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Dining With Horses: The Nature Lodge Lives Up to the Nature Part of Its Name
Last year, Claire Duffet gave us the low-down on the Siem Reap Hotel Scene. But this year, she's taking us off the beaten path to some of Cambodia's Remote Hotels. Any questions or suggestions? Let us know.
Mondulkiri is one of our favorite places in Cambodia. Just south of Ratanakiri in eastern Cambodia, the two provinces make up the country's remotest and most rural region, where ethnic minorities and waterfalls abound. Mondulkiri's capital, Sen Monorom, is set atop a plateau, making it the coolest and most comfortable place in the hot, sticky Southeast Asian nation.
Instead of wet jungle, you get rolling hills, sparse trees, and instead of hardened city residents, you get lovely locals who will welcome you into their homes or offer you a ride on the village elephant.
About five minutes away from the main town, which is a challenging, uphill, 12-hour drive from Phnom Penh, is an oasis-within-an-oasis, Nature Lodge.
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Knai Bang Chatt brings WASPy to SE Asia
Last year, Claire Duffet gave us the low-down on the Siem Reap Hotel Scene. But this year, she's taking us off the beaten path to some of Cambodia's Remote Hotels. Any questions or suggestions? Let us know.
While visiting Kep’s many hotels, it’s quickly apparent that the seaside town--as opposed to sprawling, seedy Sihanoukville--wants to be upscale and subdued. Refreshingly for Cambodia, development here for the most part, seems slow, careful, and planned. One hotel owner told us he was banned from building on the road where King-Father Sihanouk’s old mansions are located. We were happy to hear it.
Listed among Conde Nast Traveler's Hot List 2007, and with rates that start at US$110 a night, Knai Bang Chatt isn't trying to be anything but the very best. The setting is sublime -- three main buildings sit upon a landscaped lawn estate with a sizeable horizon pool accompanied by a wooden lovely, open-air restaurant along the waterfront that serves up fine, very healthy, food.
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Stay in High-End Bungalows in Pol Pot's Hometown
Last year, Claire Duffet gave us the low-down on the Siem Reap Hotel Scene. But this year, she's taking us off the beaten path to some of Cambodia's Remote Hotels. Any questions or suggestions? Let us know.
Kampong Thom is usually the town travelers pass through en route from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap. Set on the Stung Sen river, this backwater town is also the jumping off point for visiting Sambor Preykuk, ruins from the Chenla period predating the famed Angkorian temples to the north, as well as Phnom Santuk, a rundown hilltop temple similar but inferior to Udong in Kandal Province.
It’s also the area from which Cambodia’s most notorious despot, Khmer Rouge "Brother Number One" Pol Pot, hailed. About a half million people reside in the province, Cambodia’s centermost, and its terrain is how one envisions the country’s landscape, with flat, green rice fields being plowed by villagers on water buffalo extending as far as the eye can see.
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Ratannakiri's Terres Rouge Offers More Than Red Dirt
Last year, Claire Duffet gave us the low-down on the Siem Reap Hotel Scene. But this year, she's taking us off the beaten path to some of Cambodia's Remote Hotels. Any questions or suggestions? Let us know.
Banlung is Cambodia's most far-flung provincial capital and retains the Wild West atmosphere of a rough, rural town that once gripped the entire country. It's at least 12 hours' drive (or a precarious propeller-plane flight) from Phnom Penh, over roads that are mud pits during rainy season and dust clouds during dry season.
For those who make it to the country's northeasternmost region, tucked in the jungly "dragon's tail" between Laos and Vietnam are rewarded when they arrive at Terres Rouge, a lakeside resort set on expansive, green grounds with a pool, spa, and a restaurant with fantastic French cuisine.
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A Beautiful Hotel, Minus the Unexploded Bombs and Human Remains
Last year, Claire Duffet gave us the low-down on the Siem Reap Hotel Scene. But this year, she's taking us off the beaten path to some of Cambodia's Remote Hotels. Any questions or suggestions? Let us know.
If Cambodia isn’t remote enough for you, there are regions within this Vietnam-Thailand sandwich that are even more difficult to access, with hours-long rides on bumpy, red dirt roads from the nearest airport cities of either Siem Reap or Phnom Penh.
However, some of the lodgings hidden deep inside Cambodia’s jungles, in its remote towns, or atop its forested hills, offer historic charm, quiet beauty, and luxurious rewards for those willing to brave the dust, heat, and blasting karaoke music on some of the world’s most uncomfortable bus rides.
This week, we’ll bring you five of the countries most remarkable—and inaccessible—luxury hotels.
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Siem Reap Hotel Guide :: Of Course, Amansara Is Fit For A King
It makes sense that, after a long day of visiting Angkor Wat, the famed temple ruins of Cambodia, that one should retire to Amansara, the five-star hotel in the adjacent town of Siem Reap.
