Wat Botum Park — Attraction in Khan Daun Penh

Great open space leading away from the Royal Palace area that is popular with families and young people for picnics, playing and of course, public exercise classes. Go there for people watching in the early evening and for the lights and fountain display (not working when I visited later in evening around 10pm).

Go in daylight if you want pictures of the socialist realist statue Cambodian-Vietnamese Friendship Memorial dedicated to the liberation of Cambodia by Vietnamese forces in 1979. There is also a golden stupa memorial to 16 demonstrators killed by a hand grenade thrown in to a crowd in more recent years.

Once you have walked the length of Wat Botum away from the Palace, you can join another walk way that is also traffic free and leads to the...

I talked about the Cafe. First, no menu. They asked you to come to the counter reading the wall menu. Then they charged 1.99$ for a hot matcha tea instead of 1.5$. Still ok, right? Then they asked you to pay now. Still o.k., right? Then you asked a glass of water. They said they only sell water. Then you said ok. They brought you a small bottle of Osani and asked you to pay right away 0.5 cents while you get it for half a price outside. Then you went out, and they didn't even look at you or saying thank you.

If you like such a place, it is a go-place. I will never go again until I might hear they improve. Plenty of cool cafes in Battambang you can enjoy, so...

The northern half of this park is being renovated, the nice things about it; In the morning many monks are crossing the park from the monastery in the north east corner to the temple on the west side, so photographers can get nice photos of the morning sun illuminating their orange robes. In the evening the plaza at the southern end fills with locals who are doing group dancerobics and young students playing soccer. The dancing continues after sunset. There is a funny golden chicken kind of thing statue in the northern part, a monument with a statue in the center. Not a must-see park but a good route to take between nearby sites of interest with a...