Great Destinations

• Keeping in Touch in Laos

  The General Post Office (GPO) offers public telephones for national and international calls (Keeping in Touch in Laos). There are also card phone booths available. Lao Telecome Numphu Centre in Vientiane is useful for making international calls, domestic calls and sending faxes.

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• Things to see and do in Laos

  Head to the Boloven Plateau in Champassak province for elephant riding and trekking. Pakse, home to many ethnic minority groups, is the region's capital and the ideal base from which to explore the plateau.

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• Laos Weather climate and Geography

  Throughout the country, the climate is hot and tropical, with the rainy season between May and October when temperatures are at their highest, up to 35°C.

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• Laos History

  Laos was occupied during the fourth and fifth centuries AD by the Chinese from the north. Following that, it was subject to strong Indian influence from the eighth century onwards when it adopted Buddhism. For 200 years from the early 11th century, Laos was part of the Khmer Angkor...

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• Takeo

  Takeo province is often referred to as the cradle of Cambodian civilisation Takeo province has several important pre-Angkorian sites built between the 5th and the 8th century

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• Svay Rieng

  Svay Rieng is on of the smallest and sleepiest Cambodian provinces that just happen to have one of the country's busiest highways running straight through - National Highway No 1

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• Stung Treng

  Stung Treng is a northern province of Cambodia. It was formerly called Xieng Teng and was once a part of the vast Khmer Empire, then the Lao kingdom of Lan Xang and later the Lao kingdom of Champassack.

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• Travel by Air in Cambodia

  There is a hefty departure tax of US$20 on all international flights out of Pochentong airport in Phnom Penh. Well, someone has to pay for the damage inflicted during the fighting of July 1997. From Siem Reap, the international departure tax is US$ 10.

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• Cambodian Dances

  The epic poem of Rama (Ramayana) is believed to have been revealed to a Hindu holy man named Valmiki by Brahma, the god of creation. This religious literary work, dating from about ad 4, is known in various versions throughout India and Southeast Asia

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• Cambodian Language

  Cambodian language is spoken by approximately nine million people in Cambodia, and is understood by many in bordering countries. Written Khmer is based on the ancient Brahmi script of southern India. Arguably one of the oldest languages in South-East Asia

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• Khmer Music

  Khmer MusicKhmer Music in Cambodia - There are two kinds of traditional music: one is the Pin Peath with stringed and percussion instruments and the other...

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• Cambodia Communication

  Cambodia Communication - The advent of mobile phones has dramatically improved communications between the main towns. That said, many of the landlines destroyed during the Khmer Rouge era have yet to be replaced

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• National Parks in Cambodia

  National Parks in Cambodia - For much of the 1990s the country's national park system was little more than lines drawn on a map, but this is fast changing with assistance from the UNDP and assorted NGOs. The most important national parks in the country include: Bokor

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• Climate in Cambodia

  The climate of Cambodia is governed by two monsoons, which set the rhythm of rural life. The cool, dry, north-eastern monsoon, which carries little rain, blows from about November to February

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• Education in Cambodia

  Education in Cambodia - King Sihanouk took a lively interest in education early in his reign. Between 1953 and 1968 the number of primary students rocketed from 300,000 to one million.

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