Angkor Wat Temple In Cambodia

Angkor Wat temple is suitable to get the name "A Wonder in among of the seven wonders in the world". Of course, Angkor Wat temple is a temple which was built by Khmer's ancestor. It makes the people who live around the world know Cambodia country which is only a small country in Asia, but in Cambodia, there is also a wonder which is famous all around the world. Angkor Wat temple also attract national tourists who live in Cambodia, and international tourists who live oversea, come to visit, moreover, it make them admire it because on the wall of the temple, there are many beautiful statues that make tourists interested in it, furthermore, when the tourists saw it, they always want to visit it again and again because they don't want to forget the beauty of the temple. Beside the beauty of the statue on the wall of the temple, the temple also show the custom, culture and traditional in that era because in that era, Cambodia is also a powerful country in the world, that is called "Khmer Empire" because there are many good kings who lead the country well.


All the things above about Angkor Wat temple, it is really suitable for people to regard Angkor Wat temple as a wonder in among of seven wonders in the world.

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Visiting Sihanouk ville

If you have the chance to have the holiday in Sihanouk ville, you will think it was very wonderful for you. First, you can see the natural views of forest, field, waterfall, and a lot of shall village along the road. Second, you can have the delicious picnic on the beach with a lot of kind of sea food such as crab, shrine, fish and etc, moreover, you can play along the beach with the endless continuous waves, and finally, you can enjoy your life with dancing party and relax with the cool air blowing from the sea, in conclusion, although how feel you are, you will really have the great time there.

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Water Festival in Cambodia

Water festival is a big national traditional festival that is always celebrated for 3 days every year in Cambodia, and last year 2007 it was celebrated from 11 to 13 November, so those days was the public holidays for Cambodian. First day, most people always go to their hometown to visit their relative who live in province/city in Cambodia with their family because they though that the best place where they should go to visit first was their hometown. When they arrive there, they can see their relatives smiling at them that was meant they welcome to them who have come to visit them, moreover, they always bring anything there for their relative, and they always spend a night there because they come back on the second day of water festival day. The second and third day of water festival, most people always go to riverside to see the royal palace and visit racing boats there. In conclusion, the water festival is an enjoyable public holidays for Cambodian and foreigners who are in Cambodia.  

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Geography of Cambodia

Cambodia is a tropical of densely forest hills, small scattered villages of thatched-roof houses, and emerald-green rice paddies (walled fields that can be filled with water for growing rice). It is bordered by Thailand on the west and northwest, Laos on the north and northeast, and Vietnam on the east and southeast. On the southwest is Cambodia's only outlet to the sea, a short stretch of coastline on the Gulf of Thailand. The country is about 450 Kilometers, from north to south at its greatest extend, and about 580 Kilometer from east to west. Its total area including a number of small offshore islands is 181,035 square kilometers, making it about the size of Washington in the United Stated.


   The center of the country is the flattest, most fertile, and most heavily populated and cultivated region. It consists of a moist lowland plain that lies between Cambodia's two major bodies of water: Tonle Sap and The Mekong River.

The Tonle Sap is a long, narrow lake in the west central part of the country. During the dry season (November to April), it covers an area of 3,120 square kilometers and it nowhere deeper than 2 meters, but during the raining season from May to October, when it is fed by the waters of many rivers and streams, the Tonle Sap swells to about three times its normal area and reaches a dept of 10.5 meters. This annual shallow flooding covers the surrounding countryside with a layer of moist, nutrient-rich mud, ideal for growing rice. In addition to being the center of Cambodia's rice-growing provinces, the Tonle Sap also provides the country's second main food item: fish, its warm, shallow waters teem with carp, lake chub, eels, and other species, In fact, the Tonle Sap is one of the richest freshwater fish hatcheries in the world, yielding as much as 26 tons of fish for each square mile. Dried and salted fish is a staple of the Cambodian diet, along with rice. Because of its richness of these two foods, the central plain around the Tonle Sap has been populated since ancient times. Angkor, the old capital and religious center of the Khmer Empire, is located near the northern end of the Tonle Sap.

The Mekong River is one of the longest river in Asia. It flows out of the Himalayan Mountains of Tibet and then winds through Laos, along the Laotian-Thai border, and into Cambodia. Within Cambodia, the river runs for approximately 494 Kilometers from the northern border with Laos to the southern border with Vietnam. It then crosses southern Vietnam before emptying into the South China Sea. Fed by the melting snows of the Himalayan peaks and buy the torrential downpour of the tropical rainy season, the Mekong reached its deepest and fastest flow during August and September. The Mekong is connected to the Tonle Sap by a short channels likes river called the Tonle Sap. This Chanel joins the Mekong about 104 Kilometer south of the lake, where the river sweeps from the westward to southward in a hug curve. Just below the junction with the Tonle Sap. A smaller river called The Bassac branches off from the Mekong, together with the Tonle Sap flowing in and the Bassac flowing out, forms a watery X in the south-central Cambodia, on the southern edge of the fertile, crowded central lowland. This crossing of rivers is the center of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital since the 15th century and its only sizable city.

