Introduction Whether you live in or visit Cambodia, the shadow of the Khmer Rouge is never too far away. The vast excesses of the regime dominated the latter half of the 20th century, and it was only within the last 15 years that trails began to take place for the leadership of Angkar. Everyone you […]

How to get the vaccine in Cambodia as a foreigner ? This has been quite the rollercoaster year for Cambodia, for a while it looked like the country had managed to escape the crisis that was coronavirus, and then things all changed, and quickly. On February 20th there was a community outbreak, which according to […]

There is to be a huge tourism boost for Anlong Veng, the small Cambodian border town with Thailand and former hometown Pol Pot and the last stronghold of the Khmer Rouge. The tourism boost for Anlong Veng comes from the work of the Cambodian Documentation Center (CAM-DC) and NGO who in charge of a number […]

As the capital and most important city in Cambodia Phnom Penh is a great place for tourists on the bamboo trail. There is also a whole other side to the city, we present our dark tourism guide to Phnom Penh. Despite what many think Cambodia is not only now very much at peace, but is […]

We have often been portrayed as purveyors of dark tourism, this is not something that bothers us and in fact we embrace the term, but are we as I was recently asked providing war tourism? Lets take a delve. What is Dark Tourism? We won’t go into too much detail here as it is better […]

Day of Hatred is not something you’d necessarily think to be a holiday in this woke era, but it is indeed a holiday in Cambodia. May 20th, is actually no longer known as the Day of Hatred, but as the Day of Remembrance. The county remembering the atrocities committed during the brief, but brutal rule […]

Introduction What’s it like to visit Cheung Ek Killing Fields? Cheung Ek was one of the most significant extermination camps and mass grave sites known as the Killing Fields. It was primarily used to kill and bury victims from the S-21 Prison. The site is also alternately spelled as Chokung Ek and Cheung Ek To […]

Introduction Who was Chum Mey? If you have more than a passing interest in the history of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge then at some point, you will most likely find yourself at S-21. S-21 was the most used and notorious of the Khmer Rouge torture and execution centers, which you can read about here. […]

Understand Cambodia is one of the jewels of travel to South East Asia and definitely a firm favourite of YPT. Cambodia might be considered very much on the beaten track, after all Angkor Wat alone gets close to 3 million visitors per year. But Cambodia has much more to offer to the intrepid traveler, such […]

Cambodia has been heavily shaped by its past, particularly the brutal rule of the Khmer Rouge which lasted between 1975 and 1979 under what was known as Democratic Kampuchea. What many people do not realize is that the Khmer Rouge dominated Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (CGDK; Khmer: រដ្ឋាភិបាលចំរុះកម្ពុជាប្រជាធិបតេយ្យ, Odthaphibeal Chamrouh Kampouchea Brachathibtey), renamed to […]