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Travel Blogs from Angkor, Siem Reap, Cambodia
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First Tour of Angkor and Sunrise
This is a top pick! I'll stick to travel narrative and let Lindsey, my brilliant archaeologist, tell you all about Angkor. Copyright Lindsey Stoker 2007. "Angkor Wat is the largest archaeological religious site in the world. Its temple ruins are the remnants ...
Girls finish the Angkor temple tour with a sneeze!
This is a top pick! ... night job as a DJ. When we got there, one of the group was busy snapping photos of the thinnest old man I've seen in Cambodia. He was dressed only in a sarong around his bony hips and a checked Khmer scarf (a kramah) and some kind of traditional stringed ...
Of beggars, temples and tourists
This is a top pick! ... 's only one reason to visit Siem Reap, but it's a big one. In fact, it's the biggest-- Siem Reap is the gateway to the Temples of Angkor, the largest and arguably the most well preserved religious structures in the world. Ticket prices are steep at ...
Welcome to Scambodia
This is a top pick! Woman on bus with Shawn Border (fine for Anton, visa space for Shawn) met Alex $5 surcharge for taxi 5 star ...
The Ancient City
This is a top pick! Siem Reap - Angkor Wat If you want to travel in time or pretend that you are Lara Croft, this is the place for you. Ty WAS Lara Croft. I'm not sure if it is his long dark hair or his tattoos but the resemblance is uncanny. ...
Tomb Raiding
This is a top pick! Apologies, your just about to get a barraged of blogs from the last week or so...unfortunately the speed of Internet in Cambodia isn't that hot so I am using the opportunity of using top Hong Kong inefficiency to catch up on my blogs!!!! Tomb ...
Incredible Temples
This is a top pick! ... 70 Riel to the Baht, the standard is 100. This was the only time on the trip Scott and I got swindled and we were seething. In Siem Reap we split a tour guide with an Irish couple, paying $5 each for the day. Scott and I also got a tuk-tuk for $8 for ...
Girls see more temples @Angkor
This is a top pick! ... the tree temples. One in particular was used in a Lara Croft film and is the current cover of the Lonely Planet Cambodia guide. It's a fabulously mysterious and atmospheric place, with trees melting all over the walls, inner courtyards are filled with the ...
Washed out of Angkor !!!
This is a top pick! ... way that we become bored with visiting, so we carefully chose which temples we wanted to visit and set off the short distance from Siem Reap. Soon we arrived at the ticket office and purchased our one day passes, you can get 3 and 7 day options too! ...
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This is a top pick! ... decided to hire a minibus and guide to visit the only site of tourist interest in Cambodia, the ruined city of Angkor, about 10mins away from Siem Reap. It worked out as cheap as going on motobikes and was the easy option after a hard previous day. ...
Angkor Wat
... however when I discovered that the French actually own a 50 year lease on the site and all the revenue therefore goes out of Cambodia. This actually made me feel quite ill, especially seeing as a three day pass was extortionate and I hoped some of the ...
What an experience!
... was expecting to see one temple - Angkor Wat - in Cambodia. Was I wrong! There are a few dozen temples just around the Siem Reap area. I thought I had "moto" written all over my face, since so many people yelled to me that name. Motorcycles are the ...
What's up Doc
Alison: Angkor Wat is the main attraction in Cambodia and it is basically a complex of very old temples found just outside Siam Reap. The largest and best preserved temple is the one that is actually the Angkor Wat and it is this temple which features on ...
Temples, Temples, Temples.....
We arrived in Siam Reap, Cambodia around 7pm last night via PMT Airways and checked in to a lovely little contemporary bungalow with swimming pool and chilled. After an early breakfast, we headed for the temples of Angkor, capital of Cambodia's ancient ...
The Many Temples of Angkor
... - Central temple of Angkor Wat and bas-reliefs - Bayon - Ta Prohm rubble and trees - Banteay Samre Heat Kills the Appetite Siem Reap is the hottest place we've been so far. We think the daytime temperature must be about 40 degrees. Traipsing around ...
Angkor Wat - How did they bloody loose this place?
... Piano. I was then off to the capital Phnom Penh to see the killing fields, S21 and saw my books. Whilst I was in Siem Reap I had read the Killing Fields and Stay Alive my son, both books were written about the atrocities the Khmer Rouge committed ...
Raiders of the lost Wat
... afternoon). On the other temples, the overall impression was of a scale of endeavour which neither of us had previously encountered. Angkor Wat itself is certainly the star of the show and is truly epic (see photo above). I think ...
Cambodia
... HELL!! Once on Cambodian soil, we began to remember all the stories of this dreaded roadtrip from Poipet (Cambodian border town) to Siem Reap, and wondered if they were true. They were. The road was as if bouncing bombs had been dropped every 20 yards ...
cambodia
... i will be asking for sponsors if i get the time we are not sure when where or how yet but apparently there is one on cambodia. i have started to remember who i am again i am this fun loving hippy wanabee who wants to get drunk n try every experience that ...
Sunrise at the temples
... films so it was packed! It looks really good, as it has hundreds of trees growing through the stones. Headed back to Siem Reap, had some food and watched cambodian music videos, (google some, well with the watch) Before heading out with people staying ...
Phnom Penh to Siem Reap
... to Siem Reap, taking 6 hours. I was only westerner on bus so got surrounded by moto and tuktuk drivers when I disembarked at Siem Reap bus station. Quickly chose on tuktuk driver who was holding up the card of one of the hostels I was thinking of heading ...
Cambodia I Am Here!
Just landed from New Delhi. Tomorrow I will be visiting Angkor Wat. I am currently about 7 km from Angkor Wat. I'm going to bed. I have a big day tomorrow. ...
cambodia
... i will be asking for sponsors if i get the time we are not sure when where or how yet but apparently there is one on cambodia. i have started to remember who i am again i am this fun loving hippy wanabee who wants to get drunk n try every experience that ...
Angkor
... a guide and driver for these three days. (Thanks to our friend, John Foster, of Carbondale for the reference for a travel agent in Siem Reap.) Our time there was very hot and we were grateful for an air conditioned van and our expert guide, Boran. A ...
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