Phnom Penh Images Gallery - Please Click Slideshow to Visit Collection

Located at the confluence of the Mekong and the Tonle Sap rivers, Phnom Penh is the largest city in Cambodia. In recent years, Phnom Penh has become increasingly pleasant though perhaps not "The Paris of the East" pre 1970s. The city's French colonial buildings are beautiful, and its streetscapes make for a pleasant walk, especially along Sisowath Quay down by the Tonle Sap River - in many respects the heartbeat of the city.


Phnom Penh Images Gallery - Images by John Lander

Sihanoukville Images Gallery - Please Click Slideshow to View Collection

Sihanoukville is Cambodia's premier beach town with miles of white sand beaches, picturesque islands and warm tropical waters. Founded as a port town half a century ago, these days Sihanoukville is now more of a beach town popular with weekenders from Phnom Penh and an increasing number of foreign visitors.


Sihanoukville Images Gallery - Images by John Lander

Kep & Kampot Image Gallery - Please Click Slideshow to Visit Collection

Kep was once Cambodia's premier beach town drawing weekenders to its shores with seaside villas of the privileged class. Nowadays the old villas are in ruins and the town is known more for its oceanfront seafood stalls and crab restaurants than for its beaches. The nearby provincial capital of Kampot is of quite a different character with quiet lanes, classic French colonial architecture and very few tourists all which lends Kampot a quaint, small town ambiance. Visitors come to Kampot as a base to trek or visit Bokor Hill Station a once-grand casino and the nearby beaches of Kep and it surrounding islands, particularly Rabbit Island.


Kep & Kampot Images Gallery - Images by John Lander

Tonle Sap Images Gallery - Please Click Slideshow to Visit Collection

The Tonle Sap appears to be just a nice big lake, but this body of water sets the rhythm and heartbeat of Cambodia. One of the most abundant sources of fish in Asia, the lake feeds a hungry nation. With its unique connections between lake and river, plant and animal, man and nature life on the lake and its shores has not changed much in centuries. Apart from scattered floating trading centers, families live in isolation as they have always done, moving their stilt houses further inland with changing water levels on the lake's shifting shores. If they are completely waterborne, merely pulling up anchor and moving elsewhere. Be it a lone fisherman checking his bamboo fish traps or an old woman boiling soup on her tiny canoe, lifestyles here have remained unchanged by the passage of time. Despite the playful kids, friendly waves and smiles of the people here, life has always been hard work.


Tonle Sap Images Gallery - Images by John Lander