Introduction to Cambodia

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Cambodia is a country that is firmly putting its past behind to embrace the 21st century. It is emerging as a vibrant, exciting tourist travel destination, offering an opportunity to step back into ancient history, get off the beaten track into a lush yet unpredictable rural countryside and to immerse in a kind and charming culture. It is a country where crumbling colonial buildings and tuk-tuks (motorized rickshaws) are juxtaposed with 5 star boutique hotels and trendy restaurants and SPA.

Cambodia and Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, which was limited in its troubled past attacked several times by two of its neighbors. He shares the mighty Mekong River in Laos and Vietnam. The river enters the country from Laos to the north and in its journey to the south, almost Cambodia is divided into two halves. The Mekong splits into two in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, before he stopped in Vietnam. One of its tributaries feed Tonle Sap (Great Lake), the largest freshwater lakeSouth-east Asia, which is south of Siem Reap is the nearest town to the temple complex of Angkor.

Like the Land of Smiles, Cambodia is known sweet culture practiced by Theravada Buddhism is influenced by most of its 13 million ethnic Khmer who live by significant minorities of Chinese, Vietnamese, Muslim Cham and hill tribes. Angkor Wat, the ancient temple in the center of a vast complex of Angkor in monumental stone structures, is a testament to the powerKhmer empire, which in the 11th century, reached its climax. At that time, including parts of the Khmer kingdom of Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. But with the demise of the Khmer kings in a slow weakening of power by the invasion by Thai, Vietnamese, French and Japanese, and then verified, the country was slowly chipped away at its present size, which is half of Germany.