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Facts About Pailin

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The Traditional clothes of Pailin is Longyi, also known as Sarong. Kola men wear ankle-length patterns of checks, plaids or stripes “Longyi” in any kinds of color. The Men always wear their white eingyi shirt which has a mandarin collar and sometimes also wear a traditional jacket called teik -pon over their eingy. It has white, grey, black or terracotta colors. They put the Gaung Paung turban on their head and on their feet wear simple rubber or velvet slippers.


For Kola women’s calf-length longyi are in solid colors, flower prints and many kinds of designs. They soften have a red based color, with partial stripes or very small checks similar to what Mon wear. They also often have horizontal or vertical stripes at the middle part. Royalty traditionally wore a long dress called “thin-dai” decorated by many threads. It was always worn by a lord's daughter and the king of the province's lady.


The Women wears a beautiful blouse and a lovely shirt which know as eingyi. The shirt is decorated with several colors and many piece of silver. The shirt also has horizontal or vertical stripes at the middle part in some beauty color. Kola women tie a traditional shawl on their eingyi as well as they put the shawl on their shoulders. Women tie a lovely band on their head and wear beautiful flowers in their hair, allowing their hair to drop as a ponytail above their shoulders. They sometimes took a traditional umbrella made from baboom with them. The footwear is simple slippers of leather or velvet called Hnyat-phanat. All of these costumes were shiny with bright colors during celebrations. The clothing is very similar to what is worn by the Shan in Burma

Facts About Pailin

Bar Taing Su is another famous place. Many songs were written about this places. It is about 3 kilometers north of Pailin City. This place is one of the gem stone mining areas. The bridge you see in the picture below used to be a famous hanging bridge.

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Facts About Pailin

Points of Interest
Pailin is located 68 Kilometers west of the Capital City of Battambag. It is used to be part of Battambang province, but recently the Cambodian Government rezoned the area and make it one of the provinces of Cambodia. In the old days, Pailin was famous for gem stone mining. It is one of the best in Southeast Asia. It was just about a decade ago, the gem stone mine was depleted. Nowadays, Pailin looks more plain (see picture below) than when it was covered by deep jungle that housed many wild animals. (right: Pailin Provincial Center)
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The road to Pailin is very difficult as of summer 2009, but it will change soon. The road and bridges are being built and is expected to be complete before the monsoon season of 2009. It will take about one hour or little longer to get there from Battambang when the road is completed.

There is one famous place worth visiting if you are in the area. And that is Phnom Sampeo p3
where famous song writer Pov Sipho wrote many love songs.

There are a couple of other interesting place right in the city of Pailin, one of which is Phnom Yat (picture shows entrance stairway to the top of the mountain). Tourist now can drive up to top without having to use this stairway.

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