Climate and Weather

Cambodia is located between the tropic of cancer and the equator, which means that it is in the world's north tropical zone. Like all tropical countries, it is always hot, or at least warm. (Some tropical countries have cold regions at high altitudes, but Cambodia's mountains, although they are rugged, are not high enough to be cold.) Day time temperatures in April, the warmest month, average about 35 centigrade. In January, the coolest month, daytime temperatures average 28 centigrade Nights are usually noticeably cooler, but even in the mountains in January a really chilly night is very rare. Frost, snow, and ice are unheard of. Cambodia has what is called a monsoonal climate, meaning that its weather is governed by strong, prevailing winds called monsoons. These winds create two seasons in Cambodia. During the wet season, from May To October, the monsoon winds blow from the southeast and bring torrential downpours of rain almost every day. They country receives between 75 and 80 percent of its yearly rainfall during this 6 month period. Even when it is not actually raining during the wet season, it is still very cloudy and humid. 
During the dry season from November to April, milder winds blow from the northeast. Rain is much less common, and sunshine replaces the clods of the wet season, Cambodia's total yearly rainfall varies from about 200 inches on the sea-facing sl0pes of the Cardamom and Elephant ranges to about 55 inches in the central lowland.

Plant and animal life

Cambodia is shaped something like a bowl. The flat center of the bowl is the central lowland, and its rising sides are formed by the narrow ring of savannah around the lowland and the steeper highlands toward the country's borders. Each of these regains has its own characteristic vegetation. Since the beginning of history, the central lowland has been given over to cropland., Rice is grown in flooded paddy fields, and corn, tobacco, and other crops are grown in dry fields, Marshy areas around the Tonle Sap and other water way are often covered with reed and lotuses, The nearby savannahs are covered with grass, which can reach height\s of 1.5 meters in the better-waters districts the lowland and the savannahs have many varieties of fruits and flowers, both wild and cultivated. The Eastern and northern forest have a thick undergrowth of bamboo, vines, rattan, and palm trees. From this tangled mass of vegetation rise the hardwood giants of the forest: mahogany, teak. green heart, and other woods prized by furniture makers and blat builders, Soaring as much as 30 meters above the forest floor, these hardwood would be the basis of a profitable timer industry if there were not so difficult to reach and harvest, Some scattered logging and forestry takes place west of Kracheh, The harvest timber is floated down the Mekong in giant rafts., with the woodsmen and their families living in huts on the top of their harvest.

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Cambodia in ASEAN

Asean is the community that is planned to create in 2015, that has 10 countries in the Western Asian Pacific area joined together to make buy and esuch as:

1. Cambodia (Currency: Thai Riel Capital: Phnom Penh)
2. Thailand (Currency: Thai baht Capital: Bangkok)
3. Vietnam (Currency: Vietnamese dong Capital: Hanoi)
4. Laos (Currency: Lao kip Capital: Vientiane)
5. Philippines (Currency:  Philippine peso Capital: Manila)
6. Myanmar (Currency: Burmese kyat Capital: Naypyidaw)
7. Singapore (Currency: Singapore dollar)
8. Indonesia (Currency: Indonesian rupiah Capital: Jakarta)
9. Malaysia (Currency: Malaysian ringgit Capital: Kuala Lumpur)
10. Brunei (Currency: Brunei dollar Capital: Bandar Seri Begawan)

Detail about Cambodia:

 1. Cambodia: Cambodia was known as the powerful Khmer Hindu-Buddhist empire in South-east Asia, that Cambodia currency is Riel.
Neighboring countries of Cambodia is Vietnam, Thailand and Laos. Cambodia nowadays has 25 Provinces/cities such as:

1.1.Banteay Meanchey (borders the province of Battambang to the South, Siem Reap to the east, Oddar Meanchey to the north and shares an international border with Thailand to the west. Its capital and largest city is Serei Saophoan, Poipet is a strip of casinos and hotels between the Cambodian and Thai passport control counters,  enabling Thais to gamble in Cambodia without needing to go through Cambodian immigration.).

