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Arrival and information
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Pochentong Airport
, Cambodia's international gateway, lies 6km west of the city centre. The terminal has a tourist information desk (opening hours variable), with a list of hotels and travel agents. There's a post office, where you can make domestic and international calls and send faxes; and a Foreign Exchange Bank kiosk (Mon-Fri 8.30am-3.30pm). Licensed taxis are operated from a counter directly outside the terminal building; these charge a flat fee of $7 for the journey into the city centre. If you want to get straight down to some haggling, head out to Pochentong Boulevard, outside the airport, where you're free to negotiate your own fare - reckon on around $4 for a taxi, $1 for a moto.
Trains pull into Phnom Penh station, a crumbling art-deco delight situated centrally at the corner of Pochentong and Monivong Boulevards. Most buses draw up near the southwest corner of the central market. Pick-ups will either draw up here or drop you off somewhere in town. Express boats dock at the terminal north of Friendship Bridge.
For
tourist information
, don't expect much joy at either the Phnom Penh Tourist Office at 313 Sisowath Quay (Mon-Fri 7-11.30am & 2-5.30pm; tel 023/724059) or the Ministry of Tourism on Monivong Boulevard at the corner of Street 232 (Mon-Fri 8-11.30am & 2.30-5.30pm; tel 023/426876). Most guesthouses and hotels have more reliable information.
Capitol Guesthouse
has set itself up as the tourist guru in the absence of official information, though, naturally, they will try and pedal their own tours. Other useful information
for tourists (each section contains more specific sub-sections): |
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Cambodia,
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