and Phnom Da (Khmer: ភ្នំដា) are located in the Angkor Borei District, Takéo Province, of southern Cambodia.

Udong

Oudong (Khmer: ឧដុង្គ; also romanized as Udong or Odong) is an ancient town of the post-Angkorian period (1618-1863 C.E) situated in present-day Phsar Daek Commune, Ponhea Lueu District, Kandal Province, Cambodia.

Apostolic Vicariate of Phnom Penh

The Apostolic Vicariate of Phnom Penh (French: Vicariat apostolique de Phnom-Penh) is a territorial subdivision of the Roman Catholic Church in Cambodia. It is immediately subject to the Holy See and it is presided over by Bishop Olivier Schmitthaeusler M.E.P.

Prasat Ta Khwai

Prasat Ta Krabey or Prasat Ta Krabei, in Khmer (Khmer: ប្រាសាទតាក្របី) and also known as Prasat Ta Khwai, in Thai (Thai: ปราสาทตาควาย), is a disputed Khmer temple which was built during Angkor period, the golden age of Cambodian history.

Khuk Khi Kai

Khuk Khi Kai (Thai: คุกขี้ไก่, pronounced [kʰúk kʰîː kàj]), also called the Chicken Dung Cell or Chicken Poop Prison, is a former prison in Laem Sing, Chanthaburi, Thailand. It was built in 1893 after the French occupied the area as part of the Franco-Siamese War.