About us               

The Peace of Angkor Crew!

Phally, Savvy, Saam, Sokphanny, Reksmi & Ta

Colleen and I started Peace Of Angkor Villa in 2003; after moving to Cambodia in May of that year. We met such nice people and had really good experiences in Cambodia in our first visit in 2002. The prospect of an exciting new life in a fast developing country led to the decision to break from UK. 

We set  up our first Peace Of Angkor Villa in 2003  and  started taking in guests in October 2003.

Our success has meant that we rapidly outgrew our first home.  We moved to our  new villa at the end of September 2004.

With  more high quality rooms and a large garden; we give our guests a very high standard of accommodation and unique friendly family atmosphere. We do have a lot of fun here!

We are not an ordinary hotel but a Guest house in the true sense of the word

Here is a little more about us all

Dave Perkes: An ex digital cartographer; worked in procurement and contract management before leaving a desk job in a Civil Service agency for a new life in the far east. In his spare time has led groups of hill walkers around the UK and has had plenty of experience in travel in Europe and the East.

With 30 years photographic experience and 9 years spent perfecting digital photography techniques. Dave is happy to advise guests on digital and conventional photography. Dave wanted to come to the Angkor temples for many years.  Cambodia has proved to be a photographers paradise.

Dave at Koh Ker  

Colleen Allan-Burns: Born in Wales; Coll has spent most of her life in Hampshire and  travelled widely throughout UK and Europe.

After spending several months in England in 2007 she returned to Siem Reap in December. and is now enjoying life out here again .

Coll Pictured with our black cat Marmite

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We like to have a family atmosphere here and have a number of cats too!

Staff dining at Xmas                  Savvy and Bunet in Kitchen                                   

Marmite                                     Tiger and  Whiskey

The Peace Of Angkor Crew

Doun Raden "Den" is our Villa Assistant  Manager

He  has worked as a waiter and and has developed himself and his English skills by working in reception. 

We have now  promoted him to Reception Manager with full responsibility for front of house and also villa maintenance.

Reksmi has been with us since December 2003 Her name translates to 'Sunshine' She brightens up  breakfast with a smile :-)

Reksmi works as Housekeeper, cleaning and laundry as well as Reception and Waiting at tables. She Lives at a crocodile farm owned be her uncle.

She doesn't bite!

Reksmi at  work

Phally is receptionist; she started working for us as a cleaner , but we soon realizes she had talents and enthusiasm for work  as a receptionist so when the opportunity arose we gave her the chance.

Phally has been working  in reception for two years now.

Bunet: joined us in July 2004 as cook. Married with two teenage sons  she is  a very hard working and experienced.

Bunet can cook a range of Khmer Asian and Western dishes including pasta. kebabs, tacos and more. Her French fries and fruit pancakes are the best!

See updated Menu for a sample

Savvy works as housekeeper and  cook no 2 in the  evenings. She is a lively happy girl who is very eager to please. She  can do just about every task in kitchen and front of house.

In her time off  she enjoys playing tennis and partying!

Savvy dressed for a Party

Seth; our gardener and night Security. He is very helpful, serving drinks and assisting late arrivals. Set is learning English and the experience  with our guests is helping him a lot. His main interests are Keep fit and swimming.

 Seth in our garden

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 Tours & Transport

Chhor Elit; known as Ta (Old Man) youthful and with a keen sense of fun, Ta has been a temple guide for many years and has an in depth knowledge of the area.

Ta is a true professional and excellent English speaker and has been a key player in setting up and running our photo tour programme.  Ta and Dave run most of the remote temple tours; with Ta being a specialist in this field.

Ta takes photos himself and now often uses one of our digital cameras.  Ta  has a good eye for detail and understands how important lighting is to a photo. Ta has a keen interest in wild life and ecology. he is the perfect person to take our groups to the Prek Toal Bird Sanctuary.

 Ta  has a great rapport with people. He Has been known to organise teams of ox carts for our  cameras You will find an increasing number of his photos on our website in the future.

We have   several  guides who work regularly for us round the Angkor Temples and beyond   

They have fluent English, understand the needs  of our guests and are well used to Photographers and our unique style of tours.

He's a very affable guy who will tell you his life story if you can drag him a way from talking about the temples.

Phea as he is known by his friends, is married with young child. He is the life and soul the party and a king of Karaoke.

Thet is a really nice guy  who has a lot of knowledge and talent for taking people  around the temples .

He takes people on a different time frame from normal, to get to  places before the crowds.

He was married  15th December 07

Thet at the Bayon : Image by Shaolin Tiger

Pheng has worked for us since 2005.  He married in 2007 and has  one child . Pheng  is ery knowledgeable and patient. He is great with photographers.

Pheng; Left bringing umbrellas for our tour group in Ta Prohm

He is pictured right at Kompong Khleang with a Singaporean TV Film Crew; translating and assisting with a documentary on Tonle Sap Lake.

Prum Deth our regular minivan driver.  He is a very steady and stable family man. He drives on most of our group tours. Deth is a very competent and steady driver. 

He now drives a 15 seat Mercedes van which is ideal for our small group tours

Deth often suggests stops when he sees interesting things on the road ahead; so he does not mind the unscheduled stops that we often do!

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All images and text © Dave Perkes 2008 www.peaceofangkor.com