Preah Khan Siem Reap

Unlike most of you on Boxing Day who were sat in front of the tele, eating left over turkey and playing with your presents - as it should be. We were sat on a bus worrying that Brad was going to be deported from Cambodia.

On Boxing Day we started our journey to Cambodia - our final destination. On the bus Brad was asked if he had another …

Thanks again to some good advice, (thanks again to Shannon and Andrew) we got a nice early start to our second day and were on our way to the temples by 8am.

We drove through Angor Thom and started our day on the "Grand Tour" up at Preah Khan. Hit many other temples too, but will fill in details as time permits.

Important lesson …

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, …

Awoke feeling somewhat more human - like I had woken up from a bad dream - had breakfast, took more decongestants and headed out on the so-called "Big Tour" temple circuit. It is called that because there is quite a bit more distance to cover than the "Small Tour" I did on the first day. Realistically this could be done by bicycle, but not when you …

We left Phnom Penh at 13.00 on a 'limousine bus', although there was nothing limousine about it, none of our chairs reclined (but everyone else's seemed to) and there wasn't much leg room. To top it off completely, there was some crazy Cambodian music videos being played through a tv, they looked more like karaoke videos! We arrived eventually at …

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 …

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 …

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

Entry containing 36 photos titled: Elephant feeding, Elephant ride, Crumbling temple, Elephant terrace, Trees and temples, Angkor Artisans

... , and in the centre was a sculpture of a horse, rearing up as it rescued drowning sailors from a watery grave. Preah Khan was a large and spectacular temple- another which encouraged exploration. We watched locals casting nets into the moat outside, ...

Here are some photos from our time in Siem Reap and a few of the Angkorian complexes and temples - Angkor Thom and the Bayon, Preah Khan, Ta Prohm (the Tomb Raider temple) and of course the mother of all temples, Angkor Wat. ...

... gallery features a series 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: ...

... . Back to the main group of temples about 16km away we go to 'Eastern Mebon' (a temple in the middle of a completely dry lake) 'Preah Khan' which is similar to 'Ta Prom' with all the tree roots over the buildings and walls and is pretty huge and very ...

... day, but again, they each had something stunning and unique that never made the day boring. There were the strangely Greece columns of Preah Khan and the five pools of Preah Neak Pean that must be really something when filled up. At Ta Som Vanndy and I ...

... sandstone throughout, in particular on the framed archways and standing figures around every corner. Later in the afternoon, we stopped at Preah Khan. This temple is where Matt Lauer must've been standing when Jill saw him on the Today's Show "Where in ...

... PICS).     We managed to squeeze in another monument before heading back to town to get out of the searing midday heat; Preah Khan, which is also known as "The Labyrinth" and was created by King Jayavarman, a busy bloke who built most of the ...

... in his eyes - dumbass! We 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, ...

... kids were tongue tied, she cried out - Kathmandu!! They're very quick to learn! We then went onto 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. ...

... 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 ...