They are unknown, drag a reputation of sleeping. These 5 capitals are in full economic, architectural and cultural awakening. To (re)discover.
Special Envoy to Phnom Penh
The swimming pool with metallic reflections seems to overflow in a cascade on the muddy waters of the river, suspended on the rectilinear horizon of the Mekong delta, crushed by the puffy clouds of the monsoon.
Like two worlds colliding, that of the thousand-year-old silty rice fields of Cambodia and that of the new planetary jet-set, expected by 2023 on this vertiginous terrace on the 55th floor of the tallest tower in Phnom Penh, and in the country.
“
The
Shangri-La
will change the image of the capital.
This means joining the club of large cities
», Proudly explains Rithy Sear, the owner of the place, comfortably installed in his office overlooking the marquetry of the roofs of the capital with a geometric layout inherited from colonial Indochina.
This former boat people, new tycoon of a Cambodia thirsty for the future...
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