Holiday!

Lots of this to come I fear...

With the seasonal flurry of bank holidays back in the UK almost here, VSO Cambodia have released details of the Cambodian public holidays we can look forward to in 2011.  Feast your eyes on this, I'll keep a running total beside each date!  

(NB. As in the UK, where the holiday falls on a weekend the Monday becomes the day off.)

1^st January (1)

International New Year's Day

7^th January (2)

Victory Over Genocide Regime

18^th February (3)

Meak Bochea Day

8^th March (4)

International Women's Day

14^th, 15^th & 16^th April (7)

Khmer New Year's Day (or should that be days, plural!)

1^st May (8, this is the total number in the UK)

Labour Day

13^th, 14^th & 15^th May (11)

Birthday of His Majesty Preah Bat Samdech Preah Boromneath NORODOM SIHAMONI, King of Cambodia

17^th May (12)

Visak Bochea Day

21^st May (13)

Royal Ploughing Ceremony

1^st June (14)

International Children & Cambodian Children Day

18^th June (15)

Birthday of Her Majesty the Wueen-Mother NORODOM MONINEATH SIHANOUK of Cambodia

24^th September (16)

Constitution Day

26^th, 27^th & 28^th September (19)

Pchum Ben

29^th October (20)

Coronation Day of His Majesty Preah Bat Samdech Preah

  Boromneath NORODOM SIHAMONI, King of Cambodia.

31^st October (21)

Birthday of His Majesty King Father Preah NORODOM

  SIHANOUK of Cambodia.

9^th November (22)

Independence Day

9^th, 10^th & 11^th Nov (25, I guess the 8th or 12th will become a holiday because of the overlap with Independence Day above...)

Water Festival

10^th December (26)

International Human Rights Day

So that's 26 in total.  Even with the royal wedding bonus next year this is still three times as many as the UK, even more if you bear in mind that two or more bank holidays in a week means that lots of people will see that as fair game to take the whole week!