Water festival to resume in 2016.

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Username Taken wrote:I went once, but will never go again.

The whole of the road along the riverside is wall to wall people. On one side they are walking north and the other side walking south. You have little choice but to go with the flow.
Pick-pockets all around you.
Good place if you want to look at people. If you want to watch boat races, you're better off staying home and watching it on tv.
2008, i lived on the "other" side and totally enjoyed the 3 day festival, it was not that crowded and all the boat crews were camped on the riverfornt. only made to to PP side one day
Where do the crews stay now?
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phuketrichard wrote:
Username Taken wrote:I went once, but will never go again.

The whole of the road along the riverside is wall to wall people. On one side they are walking north and the other side walking south. You have little choice but to go with the flow.
Pick-pockets all around you.
Good place if you want to look at people. If you want to watch boat races, you're better off staying home and watching it on tv.
2008, i lived on the "other" side and totally enjoyed the 3 day festival, it was not that crowded and all the boat crews were camped on the riverfornt. only made to to PP side one day
Where do the crews stay now?



Yea, 2008. I remember it well, It was a good year for girl gazing.

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Username Taken wrote:I went once, but will never go again.

The whole of the road along the riverside is wall to wall people. On one side they are walking north and the other side walking south. You have little choice but to go with the flow.
Pick-pockets all around you.
Good place if you want to look at people. If you want to watch boat races, you're better off staying home and watching it on tv.
I don't think i have been to watch boat racing at the riverside. I only went for walk in the evening. Right, I would never want to go there again it was all packed with all the combinations. The human odor was something that I was almost couldn't put up with. I thought I would be fainted at that time.
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Duncan wrote:Yea, 2008. I remember it well, It was a good year for girl gazing.
yep, only gazing, all of them looks like jail bait, becareful now
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the company i work for has an office in mindanao.
one of the staff members given names : honey glaze
swear to god

is that off topic?
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The hookers in PP will be happy :D
There are people who cannot imagine that there are other ways of life than their own life. :facepalm:
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timmydownawell wrote:
Samouth wrote:
timmydownawell wrote:
Samouth wrote:After that stampede accident, water festival is not something i fancy to see anymore. In general i really don't enjoy the water festival, just too many people and boring.
It'll be something new for me, but having read the Wikipedia article about the stampede I'll be careful where I go.

Cambodia needs event-driven tourism.


Yes that stampede accident was crazy. I was in Phnom Penh at that time, but I didn't leave my home at all for the whole three days. At that night, the whole city was chaotic and so many rumors about the accident circulated on internet and mouth to mouth.

Right, if you are planing to join this year water festival, you should be careful and don't ever hangout on the bridge and don't bring your own transportation mean.

BTW, water festival is kinda a thing for Cambodians from the countryside. It is pretty much a time where many people from the province to come to see the boat racing but pretty much to see the city.

Little salary, posted some interesting pictures she took on here before about the water festival that she attended. I guess she might has something to talk more about this festival.
Thankd for the info. I'll definitely check it out but yes avoid the bridge obviously and anywhere else with crush potential.
It shouldn't be too hard to avoid the bridge - it was demolished years ago and replaced by two others with a strict one-way system.
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Sidewalker wrote:The hookers in PP will be happy :D
Why would the hookers in PP be happy? The place gets overrun by hookers from the province. :evil:
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