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Battambang Tour by Yong, Battambang Town in Tourist information center, Battambang (2025)

10/07/2023

Bats fly with sunset view

23/06/2023

Banan Temple is located in Banan Village, Kantea2 Commune, Banan District, Battambang Province, 21 km from Battambang Town.

The temple was initially built in the middle of the 11th century by King Udayadityavarman II (1050-1066) , and was completed by King Jayavarman VII (1181-1219).

06/06/2023

Making rice paper is a traditional career and an attractive tourism product for residents living in Dounteav village, Peam Ek commune, Ek Phnom district, and Battambang province.

On the way along the stream from the intersection road of Daun Teav Market to Ek Phnom Temple, tourists are able to look at the tradition of making rice paper and the dying of rice paper.

For the Asia region, rice paper has been popularly used as a leading ingredient for making certain foods, especially foods eaten with fish sauce.

The rice paper is made from pure rice flour, taken to be ground mixed with water, and steamed, and finally, it is placed and dried on the bamboo panel with large cells and dried under the sunlight until it becomes dry.

Rice paper is a local product and is well known for its quality and taste in the local market.

15/05/2023

The 118 years old Battambang Historical Museum
Battambang Historical Museum was built in 1905 and is a former Battambang Provincial Hall.
Designed by an Italian architect, this heritage building was built as a residence for the former governor Lok Majas Katha Thon Chum when Battambang was under the control of Siam.
Katha Thon Chum was a member of the Baen family (House of Abhaiwongse) whose family governed Battambang for six generations.
After the return of Battambang to Cambodia through Franco-Siamese Treaty 1907, this building became a provincial hall for Battambang until 2005.
Currently, this heritage building is Battambang Historical Museum where visitors can appreciate the architecture of this historical buildings, traditional music equipments, history of the Lord Governors of Battambang and portraits of well-known artists who was born in Battambang.
Entrance fee is only 1,000 riel for Cambodians,
3$ for foreigner.

Location: https://goo.gl/maps/Pn4iTSqFr8HqPXdx6
Sourced: Tonsay

28/03/2023

#បឹងទន្លេសាប

Tonlesap Lake is the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia with a length of 116 km, a width of 30 to 33 km and a coastline of 482 km in the dry season. The Tonlesap Lake is the heart of Cambodia, invaluable in terms of society, economy, culture and environment.

The Tonlesap Lake absorbs about 20% of its annual flood from the Mekong River.
The extend of the Tonlesap Lake varies based on the season, the Tonlesap Lake covers an area of about 250,000 hectares with a depth of 1-2 meters, and in the rainy season, the lake covers an area of about 1,500,000 hectares with a depth of 8-11 meters.

During rainy season, 62% of the Tonlesap Lake comes from Mekong River and 38% comes from the 11 surrounding major rivers.
The volume of Tonlesap Lake varies from about 4.5 billion cubic meters in the dry season to 135 billion meters in the rainy season. The area of the Tonlesap Lake in the rainy season is 5-6 times larger than in the dry season.

The unique feature of Tonlesap Lake is the absorption of water from Mekong River during rainy season and the release of water back into the Mekong River in the dry season, which has become rare natural hydrological phenomenon. This has created large areas of wetlands and flooded forests, which provide habitat for biodiversity such as fish, birds, reptiles, mammals, and many species of plants.

The biodiversity of the Tonlesap Lake area includes 175 species of fish, 42 species of reptiles, 225 species of birds, 46 species of mammals and more than 200 species of plants. Although the Tonlesap Lake is the fourth largest freshwater fishery in the world and the largest fishery in Cambodia, the people living in the lowlands and floodplains of the Tonlesap are dependent mainly on fishing and agriculture.

The Tonlesap Lake is one of the top four fisheries producing areas in the world and contributes to most of Cambodia's freshwater fish production. Currently, the Tonlesap Lake and its basin area under increasing pressure from climate change, unproductive fishing harvests and other challenges that cause some difficulties for the people living around the area.

23/03/2023

Some reasons that all of you should spend your time visiting Battambang province.

For those who want to avoid the crowded places. Battambang is considered as one of the ancient cities in Cambodia. It is a good site to free yourself from complexity posed by busy works.

Sitting to get fresh air on the both sides of the Sangke River, located at the middle of the city. Battambang is homed to many French colonial architectures.

Battambang has also been regarded as a religious center with a number of over 100 aging - monasteries (constructed during the Siem colony).

