Phnom Penh vacations
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You really should hurry up to see the city of Phnom Penh in the today state, as it is still genuine and out of the mass tourism.
Colonial villa in Phnom Penh
The city of Phnom Penh was grounded in the XIIIth century, when enemies conquered the Cambodian capital of Angkor Wat. The local ruling family took then a stupa, which is a ritual statue, from Angkor and settled the new capital at Phnom Wat (Phnom was a local wealthy widow very useful and important in this operation). You can still visit today the Phnom Wat and the originally stupa. It is nothing very spectacular, but the surrounding park is magnificent. Almost 100 years long, up to 1953, Cambodia was ruled by the French colonial empire. They brought a major contribution to the development of Phnom Penh, who became the Pearl of Asia. The city was almost totally rebuild, and in many places there still are traces of the French colonial style in architecture and way of life
