Archive for the ‘Cambodia’ Category
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
Adding to yesterday's great news that the Titanium mine, planned for Chi Phat, has been shelved, the Cambodian government is now drafting a sub-decree to increase the size of Koh Kong Province's Protected Forest. Someone up there must have started fretting about his karma and the afterlife!
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
Special summer special. 20% discount on Cambodian River cruises on the Toum Tiou II.
21-23 July: Phnom penh to Siem Reap
25-27 July: Siem Reap to Phnom Penh
02-04 August: Phnom Penh to Siem Reap
08-10 August: Sirem Reap to Phnom Penh
Book here.
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Monday, April 11th, 2011
A late minute intervention by Prime minister, Hun Sen, has saved a thriving community-based tourism project in Cambodia's Koh Kong Province from a planned, highly destructive, Titanium mine.
The mine project, by the United Khmer Group, was rumoured to have been just a cover to gain access to the ...
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
Finally! Direct flights from Europe to Cambodia. Air France have started a 3X per week flight direct from Charles de Gaulle Airport to Phnom Penh, departing at Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays at 1930pm and arriving at 1430 the following morning. the other way from PP to Paris is on Tuesdays, ...
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
Nice appraisal from this French family from Japan who undertook a Mekong River Explorer trip, finishing this week:
From: Marie-Cécile Conilh de Beysac
Subject: thank you
Date: 6 March 2011 20:02:48 GMT+07:00
To: Christopher Gow
We have only have one word : wonderful ! One of our best trip.
Thank ...
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
This New York Times story highlights some interesting eco-tourism developments in Cambodia.
See some of my pics from Chi Phat here on the Symbiosis Facebook page
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Saturday, February 12th, 2011
The Cambodian Government yesterday approved a land concession in the heart of dense forest in Koh Kong Province for a titanium mine that environmentalists say will devastate dozens of endangered species and clear thousands of hectares of trees in Cambodia's Cardamom mountains.
I visited Chi Phat, the area that will be ...
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Thursday, February 10th, 2011
In case you missed last month's blog following my New Year visit to Preah Vihear... before the latest round of skirmishes started... here it is again: http://www.symbiosis-travel.com/blog/2011/01/07/preah-vihear-cambodia-30-dec-2010/
I will try to find time to post some more shots shortly.
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
Amazing half price offer on 2 end-of-season Mekong River cruises between Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam, and Siem Reap, home to Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple complex.
Dates
13 to 20 March: Saigon to Siem Reap on the Toum Tiou II
29 March to 5 April 2011: Siem Reap to Saigon on the ...
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Friday, January 7th, 2011
Perched on the top of a 525m high escarpment on the northern border with Thailand, Cambodia's Preah Vihear temple has become a source of tension between the 2 neighbours in recent months - a dispute that has been simmering since 1962 when the International Court of Justice awarded ownership of ...
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Monday, January 3rd, 2011
I have just returned to Phnom Penh after a great New Year road trip into the wilderness of northern Cambodia.
Our trip took us first to Stung Treng - with a stop in Kratie Province to spot the illusive and endangered Irrawaddy dolphins of Campie - where the Sesan and ...
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Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
Vietnam has the highest number of endemic bird species on mainland South East Asia. There are currently twelve species of bird that are found only in Vietnam, though this figure is liable to change at any time as taxonomic changes are made and species are 'split'. In addition to these ...
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Friday, November 26th, 2010
Cruising the mystical Mekong River
4 days/3 nights on board the Toum Tiou, a charming, colonial style river vessel. Embark in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly known as Saigon), Southern Vietnam, and finish in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia.
Dates: 6 to 9 April 2011.
Click here for more information and to ...
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
Symbiosis is happy to offer additional cruise dates with big discounts on the Toum Tiou luxury river cruise across the Tonle Sap lake between Phnom Penh and Siem Reap, home of Angkor Wat.
08-10 Nov: Angkor to Phnom Penh - 25% OFF
17-19 Dec: Phnom Penh to Angkor - 25% OFF
28-30 Jan: ...
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Friday, October 1st, 2010
Feeding the Ancestors: The Cambodian Pchum Ben Festival
The fifteenth day, of the tenth month, of the Khmer calendar marks the Pchum Ben festival. This is a time when the spirits of the dead ancestors walk the Earth. And the living can ease their suffering by offering them food to eat.
At ...
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