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Cambodia's first-ever contemporary art show comes to a number of venues throughout Phnom Penh. It features new work by 20 Cambodian artists - both established and emerging, some self-taught…
As the harvest ends, Cambodia prepares for the new year with three days of purification ceremonies, temple offerings, traditional games and a royal procession.
The first furrows of the year are ploughed in a sacred Phnom Penh rice field, and sacred cows are used to determine predictions for the year ahead. Formerly conducted by the King of Cambodia…
This annual festival honours the Buddha's exhortation to remember the dead. During the 15 days, offerings are presented to Buddhist monks, mostly of food but sometimes clothes are given.
In Cambodia, the king's birthday is a national holiday that features a fireworks display on the banks of the Tonle Sap River in front of Royal Palace - a stunning building of curving roofs…
Marching and gongs, flags and saffron robes proliferate throughout Cambodia for this major religious festival. Monks emerge from their rain-season retreat to receive their new robes and small…
Water Festival on the Banks of the Mekong
One of the biggest and most extravagant festivals in Cambodia, the water festival (or Bonn Om Touk) is a spectacle not to be missed. Over three days during the full moon in November, up to a…
Festival of the Reversing Current (Bon Om Tuk)
Strangely, the current of the Tonlé Sap river, which runs through Phnom Penh from the Tonlé Sap Lake to the Mekong, switches direction each November. During the heyday of the Khmer Empire, the…
Majestic Angkor Wat temple, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the centrepiece of 40 temple and palace ruins scattered over a 200km area, collectively known as Angkor. Towering above the jungle…
Not so long ago, any night was an event in Phomn Penh's "The Heart". Expats of all ilks sipped their drinks as gunfire and the occasional rocket launcher drowned out the music! Today, it is a…
Sitting on the balcony in this beautiful building, overlooking the Mekong and life on the street, you could imagine yourself back in a romantic version of Cambodia's colonial past. The FCC is…
It's a stark introduction to recent Cambodian history, but to form any understanding of these people and this country, a visit to Tuol Sleng, the Khmer Rouge detention centre, is essential.
