As a Cambodian KZreadr, I want to say that I really appreciated the quality of your video, as well as your articulate and accurate description of the city. You've earned another subscriber!

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you, I appreciate it! I’ll check out your channel when I have a little more time (last minute prep for another trip right now) but I’m certainly interested in the experiences of an expat living there. Do you ever go to Embargo and Riel Brewing? 2 of my favourite spots in the city with great folks!

@SecondLifeTravels1

10 ай бұрын

@@ChrisKermis Yes, I've been to Embargo!

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Next time you see Kimmo there say hello from me 🍻 As always, I’ll be back!

@phlezktravels

9 ай бұрын

Cambodian based* 😋

@Harki146

9 ай бұрын

​@ChrisKermis more catholics this is what we need.

Excellent KZread video of Phnom Penh! Now I’m sure to visit next month October 2923! Let’s look forward and not dwell on the past!

@ChrisKermis

9 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏🏽 If you’re looking for a place for good beer in the evening pop over to Embargo and say hello to my friend Kimmo

You deserve a like👍

@ChrisKermis

7 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Hey mate, Kiwi/Khmer in New Zealand watching this as I am going back to the homeland for a holiday at the end of this month and really enjoyed your story telling in this video. Absolutely can't wait to go back and see the progression since I went there in 2019 and of course to see the rest of my family. Churr bro :)

@ChrisKermis

8 ай бұрын

Hey glad you enjoyed it, have a great trip back!

The best quality video

@ChrisKermis

9 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏🏽

@ChrisKermis

9 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏🏽

Enjoyed your video, very well put together 👍

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you, I appreciate it!

Another great and insightful video!

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Best I’ve seen. Thanks. Subscribed

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you, appreciate it!

Great video, Chris!! Appreciate you sharing these sites 👍🏻

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! It was certainly a tough one to get right

Just the intro nearly made me cry like I did at that memorial nearly 10 years ago when I visited. My heart was breaking just taking in the horror of what had occured :( I really want Cambodia to thrive and blossom into the great nation it should have always been. Remember sitting at that same riverside bar too. Really need to head there with my wife as she's never been

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

I felt it impossible to make a video about Phnom Penh and Cambodia without including a short part about the past. I also with for Cambodia to thrive though I'm worried seeing the amount of money that appears to be flowing in from other countries. My favourite spot nowadays for a beer is Embargo, though that didn't make the video.

@dimitar297

7 ай бұрын

How can we trust the historical record when current events are so decisive for example the pandemic many people don't think it really happened. Perhaps denying the official account is forbidden thereby erasing all access to alternate retellings.

Awesome video Chris.

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Enjoyed this video. Thank you Chris!👌👍

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! This one was one of the more difficult ones to put together

Thanks bro.

Hello from Phnom Penh! Has changed a lot!! Great Channel!!! :)

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Hey thanks, glad you like it!

Very good video

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏🏽

great vdo

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Thank you for presentation about my country

@ChrisKermis

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Thanks for your positive view 🙏🏽🥰

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching 🙏🏽

nice video

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Cambodia🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭

I am well travelled. Cambodia has heart and soul like nowhere else I have ever been. It's the people. If you show you respect and appreciate their culture, they will show you more humanity than any other culture I have ever known. Cambodia people are real. The west was like that 50 yrs ago but not any more.

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

It’s an amazing country that I’ve kept returning to. I really hope that the culture and soul of Cambodia isn’t consumed by the expansion of powerful neighbors

My favorite travel channel

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! 🙂🙏🏽

កម្ពុជា❤ Cambodia thanks you

Thank you for showing the dark history. It’s essential to understand this wonderful country and not experience it superficially

@ChrisKermis

7 ай бұрын

Exactly the way I see it

Just for contact everything that you mentioned at Koh Pich except the yellow building it’s not deserted. If you go at the right time, you will see a completely different situation where 100 and00s of people are there. Love your video by the way.❤

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Sounds like I need to pop back in the evening and see next time I’m there!

Cheers, mate! Any photography from your visit 17 years ago?

@ChrisKermis

9 ай бұрын

Not many, but there’s a few at the end of the video 🙂

Cambodia bueatiful 🇰🇭🇰🇭

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

It certainly is!