Take to the countryside to experience new things which you have ever seen in your life (Bamboo train, flocks of millions bat with sunset time, atc).

Come to learn more about the war in Cambodia (killing cave, and killing field all about the Khmer rouge), Battambang province is the last stronghold of Khmer rouge armies.

For accomodations are enough, food and transportation prices are affordable.

One special is the smile of people 😊

It is just my thought😊

Come with me to experience new things

Contact for the tour in Battambang via WhatsApp: 010 865 810

21/03/2023

This month is so hot, I would recommend a half day tour is the best. Bamboo train and Batcave.

16/03/2023

Ancient people used Elephant carts for transporting large objects in the Angkorian period

Siem Reap: In the Angkorian era, the elephant cart was the largest vehicle for transporting materials for daily use on land. Transportation way by Elephant cart had two kinds - Elephant carts with wheels and ordinary elephant carts.

Elephant carts were commonly used as a vehicle or as a means of transporting materials and for travel to nearby places based on the needs of the people in the Angkorian period. Im Sokrithy, an archaeologist at the Apsara Authority, said “the largest means of transport on the land in the Angkorian period was by elephant cart”.

At the same time, transportation ways in the Angkorian era were also available in horse-drawn carriages, ox-carts, and on the backs of elephants”. With this, in the Angkorian period, in the lowland areas, ordinary elephant carts were also commonly used.

Whereas, Elephant carts with wheels were also used to transport materials to normal areas at that time. Elephant carts also played an important role in the social sector at that time. In addition, in ancient times, there were two roads for traveling and transporting materials: land and waterways.

These two roads worked well together. Besides, the ancient capital to the present is never far from the water. Therefore, waterways are important for traveling or transporting materials. This waterway was not only connected to the water network in the Angkor areas, but also connected to the sea.

13/03/2023

Aspect in Security Department of Wat Samrong Khnong

Sites of Inspection Post, Torture, Detention, and Accommodation of Khmer Rouge, Kitchen, Pond, Shower, Stool Place and Grave

Inspection Post

Before entering the security department of Wat Samrong Khong, there was an inspection post, located at the south entrance of the pagoda, 30 meters from the pagoda fence, on the right sidewalk outward from the pagoda.

Initially, the armies took the people houses to serve as hospitals, later the houses were converted to the Khmer rouge cadres' houses, and at the front of those houses was an inspection post, with a barrier to check before the people were allowed to get in and out from the security department of Wat Samrong Khnong.

The inspection post had played important role in checking the tickets and keeping the insiders of the security department informed, while there were major leaders came. In addition, the inspection post was a banned target, banning the people from absolutely passing.

But, if anyone had a righteous ticket from upper level, they were allowed to get through. The inspection post was inspected by a 13 year-old child selected by armies from children’s corps to inspect information and read letters of passing askers to armies and then ran to the armies inside the security department, if there were guests wanted to meet. The armies standing by there were shifted by on the morning there were two armies, and in the evening there were other two armies.

It should be informed that this inspection post, there was only in command of northwest zone militaries. When the southwest militaries came to govern, there was no such inspection post.

10/03/2023

Works of Inmates in Wat Samrong Khnong

Minor inmates in the security department were educated by forcing them to work with strict inspection. Working time was started from 7 AM to 11 AM morning and started again at 1 PM until 5 PM evening. Those works were agricultural works such as animals feeding (Pig, Cow, Chicken...), Daem Tontrean Khet, and Banan trees to make fertilizer for crops such as water peonage, cabbage, pumpkin, and seaweed, act.

Additionally, there were other works such as cleaning grass on the vegetable farm, where the location of work was located in the site of direct Wat Samrong Khong. For serious inmates were not allowed to go out anywhere, there were to be constantly in the detention center both day and night. Besides working time, all inmates were detained in their respective detention centers.

08/03/2023

Daily Diet for Prisoners in Wat Samrong Khnong during Khmer Rouge Regime.

Liquid porridge with vegetable soup being planted in direct site of pagoda was daily diet for prisoners in Wat Samrong Khon Security Department.

Per day, there were two times of diet distribution - were lunch and dinner. 3 Vek of porridge with about a spoon of rice grain were given to each prisoner per day because a pan of brown porridge was put only five cans of rice grain.

In addition to a liquid porridge, each inmate was given three Veks of soup without any meat at all, but with a bit of smell of Prahok such as water peonage and cabbage soups being cooked by shifting cookers every day. Some got a plate full-meal, while others got only middle because of spilling from the plates due to careless of cookers.

