Water festival to resume in 2016.

[CEOCambodiaNews]

Photograph from Water Festival 2014.

Cambodia to resume water festival: PM
Published: 19/09/2016 17:35


PHNOM PENH, Sept. 19 (FN) — Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo HE said on Monday that the country will restart its annual three-day Water Festival this year after last year's cancellation due to low water levels.

This year's festival will be celebrated on Nov. 13, 14 and 15.

"Boat racing will be held on schedule this year," he said during a graduation ceremony at the Panha Chiet University here.

Water Festival is the biggest annual festival in this Southeast Asian nation, that sees hundreds of thousands of people from across the Kingdom travelling to capital Phnom Penh to enjoy boat races, to be held on Tonle Sap River in front of the Royal Palace.

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[Jamie_Lambo]

a wedding means im going to miss this for yet again another year, one day, one day

[kiwiincambodia]

Damn it,

Looks like I will be taking a holiday as to not get trapped again.

My apartment is near Wat Botom so i was locked in last year, I managed to walk to the pickled parrot where I stayed for 3 days on a massive binge until the roads reopened.

Good times!!

[Samouth]

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.

[timmydownawell]

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.

[Samouth]

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.

[timmydownawell]

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.

[Username Taken]

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.

[Duncan]

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.

And oh, so, so many beautiful girls. I go there just for the looks and big smiles.

[taabarang]

Most of the girls in our village have no desire to go since boys like to take advantage of the anonymity of the crowded situation and "luec stieup" (cop a feel). It's not just pockets that get picked.