Kampong Chhnang Province

      A classic example of a French colonial-era post office building seen here in the provincial centre of Kampong Chhnang, together with a beautiful example of a posting box outside the entrance, still in working order as of 2005.

                                       The Kampong Chhnang post office sign, above, together with a nice example of the French colonial-era railing that incorporates the international symbol for communications.  Below is a more modern and formal version of the provincial posts and telecommunications sign.

 The interior of the Kampong Chhnang provincial post office and the modern-day posting box.

The roller version of the provincial postmark in 2005, above, and the resultant postmark, below.

                  The well-worn provincial hand postmark in 2005, left, and the resultant illegible postmark, right.

                                                                         The third postmark variant available at the Kampong Chhnang provincial post office is the Express Mail Service (EMS) handstamp, left, and the resultant postmark, right.

    One of the entrances, left, to the Kampong Chhnang provincial post office, and the provincial post office boxes, right, available for rent inside the post office.

The postmark of Kampong Chhnang in:

1903    1908   

1936    1992   

    As can be seen from the above French colonial-era distance markers, Kampong Chhnang provincial post office is 201km's from Battambang (left) and 91km's from the Cambodian capital (right) along National Road Number 5.

Kampong Chhnang Provincial Centre

Below is the independence monument in Kampong Chhnang town, the administrative centre of the province of the same name; this version of the independence monument is a smaller version of that in central Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, and commemorates Cambodia's independence from France:

Below is a statue in central Kampong Chhnang town, close to the town centre:

The province of Kampong Chhnang is well known in Cambodia for production of eathenware pots of various kinds, as shown below:

Below are some of the older-style shophouses of central Kampong Chhnang town:

The Kampong Chhnang town bus station, below, with a regular bus service to/from the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, and periodic bus services each day to the provincial centres of Pursat, Battambang, Sisophon (Banteay Meanchey Province) and to Poipet on the Cambodian border with Thailand.  Local taxis can also be hired from this part of Kampong Chhnang town.

Fishermen, below, in their traditional handmade wooden boats on the Tonle Bassac river that leads upstream into the Tonle Sap lake of Central Cambodia.

Locally caught fish being prepared, below, for sale at Kampong Chhnang town market.  Fish and rice are the staple components of the traditional Cambodian diet.

A view, below, from the banks of the Tonle Bassac river at Kampong Chhnang town looking over to a small mountain that legend has it is a woman laying face-down on the ground with her legs on the left of this picture and her head as the highest peak of this mountain resting on her arm which is at the far right of this photo.

All photographs shown above are the copyright and property of Graham Shaw; all rights reserved.

Related Sites:

Tourism of Cambodia Travel Guide to Kampong Chhnang: http://www.tourismcambodia.com/travelguides/provinces/?ProId=5