I don’t have an iPhone, but if I did, I’d have this nifty Guide from the fabulous Travelfish.org
Jemma Galvin reports for The Phnom Penh Post
Developers of a new application for the Apple iPhone say the travel guide will soon prove an essential tool for visitors exploring Cambodia’s tourist attractions
Travelfish, which produces original content on Southeast Asian destinations such as Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia, partnered with a South Africa-based development team to begin work on the project in September.
Stuart McDonald, the site’s co-founder, said he was confident travellers would find the program an essential tool when exploring Cambodia.
“A lot of the cheap apps in the App Store are just repurposed content from Wikipedia or Wikitravel,” McDonald said. “We believe our coverage is substantially better than that.”
He said firsthand knowledge from a Cambodia-based expat was used to gather the app’s information, with more than 40,000 extra words of content compared with the Travelfish online guide.
“We prefer to use researchers who live in-country rather than having people parachute in for short, speedy trips through the country,” he said.
The digital guidebook also includes coverage of villages on Tonle Sap Lake and other non-temple attractions.
The Angkor app doesn’t have a search engine. Instead, users flick through each section using iPhone’s swipe technology, which is more like reading a book than surfing the Net.
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