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Yeah, but he's not referring to the old lakeside. He said "boung ek lake". Most likely he liked to hang out at Choeung Ek.lordofmisrule wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 7:54 pmBeen to both and frankly preferred walkabout to the old lakesidesaigonjackpot wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 3:12 pmPP dies in the arse when they closed walkabout , but hey I never lived in KoW ....frank lee bent wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 3:07 pm i am surprised there is no aussie bar opened along there called walkabou
What would I know im just a stupid tourist...........
Most on here probly never been to boung ek lake or walkabout...........
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See, they dint even know what it is, Perhaps PPs most iconic travelers hot spot in history and they havent a clue.......Username Taken wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 9:31 pmYeah, but he's not referring to the old lakeside. He said "boung ek lake". Most likely he liked to hang out at Choeung Ek.lordofmisrule wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 7:54 pmBeen to both and frankly preferred walkabout to the old lakesidesaigonjackpot wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 3:12 pmPP dies in the arse when they closed walkabout , but hey I never lived in KoW ....frank lee bent wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 3:07 pm i am surprised there is no aussie bar opened along there called walkabou
What would I know im just a stupid tourist...........
Most on here probly never been to boung ek lake or walkabout...........
I also been to stung mean chey when the dump was still there, that slum was horrible.
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I think he means Boeung Kak. My wife and I had quite a nice house on the lakeside back in the late 90's. By around 2005 it had become a backpacker ghetto and we moved out.Username Taken wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 9:31 pmYeah, but he's not referring to the old lakeside. He said "boung ek lake". Most likely he liked to hang out at Choeung Ek.lordofmisrule wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 7:54 pmBeen to both and frankly preferred walkabout to the old lakesidesaigonjackpot wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 3:12 pmPP dies in the arse when they closed walkabout , but hey I never lived in KoW ....frank lee bent wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 3:07 pm i am surprised there is no aussie bar opened along there called walkabou
What would I know im just a stupid tourist...........
Most on here probly never been to boung ek lake or walkabout...........
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Yes, well, doctors are reknowed for getting high on their own supply.Kuroneko wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2017 9:50 amI think he means Boeung Kak. My wife and I had quite a nice house on the lakeside back in the late 90's. By around 2005 it had become a backpacker ghetto and we moved out.Username Taken wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 9:31 pmYeah, but he's not referring to the old lakeside. He said "boung ek lake". Most likely he liked to hang out at Choeung Ek.lordofmisrule wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 7:54 pmBeen to both and frankly preferred walkabout to the old lakesidesaigonjackpot wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 3:12 pmPP dies in the arse when they closed walkabout , but hey I never lived in KoW ....frank lee bent wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 3:07 pm i am surprised there is no aussie bar opened along there called walkabou
What would I know im just a stupid tourist...........
Most on here probly never been to boung ek lake or walkabout...........
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They didn't know what it was because there are about 50 different neighborhoods around the city with "Boeung" in the name, and not one of them is called "Boeung Ek".saigonjackpot wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2017 8:12 amSee, they dint even know what it is, Perhaps PPs most iconic travelers hot spot in history and they havent a clue.......Username Taken wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 9:31 pmYeah, but he's not referring to the old lakeside. He said "boung ek lake". Most likely he liked to hang out at Choeung Ek.lordofmisrule wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 7:54 pmBeen to both and frankly preferred walkabout to the old lakesidesaigonjackpot wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 3:12 pmPP dies in the arse when they closed walkabout , but hey I never lived in KoW ....frank lee bent wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 3:07 pm i am surprised there is no aussie bar opened along there called walkabou
What would I know im just a stupid tourist...........
Most on here probly never been to boung ek lake or walkabout...........
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I assumed he meant Boeung Kak, I first saw it in 99 I think when it was ok but was starting to be too backpacker to be that great already, just round the corner also on the adjacent side of the lake was a majorly seedy red light area with no red lights, just wooden shacks on marshland with wooden paths going to them, so seedy, curious as to which street that has morphed into now, could it be 71? Surely not? It was kind of like chicken village in snooky but more marshy and dark, anyone remember that?John Bingham wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2017 4:24 pmThey didn't know what it was because there are about 50 different neighborhoods around the city with "Boeung" in the name, and not one of them is called "Boeung Ek".saigonjackpot wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2017 8:12 amSee, they dint even know what it is, Perhaps PPs most iconic travelers hot spot in history and they havent a clue.......Username Taken wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 9:31 pmYeah, but he's not referring to the old lakeside. He said "boung ek lake". Most likely he liked to hang out at Choeung Ek.lordofmisrule wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 7:54 pmBeen to both and frankly preferred walkabout to the old lakesidesaigonjackpot wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 3:12 pm
PP dies in the arse when they closed walkabout , but hey I never lived in KoW ....
What would I know im just a stupid tourist...........
Most on here probly never been to boung ek lake or walkabout...........
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Yep, that's a pretty accurate description for 99. That would be street 70, not 71.
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70 thanks, its changed somewhat now eh!Username Taken wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2017 7:38 pm Yep, that's a pretty accurate description for 99. That would be street 70, not 71.
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Yeah, everything has changed since then. Phnom Penh today is not the city it was when I arrived here.
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I was first there the same time. That was a dodgy area around north of the lake, past the French Embassy. It was all brothel shacks for a few hundred meters. I got brought there after me and a mate had bought a couple of beers and played pool a bit with our drivers. It was 2 AM and I wandered about a bit but was kind of freaked out cos the place was dodgy as fuck, I thought there were Chinese gangsters everywhere but thinking back they were probably just local ones. I didn't hang around long, that street is a bunch of banks, modern shops,offices and schools nowadays.lordofmisrule wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2017 7:23 pm
I assumed he meant Boeung Kak, I first saw it in 99 I think when it was ok but was starting to be too backpacker to be that great already, just round the corner also on the adjacent side of the lake was a majorly seedy red light area with no red lights, just wooden shacks on marshland with wooden paths going to them, so seedy, curious as to which street that has morphed into now, could it be 71? Surely not? It was kind of like chicken village in snooky but more marshy and dark, anyone remember that?
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