1.2.Battambang (borders the province of Pursat to the South, Siem Reap to the east, Banteay Meanchey to the north, Battambang is well known for being the leading rice-producing province of the country. For nearly 100 years, The Sangkhae River (also spelled Stung Sangkae or Stung Sangké) is one of the main rivers in Battambang Province in north western Cambodia.).
 1.3. Kampong Chhnang (borders the province of Kampong Spe to the South,  Kompong Cham to the east, Kompong Thom to the north, Pursat to the west).
1.4.  Kampong Spe (borders the province of Takeo and  Kampot to the South,   Kandal to the east, Kampong Chhnang and Pursat to the north,   Koh Kong to the west).
 1.5. Kampot (borders the province of Kep to the South,   Takeo to the east, Kampong Spe to the north,   Koh Kong and Preah Sihanouk  to the west).
1.6. Kandal (borders the provinces of Prey Veng and Takeo to the west, Kampong Cham to the north, Prey Veng to the east, shares an international border with Vietnam to the south)
1.7. Kep (the smallest province of Cambodia, and it is in the whole of Kampot Province to the north and the sea to the south.)
1.8. Koh Kong (borders the province of Preah Sihanouk to the South,    Kampong Spe, Kampot to the east, Pursat to the north,   Koh Kong and the sea  to the west).
1.9. Kompong Cham (borders the province of  Kandal and   Prey Veng to the South,   Tbong Kmom to the east,  Kompong Thom to the north,    Kampong Chhnang  to the west).

1.10.  Kompong Thom (borders the province of  Kompong Cham and  Kampong Chhnang  to the South,    Kratié and  Stung Treng to the east,  Preah Vihear  to the north,   Siem Reap  and Pursat to the west).
1.11. Kratié (borders the province of  Tbong Kmom to the South,    Mondulkiri to the east,  Stung Treng to the north,    Kompong Cham and  Kompong Thom  to the west).
1..12. Mondulkiri (borders the province of Ratanakiri and  Stung Treng to the north,    Kratié  to the west).
1.13. Oddar Meanchey (borders the province of Banteay Meanchey and  Siem Reap to the South,    Preah Vihear to the east)
1.14. Pailin (the small province of Cambodia that is in the whole of Battambang Province to the north, south and east and shares an international border with Thailand to the west)
1.15. Preah Sihanouk (also known as Kompong Saom) (Preah Sihanouk is also the popular resort in sea for people around the world to enjoy during their vacation after Siem Reap that is the popular resort town as the gateway to Angkor Region.  Preah Sihanouk  borders the province of  Kampot to the east, Koh Kong to the north and the west and north are all interesting sea and island in Cambodai, Kingdom of wonder).

1.16. Preah Vihear (borders the provinces of Oddar Meanchey and Siem Reap to the west, Kampong Thom to the South, Stung Treng to the east and shares an international border with Thailand to the north. The province that has an ancient Hindu Preah Vihear temple built during the period of the Khmer Empire, and on July 7, 2008 that temple was also listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site after Angkor Wat temple that is located in Siem Reap Province).
1.17. Prey Veng (borders the province of Svay Rieng to the east, Kompong Thom  and Kompong Cham to the north, Kandal to the west)
1.18. Pursat (borders the province of Kampong Spe and Koh Kong to the South,   Kampong Chhnang and  Kompong Thom  to the east, Siem Reap and Battambang to the north).
1.19. Ratanakiri (borders the province of  Mondulkiri to the South,  Stung Treng to the west).
1.20. Siem Reap (borders the provinces of Banteay Meanchey and Battambang to the west,  Pursat to the South, Preah Vihear to the east and Oddar Meanchey to the north. Siem Reap is the popular resort town as the gateway to Angkor Region because there are many Hindu Buddhist ancient temples such as Angkor Wat that was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site because Preah Vihear Temple that is located in Preah Vihear province),
1.21. Stung Treng (borders the province of Kratié  Kompong Thom and  Mondulkiri to the South,   Ratanakiri to the east, Preah Vihear  to the west)
1.22. Svay Rieng (borders the province of Prey Veng to the  west and north)

1.23. Takeo ( borders the provinces of Kampot to the west, Kampong Speu to the northwest and Kandal to the north and east. Its southern boundary is the international border with Vietnam.)

1.24 Tbong Kmom (the area that is just created as a province in Cambodia by a royal decree signed on 31 December 2013 by King on the recommendation of Prime Minister,  Tbong Kmom  borders the province of Kompong Cham to the west, Prey Veng to the South,  Kratié to the north and shares an international border with Vietnam to the east, Its capital and largest city is Suong) including 1.25 Phnom Penh City that is the capital of Cambodia.

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