Go on holidays in Cambodia to experience a slice of intoxicating history, meet the incredibly friendly Khmer people and take-in the country’s breathtaking natural beauty. Cambodia feels like a bit of a hidden gem in Southeast Asia , with the landscape spans low-lying plains, mountains and Gulf of Thailand coastline.
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Cambodia’s is a country sandwiched in between Thailand, Laos and Vietnam with a 443 kilometre stretch of coastline in the south. The climate is tropical and due to most of the country being at a relatively consistent altitude and latitude there is not much of variation in weather patterns throughout the country. With a total land area of 181,035 kilometres squared it is the smallest country on mainland Southeast Asia. Cambodia can be considered bowl-shaped, the bottom of this bowl accounts for about 75% of the country’s interior which includes the Tonle Sap basin, the lower Mekong River flood plains and the Bassac River plain. These waters provide for the wetlands which are vast and centrally located and the annual flooding of the Mekong, which runs the length of the country, makes this highly fertile area good for agriculture. Surrounding these central lowlands are the walls of the bowl, mountain ranges to the north, east, south and south-west of the country rise up, but not to any great dizzy heights, with the highest peak of Phnom Aural reaching 1,820 metres. There are two distinct seasons, wet and dry, the wet season runs from May to October and the dry season from October to April. Let’s look a little closer at the differences between the two seasons.
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