Banteay Srei Siem Reap

Con panne y cambio de bus, llegamos después de 6 horas de viaje a Siem Riep, ciudad turística del estilo de San Pedro, guardando las proporciones. Nos estaban esperando en el terminal (joya!!) y llegamos a nuestra habitación, la que tenía ventilador de techo solamente. El calor…te lo encargo, unos 34 grados y la humedad peor, de 90%...o sea, …

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 …

Entry containing 254 photos titled: Angkor Temples, Monks at Angkor Temples, My boss however is little trying... she's from Br, Angkor Wat

Our last full day in Siem Reap. Time to finish up the trekking and maybe even take a swim in the lovely pool at the hotel. We started off with breakfast from the hotel. Different from the day before, but still catered to Western taste. Once we finished, we headed downstairs to meet up with Eant and Mr. Mao. On our way out, the hotel staff gave us …

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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Breakfast at our guest house was surprisingly good. We were pretty buggered from the border crossing adventure and we really didn't want to deal with tuk tuk drivers. So we organised our tours with our guest house. By the time we organised the tours it was 11am so we decided to do things differently. We were going to visit the …

Today dawned bright and early and I was reinvigorated to start my last day of templing. Today was a circuitous day that went out to see Banteay Srei about 21 km northeast of the city and then looped back to tackle the norther arc of the Grand Circuit, heading back to Angkor Wat area and the main road back to town.

On the way out to Banteay …

This was the third and last day for Angkor ancient city. After this day, the Angkor Pass would be invalid. I had planned to visit Kbal Spean and Banteay Srei this day but both sites were quite some distance away from the main Angkor sites. It would be wise to hire a cab for this long journey but our tuk tuk driver, for the last 2 days, offered to …

I arrived yesterday afternoon and met Robert, a Peace Corp Volunteer who teaches 10th grade in Battenbang. Robert had recently sent an inquiry to OLPC asking how one start's a new XO laptop project. Since I was going to be in the neighborhood anyway, we arranged to meet. From Robert I learned that in Cambodia there are primary schools in most …

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 …

... gets over crowded. I wished I'd come 6 years ago. It's a lovely place though, made of pink sandstone and is called Banteay Srei or 'citadel of the women'. David's favourite. It's walls are covered with carved reliefs. Some think carved by women as ...

... would tolerate the early morning abuse. As we continued onwards towards the hill of Kulen we stopped at the red temple of Banteay Srei. This temple is known for exquisitely fine decorations in the panels above the doors. And indeed it was amazing the ...

... the temple looking at the famous reliefs including the Churning of the Milk scene. Meet Rattana after about 3 hours. Had decided to go to Banteay Srei but Rattana wants $20 to do the 30ks out to it. We decide against it and go to town for coffee and bit ...

... we might be. After a picnic (marmite baguette and more bananas) we headed back down and wet onto another temple 'Banteay Srei' which was much more impressive. This temple is made from a pinky coloured stone and the carvings are incredible and very ...

... lot in to that first day. Though it all went by in a blur, each place we visited was extraordinary in its own way. At Banteay Srei, I noticed this strange, lilting music coming from a a little wooded area near the outer wall. When Steve and I went to ...

... , but the sun provides the best light (and the least heat) in the early morning. We then rode an hour out to Banteay Srei, one of our favorite temples. The 10th-century temple is intricately decorated. Carvings cover the pink sandstone throughout, in ...

... itinery) that we would be able to cover everything else we wanted to today. We started by getting the driver to take us to Banteay Srei about 35km away. It was indeed a beautiful temple and we are so glad we visited it as some of the older ruins from ...

... and make his own living. In the late morning, after exploring Angkor Wat, we drove half an hour or so to Banteay Srei, a small but incredibly beautiful little temple located some way away from the main complex. Built of pinkish stone and boasting ...

... 77sq miles in size full of temples built by the Khymers over the space of about 600 years. Our first temple was Banteay Srei which was about 16km out of Siem Reap, but it was a nice ride of the back of a bike. This temple was built in 967 and there ...

... of Angkor Thom, as it would take forever to do it on foot.  The tuk-tuk ride out to Beng Melea and Banteay Srei was interesting, as we got to see more of the countryside.  There were lots of people cooking outside their banana-leaf ...