Every day at 11 Afternoon, armies rang the bell as a sign of resting time, everybody were to rush to get their diet. Normally, all minor inmates were required to stand in two lines with their hands carrying plate and spoon in order to go one by one to get porridge and soup. When they got the meal, they were to bring those meals to eat in their respective detaining buildings.

At 1 o’clock Evening, sound of bell was once again rung as a sign of telling all inmates were to be out for work, and they had to take plates and spoons to wash and keep at the plate and pot holder located under a small wooden house, and were to recognize their respective plates and spoons to be avoid of losing or confusing

At 5 o’clock Evening, the armies rang a bell again as a sign of resting time and come to get meal at the same place, and on the morning they were to take plates and spoons to wash and keep at the site as they usually kept before starting work.

Whereas, the serious prisoners by their foots were handcuffed not able to take a move, a couple of minor prisoners were assigned by armies at there to be food senders every days, by each serious prisoner was given two times of meal being the same amount of food as the minor prisoners got.

07/03/2023

History of International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day has been celebrated yearly on 08 March. The Day is an important day in proving the brave history of women around the world.

International Women’s Day (08 March) is a day, which has been celebrated by women around the world to commemorate and congratulate them. As an opportunity that is congratulated with an anniversary celebrated by women around the world, the United Nations also celebrates this day and many countries designate it as a national holiday. When women on all continents who have often been divided by national boundaries and by different ethnicities, languages, cultures, economies, and politics, come together to celebrate their anniversaries, they can recall a tradition that represents at least nine decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace, and development.

International Women’s Day is a common thing for women who are history builders. It has roofed in the women’s struggle for decades to contribute equally in society with men. In ancient Greece, Lysistrata initiated a sexual strike against men to end the war, and during the French Revolution, women in Paris called for "freedom, equality, fraternity", marching towards Hold Versailles to demand women's suffrage. The concept of International Women's Day first emerged at the turn of the century, in a world of industrialization, a period of expansion and turmoil, rapid population growth, and fundamentalist ideology.

A brief history of this event is arranged in the following chronological order:

In 1909 - according to a statement from the Socialist Party of America, the first National Women's Day was celebrated throughout the United States on February 28. The women continued to commemorate this anniversary until the last Sunday of that month in 1913. In 1910, the International Socialist Association convened in Manchester city to establish an International Women's Day to celebrate the women's rights movement and to help achieve universal suffrage for women.
The proposal was unanimously approved by a conference of more than 100 women from 17 countries, including the first three women to be elected to the Finnish parliament. No specific date has been chosen for this celebration.

In 1911, as a result of the talks held in Copenhagen last year, International Women's Day was celebrated for the first time (March 19) in Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland in those countries, there were more than a million men and women came altogether to support.

In addition to the right to vote and the right to serve the state, these women demanded the right to work, the right to receive training, and the right to end discrimination in employment. Nearly a week later, on March 25, a tragic fire at the New York City's Triangle Garment Factory killed more than 140 factory workers; most of them were Italian and Jewish immigrant workers. The event had an immense impact on labor law in the United States, and the disaster-stricken working conditions were sworn in during a series of ceremonies to mark International Women's Day.

From 1913-1914, as part of the pre-World War I peace movement, Russian women celebrated their first International Women's Day on the last Sunday in February 1913. Elsewhere in [Europe], on or about March 8 of the following year, women came together to protest against the war or to show solidarity with their sisters.

In 1917, with 2 million Russian soldiers, Russian women once again choose the last Sunday in February to strike for "food and peace". Political leaders had opposed the strike, but the women were still moving forward. Then, four days later, the Czar was forced to abdicate and the provisional government granted women the right to vote. The meaningful historic Sunday fell on the 23rd of February, according to the [Julian calendar = Calendar created by statesman Julius Caesar in 46 BC. 30 or 31 days, with the exception of February], which was then used in Russia at that time, but it fell on March 8, according to the Gregorian calendar (the revised Julian calendar, which is still used today).

Since the early years, International Women's Day has become a new global phenomenon for women in both developed and developing countries.

The growth of the international women's movement, which was reinforced by the four United Nations Global Women's Conferences, had helped mark the anniversary as a rallying point for mobilizing forces for women's rights and women's participation in the political and economic process. International Women's Day is becoming more and more a time to reflect on the progress made, to call for change, and to celebrate the acts of courage and commitment of ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of women's rights.

07/03/2023

I am available for tour.

