Funny, the Phnom Penh photo shows the royal palace but is captioned as &quot;The Independence Monument&quot;, which is a radically different-looking structure. Doesn&#x27;t matter though, I guess. Phnom Penh used to have a lovely sleepy backwater-town feel just a few years ago, but it has kept &quot;developing&quot; and crowding up like crazy, to join the ranks of other South-East Asian capital cities in terms of smog, perma traffic jams, corporate skyscrapers, generic investor&#x2F;developer-style condominiums etc. Still an awesome city in the region though.