Battambang Travel Guide
Battambang is Cambodia’s second most populous city and likely boasts the highest statue to resident ratio in the country. Ah, yes, the Battambang statues – every circle, every park, every plaza sports a statue. If you do visit Battambang, try to arrive by one of the many boats that are continually coming and going. The sight of 20 or so touts (locals trying to get you to stay in their particular hotel or hostel) swimming out to be the first to hand you a business card is definitely a sight for travel weary eyes. It’s a secondary hub on the overland route between Thailand and Vietnam, and if National Highway 6 from Poipet to Siem Reap is ever upgraded it’ll become an even smaller hub. The network of charming old French shop houses clustered along the riverbank is the real highlight here, and there are a number of wats scattered around the town. The small museum has a collection of Angkorian-era artefacts, and beyond the town there’s a number of hilltop temples, yet more wats and a large lake. Battambang is now a smooth, sealed 293km (181mi) bus or share-taxi ride from the capital.
There are many reasons to visit Battambang – the train from Phnom Penh goes there, it’s on the way to Pailin (casinos! rubies!), it’s an excuse to take a cramped speedboat ride from Siem Reap, or more seriously, it’s one of the best places in the country to observe the rural Cambodian way of life. Until the recent reconstruction of the Siem Reap to Poipet road, many travelers going overland between the two towns would detour by way of Battambang. Now that travelers can make the overland journey in three hours, Battambang is losing out on these overnight guests. So here’s a plug for Battambang.
The province is subdivided into 13 districts:
0201 Banan
0202 Thma Koul
0203 Bat Dambang
0204 Bavel
0205 Aek Phnum
0206 Moung Ruessei
0207 Rotanak Mondol
0208 Sangkae
0209 Samlout
0210 Sampov Lun
0211 Phnum Proek
0212 Kamrieng
0213 Koas Krala
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