01/03/2023

Hello, I'm Lydie and you were m'y tuk tuk driver one day in Battambang (Friday 03 February). I wrote this text on a French Forum (le guide du routard) and I hope it will be good for you. I'm back in France and it's very cold. I hope every thing is ok for you.

28/02/2023

Interrogation and Torture on Inmates in Wat Samrong Khnong.

All prisoners sent to Wat Samrong Knong complex had their names, dates, and primary questioning recorded in advance in order to determine their identity and the types of arrested prisoners who were found seriously and minor guilty or innocent before being decided to be jailed or released. Commonly, the primary interrogation was done with the presence of the security department’s two armies to do interrogation and record personal information.

Of two armies, there was one as questioner and recorder of the inmates’ confession, while another one stood near for protection. The inmates were required to take a seat on a wooden chair with their hands placed on top of each other, to answer all asked questions without any left time for consideration provided. However, there were some inmates were not permitted to sit when there were first being questioned. All confessed answers by inmates were recorded in a book using a pen.

Interrogation without punishment was done for slight inmates, while serious prisoners were many times violently interrogated by two or three armies every two days a time if the confessed answers were unacceptable. The first army was a questioner and confessed answers recorder, the second army was a protector, and the third and fourth armies were torturers by beating, kicking, and shocking electricity derived from igniting a CL-branded motorcycle. Frequently, some other inmates suffered being punished by suffocating by inserting heads into a clear white plastic bag and diving heads into jars sometimes got unconsciousness.

27/02/2023

of Inmates detained in Wat Samrong Khnong

“Arrest, Detention, Questioning, torturing, Killing, Working and Diet of the Prisoners”

1. Prisoner Arrestment and Torture

The majority of prisoners were sent to Wat Samrong Khnong Security Department between 1970 to 1978 by commune soldiers and Chhlob during the revolutionary organization (Angkar Pakdivath) launched researching and arresting internal spies that are the main tasks through Chhlob and frequently recording background in accordance with a slogan “Dig the Grass, Dig the Roots”. Inmates sent to Wat Samrong Khnong Security Department were the former police, armies, family members, civil servants, teachers, doctors, Me 10 Khnang (team leader), Me 50 Khnang (Commune Chief), and the rich people in the Republic Regime, at.

Additionally, there were inmates who were common citizens, including newcomers, and old citizens who were charged with committing immorality, stealing rice and food, avoiding assignments, or committing mistakes by making damages to the collective’s properties, as mistakes going against with revolution.

Numerous new inmates were subsequently sent in at night after the previous prisoners were killed down and there was little release made due to no mistakes. The inmates sent in were tied their hands back (tie a parrot) by cow rope or hammock rope and a few soldiers followed. The sent inmates sometimes were alone or in groups.

Frequently, the prisoners sent in groups were up from two or more. Their hands were tied from one to another by using a long rope. However, there were other inmates who were immediately arrested at the site nearby the security department without their hands tied. While some others who got sick and were unable to walk were put in hammocks and transported out by oxcart from homes or hospitals to be detained at the security department.

Generally, the women inmates were separately detained from the men prisoners. The armies of the security department and Commune Chhlob were different in making arrests for the prisoners. The armies were responsible for arresting the inmates who were involved in the previous regime (Khmer Republic Regime) such as the formers of police, armies, civil servants, rich people, and family members, while Commune armies were in charge of arresting prisoners who committed wrongdoings in their communes or collectives and those who committed immorality (men and women steal to love each other) being regarded as seriously committed prisoners.

27/02/2023

Located about 7.5 km, at the east side of Sangke River, on the way towards the Banan Resort, when arrived at the entry gate of the Kampong Ampil pagoda, the tourists are able to take a look at a suspension bridge, named Kampong Ampil, made of wood, wire, and steel, going through the Sangke River to get your pictures with beautiful landscapes of the Sangke River, and also take your time visiting an classical monastery, built during the Lord governor era, with a plenty of Buddha life related-statues, being pretty special for those keen for finding out the Buddhism.

On top of this, just take a little bit walk along the riverside - 200 meters more, all of the tourists will arrive a place, where there are a number of Cham ethnic minorities are residing, also called fishing village, because at there, in the Sangke River, many fishing boats containing fishing tools, with a few tiny houses and fishes are being fed on the boats as well.

Recreational activities available there are: finding out activities of fishing people (Cham people), landscapes sightseeing, looking at crops, vegetables, fruits, producing smoking fishes, and the selling of fishes, meat, vegetables, fruits by the Cham ethnic minorities, act.

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