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A slow boat to Battambang

A boy on a boat at a village along the Sangkae river in northwest Cambodia. Picture: Chris Mannolini

September 18, 2016 Leave a Comment

The riverboat from Siem Reap to Battambang, in Cambodia’s northwest, leaves early each morning and takes five to six hours squeezing through narrow waterways and wetlands and past myriad small villages, stopping at many to pick up or drop off passengers. It’s a photographer’s paradise. Advertisements

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Around and about in Battambang

February 17, 2013 4 Comments

It was at the memorial to the victims of the Khmer Rouge regime at a wat just outside Battambang that I learnt a lot more about my guide, Mr Philay, and Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. “We were always so hungry … oh, hungry, hungry all the time,’’ he said. “Nothing to eat.”