Very interesting and insightful tour of the city. We spent a new years there once but we really were only there for a day or two and we stayed on the far side of the river away from the city and then rented a motorbike and took it off out to a Buddhist monastery on silk Island, I think it was called. Hope to visit again someday. This was a nice reminder of the good times we had there. ~JB

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

It really is an interesting city and one I keep returning to when I'm in the area. It's certainly still worth visiting and does still have a lot of its soul left.

You were wrong about the restaurant alongside the river in Koh pich island, it is similar to night market, it is only opening during evening to mid-night. So it is not close.

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Certainly a good reason to revisit next time I’m in Phnom Penh. Anything you would recommend on the island?

@visalserei

10 ай бұрын

@@ChrisKermis It is better at night, many crowd, especially teenagers go to Koh pich island to visit coconut park, camping at the parking lot with their car and eating street food along the Street. Koh Pick Island is the most crowded place during night time.

Welcome to Cambodia 🇰🇭

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Why do the streets look so clean there compared to here in Manila? 🥺

@gosnooky

9 ай бұрын

Because of the ASEAN summit and the SEA games, the government wanted to showcase a clean city for the world.

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@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

love your video Chris, very informative

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you, glad you liked it!

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I too was there 2006, saw a shooting when up on balcony in walkabout. Went back 3 or 4 times. I loved Lakeside, long gone. Mixed feelings about going back, like BKK, sky scrapers don't do it anymore. Sihanookville looks decimated. But they say progress is progress.

@ChrisKermis

9 ай бұрын

I do kinda miss the Phnom Penh of years past and certainly lakeside though I still like visiting there for what it is now. Kampot was good when I visited there just before covid hit.

St. 172 gets a lot of young backpackers too, and there are also some good restaurants there. It’s more diverse than you mentioned.

@ChrisKermis

9 ай бұрын

Yeah that’s true actually, there’s some pretty cheap hotels there. Forgot I even stayed there myself one night but didn’t really like it so moved on. I guess for the younger backpacker scene maybe it replaced lackside.

@markopolo8845

9 ай бұрын

@@ChrisKermis Yes, I think some of the restaurants like La Dolce Vita actually moved over from the Lakeside.

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Do you have any videos showing the nightlife in Cambodia? I just visited Thailand for the first time since covid. It has changed a lot. I'm looking for a new country to explore.

@ChrisKermis

4 ай бұрын

No videos I’m afraid. I tend to just shoot during daylight hours as my camera equipment is bad in low light. Nightlife depends what sort of thing you’re into of course. Personally Embargo and Reil Brewing are my top spots in Phnom Penh (I like craft beer and fairly relaxed nightlife). The area which Embargo is in has really come up with a lot of bars and restaurants in little alleys. Street 308 also has a lot going on nowadays. Riverside was an old classic but I think it’s not fun like it used to be.

Welcome to my country, Cambodia 🙏

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@PhyNarith_OfficialTrip

10 ай бұрын

@@ChrisKermisYou're welcome

@PhyNarith_OfficialTrip

10 ай бұрын

@@ChrisKermis You're Welcome

@PhyNarith_OfficialTrip

10 ай бұрын

🙏🇰🇭

🇰🇭🙏❤you

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

12:28 All Those restaurant open at night! not in the afternoon.

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Ah I thought that might be the case

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Koh pich you need to go at the evening time will be more people. Normally pub, bar, restaurants there open at the evening

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

I'll be sure to revisit in the evening next time!

6:31 It's called Ganesha, Hindu gods represent knowledge and prosperity, son of Shiva. According to the Hindu mythodology, Ganesha was born with a human head same as others. But someone slandered him for some huge mistakes, and his father beheaded him. Later Shiva found out that Ganesha was innocent, so he ordered his angels to find any dead body of an animal with the head to the east, and the angels found a dead body of an elephant, they then used it as his head.

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

That's interesting, I'm awarre of Ganesha as a Hindu god but did it's not something I expected to see at a Buddhist temple

@SopheakdeyMoeun

10 ай бұрын

@@ChrisKermis Buddhism in Cambodia is kinda mixed in some places because we were previously following Hinduism. However, nowadays, there are some people who try to explain to other people that this is pure Buddhist, that is not Buddhist, etc.

take a shot every time he says "when i came here ___ years ago"

