Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Bodia Spa
SPA
( 023-226199;
www.bodia-spa.com
; cnr Sothearos Blvd & St 178; massages from US$26;
10am-11pm)
About the best rub-downs in town, in a Zen-like setting (albeit with some
street noise).
O Spa
( 023-992405;
www.ospacambodia.com
; 4B St 75; body massages from US$20; 11am-10pm)
An
oasis of calm with rejuvenating hot-stone massage, plus Balinese and Thai treatments, and
virtually no street noise.
SPA
Daughters
FOOT SPA
( 077657678;
www.daughtersofcambodia.org
; 65 St 178; 1hr foot spa US$10; 9am-5.30pm Mon-
Sat)
Hand and food massages administered by participants in this NGO's vocational train-
ing program for at-risk women. Shorter (15- to 30-minute) treatments available.
MASSAGE, SALON
Nail Bar
(
www.mithsamlanh.org
;
Friends n' Stuff store, 215 St 13; massages per 30/60min US$4/7; 11am-9pm)
Cheap manicures, pedicures, foot massages, hand massages and nail painting, all to help
Mith Samlanh train street children in a new vocation.
Seeing Hands Massage
MASSAGE
( 7.30am-10pm)
Helps you ease those aches and pains; helps blind masseurs stay self-suf-
ficient. Massages average US$7 per hour, making it one of the best-value massages in the
capital. There are several other cooperatives around town including
Riverside
(12 St 13)
and
St 108
(34 St 108;
8am-9pm)
.
Meditation & Yoga
Free one-hour Vipassana meditation sessions take place in the central
vihara
of
Wat
and Saturdays, and on Sunday morning at 8am. Warning: if you've never done it before,
an hour will seem like an eternity. It's OK to just do 20 or 30 minutes.