Cambodia Travel contains Cambodia travel guide, Cambodia travel tips and travel advice, Cambodia destinations, Cambodia highlights and travel photos, pictures and images for Cambodia. Paradissa's team travels through Cambodia for several years updating our website to ensure our web visitors are well armed with practical tourism guide and useful travel information, and all things you need to know before making your trips to Cambodia.
The first census on Cambodia's people and population was carried out in 1998 finding that the Cambodia's population was 11.4 million and annual growth rate was 2.8%. The capital city of Phnom Penh was home to 1.2 million people and other populous areas included Sihanoukville, Siem Reap, Battambang, Takeo, Kompong Cham and Kompong Thom.
Cambodia is a very traditional society which is strongly governed by traditional family values and Buddhism. It's much recommended that the foreign travellers in Cambodia know and respect the Khmer culture while wandering in the country.
The Cambodian language is Khmer which has been influenced considerably by Pali and Sangkrit from India. Also, the Khmer language is influenced by spoken and written Thai. Some technical terms are borrowed from French. Khmer is different from those in the neighboring countries that it is not a tonal language. Khmer is very similar to that in the neighboring countries that it can be very precise in expressing matters related to agriculture, nature, sentiment while not very conveniently expressing scientific definitions.
Thearavada Buddhism is practiced by 95 percent of the population and is recognized in the constitution as the state religion. Besides, Christianity is small, but is growing in urban areas like Phnom Penh. Muslim is practised among the Cham people. Taoism and Confusianism are practiced among the Chinese people. In the mountains, animism is dominant among the hill tribes.
Public holidays mean a lot of governmental offices, shops, banks, embassies closed which may affect your travel in Cambodia. Some hotels require compulsory dinner on certain occasions. Some public holidays in Cambodia are based on the Gregorian Calendar and most based on the Lunar Calendar.
A guide to food and drink while traveling in Cambodia.
what travelers and tourists need to know about arts and entertainment in Cambodia.
This article contains a guide to health matters for tourists and travelers in Cambodia: How to stay healthy when traveling in Cambodia, what vaccinations needed before travel in Cambodia, diseases in Cambodia, illness in Cambodia, things to know about travel health in Cambodia.
Below is a brief guide to money and banks, accepted currencies in Cambodia.
This article contains travel guide and tourism information as to post and telecommunications in Cambodia, to to send posts from Cambodia overseas, how is internet access in Cambodia.
Below you can find brief information regarding passport and visa for Cambodia and how to apply an entry visa for the country.
Most people travel to Cambodia to visit the Angkor Temples, but surely there are other activities you may like to do on your holiday to this beautiful country. Below you can find useful information as to things to do, travel and tour activities in Cambodia.