That's because, throughout the 10th, 11th, and 12th centuries, Khmer kings vied for glory by one-upping each other and building the most impressive temples honoring themselves, and, secondly, the popular Hindu and Buddhist gods of the day.
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Cambodia Hotel Guide :: Boutique Cambodia Hotel Found in Kompong Cham
HotelChatter and Jaunted Contributing Editor Claire Duffett is now reporting from Cambodia and this week she is giving us the low-down on the hotel scene. Any questions about accommodations? Send 'em to us and we'll get them answered for ya.
With its French influence, it's a wonder there aren't more boutique hotels in Cambodia. Too often, it seems the chasm between bargain basement hostels and opulent resorts is vast. The omission of midrange hotels and boutiques mirrors the absence of a middle class here.
Sokleap Guest House sticks out of Kampong Cham. The city, a two-plus hours driving distance from Phnom Penh, makes a nice weekend trip for residents of Cambodia's capital. It rests along the Mekong River, with renown pagodas and villages all short boat or moto rides on tree-lined streets away.
For $10 a night, guests have a soft bed with sturdy sheets, water, tea, and a bathroom with a separate shower that isn't perched over the toilet. The $20 double rooms come with two large beds, a wide porch, and rare-to-behold sight in Cambodia--a bathtub.
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Cambodia Hotel Guide :: Basic Amenities In Cambodia Equal Bliss
HotelChatter and Jaunted Contributing Editor Claire Duffett is now reporting from Cambodia and this week she is giving us the low-down on the hotel scene. Any questions about accommodations? Send 'em to us and we'll get them answered for ya.
The Cambodian aesthetic, at least when it comes to buildings they think will appeal to Westerners, involves fluorescent lighting, cold, white tiles, and ceilings high enough to make make Yao Ming look petite. Still, austere-but-comfortable hotels can sometimes be a welcome respite from dusty streets, squat toilets, and markets lined with hanging raw meat.
Mekong Hotel, in Kampong Cham, lacks any semblance of atmosphere. Still, this lumbering building along the Mekong River offers large, clean rooms with air conditioning, hot water, views of the water, and a close proximity to the Western bars and restaurants. For masochistic, prideful backpackers and volunteer workers who don't like to treat themselves but find themselves in the quiet Cambodian city, at $12 a night, it's a stealth way to sneak in a little comfort.
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Cambodia Hotel Guide :: The Queen's Hideaway
HotelChatter and Jaunted Contributing Editor Claire Duffett is now reporting from Cambodia and this week she is giving us the low-down on the hotel scene. Any questions about accommodations? Send 'em to us and we'll get them answered for ya.
Despite the clout of Raffles Hotel Le Royale, Phnom Penh's most popular 1920s-era hotel isn't the imposing colonialist establishment, but instead a small boutique hotel called The Pavilion in a quiet neighborhood near the Tonle Sap river and National Museum.
Comissioned by the king's grandmother so she could pray at the nearby Buddhist temple, the hotel fuses French and Khmer (Cambodian) architectural styles. Today, the hotel's owners do their best to add modern amenities to the historic building. Visitors can use the hotel's free WiFi from platform beds in the gardens, or take a dip in the giant swimming pool or the new Jacuzzi.
A few visitors complain that the old structure leaves something to be desired with the small bathrooms and fickle plumbing system, and bedroom views range from beautiful overlooks of the pool and garden to a full shot of the cement wall surrounding the structure. Rates start at $40 per night.
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Cambodia Hotel Guide :: Historic Raffles Hotel Le Royale
HotelChatter and Jaunted Contributing Editor Claire Duffett is now reporting from Cambodia and this week she is giving us the low-down on the hotel scene. Any questions about accommodations? Send 'em to us and we'll get them answered for ya.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital, has distanced itself from its sordid past. Hotel Le Royale, now part of the five-star Raffles chain, was built in 1929 during the heyday of French imperialism. There, writers and journalists rubbed elbows with royalty and dignitaries. It was all very Casablanca, Southeast Asian-style.
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Cambodia Hotel Guide :: An Eco-Lodge At The End Of The Rainbow
HotelChatter and Jaunted Contributing Editor Claire Duffett is now reporting from Cambodia and this week she is giving us the low-down on the hotel scene. Any questions about accommodations? Send 'em to us and we'll get them answered for ya.
Look closely. Tucked at the bottom of this mountain covered in dense foliage sits an arch of bungalows connected by an outdoor veranda. A few weeks ago, our friends at Jaunted wrote about an escape at the foot of the Cardamom Mountains in Southwest Cambodia called Rainbow Lodge.
Dubbed Yellow, Orange, Red, Green, Indigo, and Blue, the hotel's six bungalows each has a porch, a large bathroom, and clean, smooth tile floors. It's roughing it for those who don't love to rough it. The facilities are brand new (it opened earlier this year) and everything at this eco-friendly lodge runs on solar energy.
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