Phnom Penh, Cambodia

a volunteers life...

Volunteering overseas is great. Apart from the homesickness and missing your loved ones and maybe missing out on important events back at home, it is for me the best time of my life. It might be because I chose the right organisation (VSO) or because I chose to come to Cambodia. Whatever it...

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katja-horsch on December 9, 2010 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia

from the travel blog: a volunteers life...

Halloween, Boatrace and more kittens!

Oli's best friend Nick was in Cambodia for 3 weeks and when we met, we visited Angkor Wat together, where Berti also found freedom and peace for once. Berti was a beautiful green pigion, who was rescued before going into the soup-pot at the restaurant where I live. There were plenty more,...

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katja-horsch on December 8, 2010 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia

from the travel blog: Halloween, Boatrace and more kittens!

En la Colina de Penh

El 17 de abril de 1975 Phnom Penh cayó en manos de las tropas del Khmer Rouge (Khmer Rojo) lideradas por Pol Pot. Pol Pot y su ejército, instauraron en Camboya uno de los cambios sociales más radicales de la historia. Ese mismo día, el 17 de abril de 1975, se declaró el año cero y todo el...

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Paso a Paso on October 29, 2010 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia

from the travel blog: PASO A PASO

unbelievable but true, Dave made it to Cambodia!

Dave was supposed to arrive in the evening of the 18th of September. Due to some confusion he missed his connecting flight from Bangkok and had to spend the night at the airport. Fortunately he got another flight so that I could pick up stinky Dave at Phnom Penh airport the next day. It was...

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katja-horsch on October 14, 2010 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia

from the travel blog: Unbelievable but true, Dave made it to Cambodia!

The Horror and Hope of Cambodia

Cambodia was the last country left to visit. I have to warn you that some of you may find this entry difficult reading/viewing. We travelled by bus from Ho Chi Minh to Phnom Penh arriving in the afternoon. We opted to stay in the cheap backpacker district by the lake. The accommodation was great...

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SupandNic on October 11, 2010 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia

from the travel blog: Sup and Nic's World Tour!

16 months here

The kittens are 3 month now and the female one (Phia) is already in Kratie to start her new life with Abi. She has a new name now, called: Rocky Lobster, as far as I'm aware. The other two I am still in the process of "selling". Even wrote an article in our local volunteers...

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katja-horsch on September 14, 2010 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia

from the travel blog: 16 months here

Welcome to a good world!

My kittens have arrived and finally get the treatment they diserve. Otherwise I was busy helping the RTC prepare for one week of Training and to organize and facilitate the annual Health Sector Workshop. Of course with appropriate celebrating afterwards! So why did I use this title? I...

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katja-horsch on July 27, 2010 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia

from the travel blog: Welcome to a good world!

moved and still alive!

Hello everyone. Nearly two weeks, I finally managed to empty my old house and moved a few houses down the road, to my new home. From a big giant wooden 2 bedroom house on stilts with River view, I've downsized to 2 rooms in a house, where I now live with a Khmer family together. I...

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katja-horsch on June 9, 2010 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia

from the travel blog: my new house and other desasters

I'm the farmer, I work in the fields all day.

It's been a busy few weeks so I haven't been able to write for a while! All is going well at the orphanage, I'm getting the hang of teaching now! I'm sad that I've only got a week to go with the kids. My morning class is great - I only have one girl so it's more of a private tutoring session but...

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JillR on May 22, 2010 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia

from the travel blog: And now for something different...

Phnom Penh

Although every place we had visited, has monuments relating to the war, all collectively known as the Killing Fields. Phnom Penh has perhaps the most moving memorials and museums relating to the the war in Cambodia. We visited the Killing Fields of Choeung EK, effectively it was an extermination...

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Tim and Em on May 22, 2010 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia

from the travel blog: Round half the world!

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