Kampong Cham Province

The central post office, below, in the provincial centre of Kampong Cham Province of Eastern Cambodia:

The official sign, below, at Kampong Cham Provincial Post Office:

Inside the Kampong Cham provincial post office, below:

The older-style French-language posting box, below, inside the Kampong Cham Provincial Post Office:

The post office boxes within the Kampong Cham Provincial Post Office, below, numbered 0300 to 0349, available to the public for rent:

The Soviet-era sign, below, located at the entrance to Kampong Cham Provincial Post Office:

Located at the entrance to Kampang Cham Provincial Post Office:

One of the many statues, below, located throughout the centre of Kampong Cham town, Kampong Cham Province, in Eastern Cambodia:

A scene in central Kampong Cham town, below, near to the ferry terminal for boats to Phnom Penh, Kratie and Stung Treng:

Another statue in central Kampong Cham town, below, with French colonial-style houses in the background:

Below, French colonial-style houses, refurbished, in central Kampong Cham town:

Here is an example, below, of a makeshift truck put together using various components and scrap and a lot of ingenuity, variations of which are seen all over Cambodia, especially in rural areas, where they are used for a wide range of haulage duties; this one is seen in central Kampong Cham town:

The bridge spanning the River Mekong at Kampong Cham town, below, built with funding from the Government of Japan, and a major logistical link between central and eastern Cambodia:

A typical house, below, located on the banks of the River Mekong in Kampong Cham Province in Eastern Cambodia:

Another fine example, below, of one of the many statues of central Kampong Cham town:

A painting of then Prince Norodom Sihanouk in military attire, below, adorns this well-weathered government building in central Kampong Cham town, an example of how some buildings - as well as images of Sihanouk - from the 1960's have survived to the present day in Cambodia:

Skun, Cheung Prey District, Kampong Cham Province

The post office of Skun in the centre of Cheung Prey District, below, one of several districts of the large province of Kampong Cham in Eastern Cambodia.  Outgoing mail items are sent to the Provincial Centre of Kampong Cham town for franking and forwarding to their respective destination.  'Cheung Prey' in the Cambodian (Khmer) language roughly translates as, 'the leg or root of the forest', in English.

The Cambodian (Khmer) language sign, below, showing that this is the post office for the town of Skun in the District of Cheung Prey, Kampong Cham Province:

Fruit sellers at the side of the road, below, in Skun, the capital of Cheung Prey District, Kampong Cham Province:

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Related Sites:

Tourism of Cambodia Travel Guide to Kampong Cham: http://www.tourismcambodia.com/travelguides/provinces/?ProId=4