Celebrating the New Year in Phnom Penh

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New Year’s Eve is widely celebrated inexpatriates. Though many Cambodians celebrate
Phnom Penh by European expatriate communitiestheir traditional New Year which is based on the
and Chinese and Vietnamese immigrants. Evenharvesting pattern of the crops on April 13th and
though it is not an official government holiday with14th each year, the International New Years Day
ever increasing immigrants and tourists arriving inis also recognized as an important event in the
Phnom Penh New Year’s Eve has comecountry.
to be celebrated in a grand scale.A large number of religious and cultural practices
Expect many of the city’s restaurants,have been built up around the traditional New
bars and hotels to be hosting special NewYear’s festival such as unique sporting
Year’s Eve dinner dances and partiesevents, religious rites and special culinary delights.