Cambodia Backpackers Travel Wiki

Visitors to Cambodia may get the pleasure of being involved in a volunteer school at some stage - and there are many of these operating, run by good organisations such as Ponheary Ly Foundation (PLF), SCC of the UK and others. (This writer works with Savong's School near Siem Reap.

In Cambodia, education used to be at a high level, and in the 20th Century was modelled on the French system. Teachers were highly paid (one estimate is that by 1970 they received 10 times more salary - inflation adjusted - than they do today) and the nation produced ...

This country of remote forests and mighty rivers running to the sea where quiet beaches lie, is only just making itself known to the tourist crowd. Still recovering from years of war and isolation it is becoming the latest place on the South-East Asian travel map, but it is not yet somewhere to take long, lonely hikes into its countryside, dotted as it is with over six million landmines, and other remnants of its battle. So unless you are looking for a blast of a different kind, and don't fancy being 'blown away' by something other than the magnificent scenery ...