Category: Phnom Penh

Phnom Penh (Phnom Penh) - The capital of the Kingdom of Cambodia on the banks of the Mekong with a population of more than 1,5 million. Самый большой город Cambodia одновременно является центром и политической, and economic, and cultural life of the country Rouge. However, the main monument – cultural heritage is (Sime Rip) Angkor.

Once Phnom Penh was known as Krong Chaktomuk, due to its location and the intersection, formed by the rivers of the Mekong, Bassak and Tonlesap, it allows you to actively engage in agriculture in the territories, adjacent to the city. Well developed by the 20th years of the twentieth century, with the help of the French colonists, Пномпень соединили железной дорогой с Сиануквилем и он продолжал активно строиться, город иногда называли “Азиатской жемчужиной”.

Before the end of the Vietnam War, April 1975 year, Khmer Rouge captured the city and most of the city's population was expelled in the village to 1979 year, when the troops in Vietnam, and the Cambodians have recaptured Phnom Penh Khmer Rouge. Из города можно выехать на экскурсию на “поля смерти” – Rouge genocide museum. A в самом Пномпене можно посетить следующие достопримечательности: Wat Phnom (Temple Holman), Royal Palace or, eg, Monument of Independence and Liberation.

We stayed in Phnom Penh in December 2011 year, and then a couple of times have been passing through the central bus station of the city, c dekabre 11 the vesnoй 2012 year.