Let me share my first impressions about Cambodia and my top 10 takeaways from this beautiful country. This post will give you valuable insights and insider tips into what to expect while visiting Cambodia.

Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, offers an eclectic mix of Khmer culture, French colonial architecture and a deep dive into the gruesome past of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime. Don't miss the stunning Royal Palace of Cambodia and the infamous Killing fields under the Khmer Rouge regime.

A visit to the Choeung Ek Genocidal Centre, famously known as the Killing Fields, followed by a tour to the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, is an unsettling experience. The fact that one man, a political despot, Pol Pot, could steer a civil revolution to the point where almost three million innocent Cambodians were killed mercilessly by their own people within a span of four years, from 1975 to 1979, is truly baffling.