Cambodia Handbook: Travel Guide To Cambodia (Footprint - Handbooks) - Hardcover

Spooner, Andrew Dr

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9781907263200: Cambodia Handbook: Travel Guide To Cambodia (Footprint - Handbooks)

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ISBN 10: 1907263209 ISBN 13: 9781907263200

Publisher: Footprint Handbooks, 2011

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Enticing, exotic and energetic, Cambodia will get under the skin of any explorer. Footprint's 6th edition Cambodia Handbook covers everything needed to know to really understand this rich and diverse kingdom.

Southeast Asia's most beguiling country, Cambodia ticks all the boxes for a real adventure with its temples, jungles, white-sand beaches and manic cities. Loose track of time exploring the incredible ruins at Angkor Wat, or island hop around the south coast with its beautiful tropical beaches and relaxed towns. Footprint's full revised and updated 6th edition Cambodia Handbook contains unparalleled coverage of its background, history and culture. This guidebook also provides detailed listings on where to eat, sleep and play and is the perfect traveling companion for anyone wanting to experience this fascinating country.

The guide opens with a color section full of inspirational advice to help you plan your trip giving you a flavor of the best things to see and do. It includes suggested itineraries for a 1,2 or 4 week trip to ensure you see the best of what this exciting country has to offer. The guide then provides extensive, thoroughly researched information which will help you plan your trip as well as advising you on the ground. The Essentials section provides great advice on how to get there and how to get around as well as information on sleeping, eating, drinking and shopping giving you an idea of what you can expect to pay. The heart of the guide is broken in to the key regions with each regional section providing an overview map, local information on how to get around with transport and street maps where relevant, a short history of the region, thorough advice on what to see and do and a directory of key local information on banks, embassies, Internet cafes and medical services. A selection of useful Khmer words and phrases are also included.

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Andrew Spooner is a feature, travel and sports writer and photographer. His work appears regularly in the Independent on Sunday, the Independent, CNN Traveller, the Guardian, the Observer, GQ and Bike. After travelling to Thailand in 1989, Andrew developed a fascination with the country and now shares his time between Bangkok and London

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