This article is about to show the interesting facts about Cambodia. Ankor wat Facing to the west, because our ancestors built this monument for the future even, when the second sun comes ,the west will become to be the east , and a very even will happen in Cambodia. You know a richest country in the last day ,that your Bible says An island in the east and the island in the west, where ? It's Cambodia , not Philippines. Our ancestors still alive, they are preparing for a time comes, they do meditation and live in a deep inside of mountains. Sorry i forgot how English called it. (Kanal) We are Khmer but the word khmer was written in complex style ,was read as khem mac rac not khmer. When Thai occupied Cambodia they read this word as khmen(r) not in the complex style, in normal style, so the word khmer was born , so we have to names khmer and Khem mac rac. Khmer had the killing field because of Vietnamese they pretending to be khmer, impostor like Pol Pot , even Hun Sen , too. Now Hun Sen is pushing khmer to very danger of nuclear by giving land to China, our ancestors, too predicted that...

It’s no longer wild east. Well atleast for the capital and other big city of the country.

I don’t get the happy pizza thing

សួស្ដីអគុណដែលបានមកទស្សនាប្រទេសកម្ពុជា កម្ពុជាគឺប្រទេសដែលមានសង្រ្គាមច្រើន តែកម្ពុជានៅមានការតស៊ូអោយប្រទេសមានការអភិវឌ្ឍ នឹងមានសន្តិភាព

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching, I hope I’ve shown Cambodia and Phnom Penh in a good way

Pol Pot mother Thai-Laos and father Chinese, Pol Pot never bloods group of Cambodian, Pol Pot die 1998 and Pol Pot army surrender, Cambodia 28 year civil war long than War World 2. 1999 - 2014 Cambodia politic crisis, 2015 open development, 8 year for fasted GDP growth. My uncle is death in Pol pot era, The Cambodia peoples always hurt when they see someone talking a bout that. (Never forget)

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to respond. There's no way to really put the horrors of the past into words, but I feel it is important to also tell a small part of this story rather than just show what Cambodia and Phnom Penh is now. As you say, what has happened must never be forgotten. I hope I have managed to do so in a respectful way.

@Sastrakhmer

10 ай бұрын

@@ChrisKermis Thank for coming and good introduced for touching heart, good luck & have a nice trip 🙏

@pleng6678

10 ай бұрын

Pol Pot was Sino-khmer, what he did was horrific but there’s no need to put a xenophobic background to justify this tragedy

I know it spells Koh, but the way you say it is “Goh”, it means island. 😊

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

I never knew is was said like that

i swear to god if he say phnom penh incorrectly

interesting sights, but it seems their government is building just for the sake of building without much thought behind the projects. As a tourist if I go there I want to see the traditional Cambodian buildings; modern skyscrapers don't interest me in the slightest.

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

I hear you. The rapid expansionism and foreign investment has a big risk of taking not just the architecture but the culture from Phnom Penh and Cambodia. Covid may have set things back but the Chinese influence is growing ever stronger I think.

What I don't really understand is the WEST countries politics still oppress Cambodia until without thinking about how horrific story that this country and her people gone through , it seems like they want to step on this country throat till it death at some point. Shame on the WEST humanitarian and cruelty spirit toward Cambodia people

@AwesomeDude272

10 ай бұрын

How are they suppressing you? Your government is suppressing your own people. Same in the West, btw.

Who is Khom? The latest research done by Chiang Mai University in collaboration with an international research team has examined DNA samples from Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Burma and Cambodia, compared with DNA samples from ancient humans found in archaeological excavations of each country. Compared to the current ASEAN DNA As a result, Thailand is close to Vietnam, Laos and Indonesia, but Burma and Cambodia are separated. People who lived during the Khom civilization is a pedigree South Indian Mon which is not found in Cambodia This clearly indicates that Khmer is not Khom and Khom Warman was completely eradicated from the present Khmer faction, which had no Khmer ancestry. This coincides with the story of Nai Tang Wan (Mr.Sweet Melon) Rebellion who established himself as a later king with the eradication of the Varman dynasty and theories. Diva Sarug Khmer according to the Sap Bak inscription It was just a savage village recruited for slave labor. (China-Zhou Da Guang's record)

Awesome video Chris.

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! 🙏🏽

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Theres too many buildings and no where near enough people yet. I assume much of it is laundering. Diamond Island for example is a ghost town near anough. I returned after 10 years myself. Massive difference. I miss the old days but there seemed to be a lot more younger kids doing well, in school or Uni and Barangs arent attractions anymore. Which is good. As long as theres hop for the youth there (even if theres still plenty without) and theres a lot more now than there was.