How old were you when you first visited Cambodia? Poll.

Sheepdog · Post by **Sheepdog** » Mon Feb 05, 2024 7:44 pm

I was 27 - seems like a long time ago!
I guess it kinda is.. back in 2013

Tommie · Post by **Tommie** » Mon Feb 05, 2024 8:00 pm

First visit was i April 2001. I was in Kuala Lumpur and got bored and decided to visit a friend in Bangkok. However, when I reached the airport all the flights to BKK was full for days. I got on a plane to PNH ( the plan was to take a bus to Bangkok), but I ended up in Walkabout Hotel. Not a boring place. After five days I got in a taxi to Sihanoukville where my friend from Bangkok met up with me. I spent a full week in Sihanoukville and fell in love with the place.

Have been visiting Sihanoukville every year since, untill the covid thing happened.

Sheepdog · Post by **Sheepdog** » Mon Feb 05, 2024 8:10 pm

I was 27. It was back in 2013. Good times! Some crazy ones! Still here time flies eh

BklynBoy · Post by **BklynBoy** » Mon Feb 05, 2024 8:34 pm

I visited first time for a 2 week program related to "TAB" Teachers Across Borders. My dad knew someone who was running the program and figured would be a change of life type of experience ( i think)..
That was in 2010 and came back every year since. In 2011 or 2012 I stayed for 2/3 months - summer trip and got an apartment thru someone I met in 2010. Right near "The lost room restaurant" on street 21.

That was definitely before Aeon Mall opened. I loved the little community in that area and get an apartment every year in same area.

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Mon Feb 05, 2024 10:00 pm

A manufactured incident, I'm still not sure what anyone was trying to achieve.

johnny lightning · Post by **johnny lightning** » Tue Feb 06, 2024 5:50 am

Age 35 in 1996. Loved the "wild west" anything goes atmosphere. Seems kind of bland now.

rgrowden · Post by **rgrowden** » Tue Feb 06, 2024 6:59 am

I retired at age 62, 11 years ago. Had been working in Riyadh for 5 years. I figured Cambodia was about as far removed from Saudi Arabia as I could get, and I was right. Day after I landed, I went to Riverside, stopped at a Happy Pizza. Bought a bag of weed, took it back to the hotel, caught my first buzz in years. Ahhh. Still here. Aaaaaaaannnnnnnd loving it.

YaTingPom · Post by **YaTingPom** » Tue Feb 06, 2024 8:04 am

I know a guy who first came to Cambodia in about 2012. He now tells everyone he has been in Cambodia for 12 years.
What he fails to mention is he only comes here for 4 - 6 months and wasn't even here for two years over Covid but still tells everyone "Been living in Cambodia for 12 years" etc etc

In my eyes if you are not "all in" then Cambodia is not your home. You are a tourist.

In that case I have been living in SE Asia since 1992.

Brody · Post by **Brody** » Tue Feb 06, 2024 8:44 am

Arrived in June 2009 at 32 years old and didn't step foot outside Cambodia until July 2021 and haven't been back since.

Will return for visits once the sprogs get a bit older.

That is one regret I have though, I wish I had traveled the region whilst there. I would have loved to have spent some time in Burma and Laos.

But Cambodia kept me plenty busy, so I never got around to it.

Cambodia, she's a fickle mistress.

phuketrichard · Post by **phuketrichard** » Tue Feb 06, 2024 10:02 am

I'd like to hear from the guys that voted under `18?
did u come with ur parents?

I didn't get to asia/se asia till i was 25

I am a member of the fb group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/1702950456599867
some great stories/photos
it was an amazing time to be around this area.

I know a guy who first came to Cambodia in about 2012. He now tells everyone he has been in Cambodia for 12 years.
What he fails to mention is he only comes here for 4 - 6 months and wasn't even here for two years over Covid but still tells everyone "Been living in Cambodia for 12 years" etc etc

My brother is law is like that ( married to my partners sister)
he first came in 2011 and only spent 1 month /year till 2021when he finally moved over, yet tells people 10 years back than

when people i meet in person that i dont know, ask how long i have been here , i tell them about 1 month.

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