Interesting Cambodia facts

Tonle Sap River twice a year reverses the direction of flow: it is derived from Lake Tonle Sap into the Mekong river, the opposite Local Khmers in Cambodia live cheaper than abroad. The Crime is not a Khmer living in Vietnam Cambodia a long time one dollar country, as it used to thank many foreigners. For one dollar is now here in the best case you can buy a mug of beer.

Angkor Wat the largest religious building in the world. This temple is older than any Egyptian and Aztec pyramids A thousand years ago, the great Khmer empire owned almost all the Indo-China: Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and part of the current Burma (Myanmar) and Malaysia. The ancient capital of Cambodia, the city of Angkor, a thousand years ago had a population of over a million people. For comparison: at the same time, in such towns as London, Paris and Rome lived not more than 50 thousand people Crabs and pepper from Kepa is so delicious that the taste of connoisseurs come from all over the world.

Khmer alphabet is included in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest in the world. Philologists and scientists do not understand how much exactly it letters and sounds. At least in the Khmer language has 29 vowels only. And according to - 54. Lake Tonle Sap, the main "fish bread basket" of Cambodia, is the record on the planet of abundance of fish per unit volume of water. In general, this is the most suitable place for fishermen! Would you like to swim in a luminous cloud? Then dip in the islands near Sihanoukville Cambodia!