Banteay Kdei Siem Reap

This morning I was wide awake and raring to go at 6:45am! I was very excited about exploring and seeing the temples. Today was going to be a highlight of my trip and something I had been looking forward to before we left England. We met our Tuk Tuk driver at 8:45am and then drove for 20mins to the entrance gate where we bought our tickets. It cost …

Après Lara Croft, here comes Gabyyyy!!! C'était notre deuxième tournée de temples aujourd'hui et ça ne finit plus! Trop, c'est comme pas assez!! En venant ici je croyais visiter quelques temples, 5 ou 6, mais le sites comprend plus de 50 temples. Ouf!! Tous sont impressionnants. J'ai pensé à ma soeur Mélanie aujourd'hui; le dernier qu'on a visité …

So we took a night bus from Sihanoukville to Siem Riep. It has to be one of the worst journeys we have been on yet - mainly due to the fact that the road was very badly maintained and our driver wanted to get there as quickly as possible. At one stage we hit a pot hole so fast that both of us thought the bus was going to tip over. We were also held …

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Due to the exhaustion from the previous day we decided that we will take a late start. The routine was simple pack up the bags for the day and head out with Mr Veriak. The usual happened in every temple. People come and try to sell you scarves, souvenirs, water and everything possible. By the afternoon after a few more hundred …

Was planning on having a bit of a sleep in before the small tour today but some arseclowns one road over decided that wanted to play horrible Cambodian music that sounds worse than cats stuck under a running shower from 5:30. Extremely loudly, I've hear softer bands at pubs.

Turns out the sun decided it wanted to shine today, so I could&# …

So today was one of those carnival days where the avalanche of pictures and temples feels like a giant whirlwind of color that becomes nearly impossible to untangle without some rest time afterward. It's just wholly ironic that the route I undertook (of my own accord) retraces the classic Little Circuit (great minds think alike?), which turns out …

This was the second day of the visit to the ancient city of Angkor. The main highlight of this day was Ta Prohm, the site where famous American actress, Angelina Jolie, starred as Lara Croft in the movie "Tomb Raider". Like the day before, the same tuk tuk fetched us from the guest house to Angkor city after breakfast. We told the driver that the …

Kambodsja
Etter en drøy time i fly fra Hanoi så ankommer vi Kambodsja og Siem Reap. Flyplassen var ikke så stor men den var veldig mye penere enn andre flyplasser vi har sett. En sveip innom sikkerhetkontrollen og noen få dollar til visa så var vi på vei til Hotellet, The Kool Hotel :-).
The Kool Hotell var faktisk ganske cool ;-), vi fikk …

We headed back to Angkor today (not at sunrise, thank God) and actually went inside to look around the main site, as opposed to just jostling beside others to catch a glimpse of the sunrise.

Angkor Watt is a 1km square temple site which is set on 3 levels surmounted by a central tower. It was having some renovation done (as it seems to …

dag 39: Vandaag reizen we met een bus door naar Siem Reap, waar de wereldberoemde ruines van Angkor liggen. De bus die we bij ons hotel geboekt hebben vertrekt gelukkig pas om 12 uur 's middags waardoor we lekker kunnen uitslapen en dat was ook wel nodig met de hoeveelheid alcohol die we gisteren genuttigd hebben. Er was ons beloofd dat we een …

... Jones never had to put up with this. Rick enjoyed Srah Srang, a pretty baray (pool) opposite the temple of Banteay Kdei. Kdei made a refreshing change after the madness of Ta Prohm, and we had a great time viewing the lively apsara carvings. ...

... . I couldn't believe he actually stopped to think about it! He eventually chose option two. Smart man. He dutifully stopped at Banteay Kdei which is a little more dilapidated than the last two but it has some nice carvings and there aren't too many ...

... stone was easily one of my favorite travel experiences anywhere in the world.   After Ta Phrom we made a quick stop at Banteay Kdei, then called it a day.  We were determined to be at Angkor at sunset everyday in the hopes catching the ...

... managed to get the following temples in during the 7 hours we were there : Angkor Wat Angkor Thom Preah Khan Ta Keo Ta Prohm Banteay Kdei But the experience at Angkor Wat was the best. We decided, at the final temple, to take a look at the ...

... for the rest of the ride. A minor insult, only $5, but the bus company owner's rudeness was a sour introduction to Cambodia. The roads to Siem Reap, as in much of Cambodia, are astoundingly bad. Many are laterite and dirt, which devolves into a rut-field ...

... by 2 in the afternoon and had seen Angkor Wat, Phnom Bakheng, the entire Angor Thom complex, Ta Keo, Ta Prohm, and Banteay Kdei.  I was dead at the end after having taken a half hour nap at the top of one of the temples. These ...

... half-covered by jungle, giant trees intertwined with the rock, maze-like corridors, and mysterious stone carvings. Next up was Banteay Kdei, which was like a smaller Ta Phrom, and the muddy-looking swimming pool of Srah Srang. After we bought some ...

... site of Angkor Thom and the Bayon. From there we did Ta Keo, Ta Prom (aka The Tomb Raider Temple..where the film was made) and Banteay Kdei. That was enough for one day. On day two we had arranged for our tuk-tuk driver to collect us from the hotel at ...

... only 10 Bart (GBP 0.15) each, so we squeeze on board, hoping that we can change our flight time to Siem Reap, Cambodia, to something earlier than 3pm. At Bangkok Airways ticketing office we collect our (expensive) USD$120 tickets and find that there ...

... of the smaller temples, around one of the ancient, now dry reservoirs. My first stop was the small complex of Prasat Kravan, followed by Banteay Kdei, Eastern Mebon, and then Ta Som. By the time I got off the moto at Ta Som, at around 11:30am, I was ...