Neak Pean Siem Reap

Was also going to call this one "Don't Fear the Siem Reaper"

Flew from Saigon to Siem Reap. After a fairly easy breeze through customs and another full page in my passport taken up with a visa (I only have 4 pages left now) a nice boy from our guesthouse picked us up from the airport and shuttled us in his tuk tuk (or Remorque-moto as …

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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 …

The word of the day, well, the last two days is 'OWWW'. Never, ever, think that just because you rode a bike when you were a kid that you are somehow granted invincibility and great biking immortality. It's not true. If you've, like me, only been on a bicycle about 3 times since you were 12 years old, I urge you to not then bicycle upwards of 100 …

2nd day - Angkor Wat, Bayon, Baphuon Temple, Terrace of the Elephants, Ta Prohm
3rd day - Eastern Mebon, Banteay Srei, Neak Pean, Preah Khan
4th day - Bakong, Lolei, Preah Ko

**need to find others on day 3

Part 3 of 3

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 …

We thought we would use our last day at Angkor to see the finer parts of Angkor Wat and also to visit some of the smaller outlying temples. Apart from anything, when we visited Angkor Wat 2 days ago I didn't have anything to cover my shoulders with and we wanted to climb the highest part in the middle (for some reason in this part only you need to …

Sometimes destinations find you. This was certainly the case when it came to Cambodia.  I was sitting in front of the computer one rainy day asking myself where I wanted to travel for my annual Thanksgiving trip. My mind was drawing a blank so I pulled up Google and simply asked "Best places for travel in November". Up popped pictures from …

Hallo zusammen, wir grüßen heute aus der Provinzhauptstadt Battambang in Kambodscha!

Es ist sicher nicht ein Land, das man ganz oben auf der Liste der Top-Wunschziele der meisten Touristen findet, doch die geografische Lage zwischen Thailand und Vietnam treibt dann doch eine nicht unwesentliche Zahl Backpacker ins Land, so auch uns. …

... and featured face towers in the style of the Bayon, and an enormous fig tree growing out of the roof of the eastern gate. Neak Pean was a temple island situated in the centre of a baray which has now dried up. Huge nagas coiled around the outside of the ...

... , I can't believe that anyone can afford not to. Having said all that, if there's one place in Cambodia that deserves a good, lengthy visit, it's Siem Reap. Here's why ..... It's 4.45am, i'm out of bed and angry. These temples had better be bloody ...

... of bas-reliefs depicting historical events and scenes from the everyday life of the Angkorian Khmer. ---- Preah Khan ---- Ta Som ---- Neak Pean ---- Banteay Smre ---- Roluos Group ---- Ta Prohm and many more. Note: We visited about 25 to 30 ...

... to him who had been my faithful friend and guide, it felt as if I were saying goodbye to an entire existence. And I was, my Siem Reap existance. It was special, truly special, and as I wearily boarded the bus to Phnom Penh to meet up with Steve and ...

... another group of ruins. Preah Khan, Neak Pean and Ta Som. Preah Khan has trees holding it together and is lovely, then Neak Pean totally different. It's a stupa in the middle of what used to be a large man-made pond with four smaller pools ...

... of Dancing Apsaras. I was hot and exhausted by that time, though, so an hour of wandering around the twisting corridors was plenty. Neak Pean was disappointing, because it's a series of pools that are empty during the dry season (now). At 2:00 we rode ...

... Wat just before 6am....along with the other millions of tourists. From there we did the grand tour circuit  visiting Preah Khan, Neak Pean, Ta Som, East Mebon and Pre Rup...however, by the time we reached the last temple we had both had enough. We ...

... 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 ...

... A dodgy Malai Kofta rendered me a sick and sorry mess yesterday, and my holiday plans are now screwed. However, I'm not too bothered. Siem Reap is an interesting place. Cambodian at heart, but on the surface, not really Cambodian at all. The worlds ...

... petrol, and off we went to get our pass to let us into see the temples Day 1 This time was different. Even though I didn't recognise Siem Reap, as soon as we took the road out to the ticket box, it all came flooding back to me. Today, I was going ...