Battambang Tours

Battambang Cottage Industries An update and some fresh photos of an earlier post describing a tour of some of the traditional Battambang cottage industries included on our tuk-tuk tour of Ek Phnom District in Western Cambodia. The morning tour kicks off with a look at a few of Battambang City’s sites, including some examples of French-period architecture, the old governor’s…

Battambang The town of Battambang in western Cambodia is traditionally considered the country’s second city after Phnom Penh although, by now, the construction explosion in Sihanoukville and Siem Reap’s extensive tourist infrastructure and influx of migrant workers probably challenge this status. Today the town sees a steady, albeit limited, number of visitors and while lacking Angkor Wat, or the capital’s…