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Siem Reap, Cambodia
We arrived by plane from Ho Chi Minh city to Siem Reap (pronounced See-hum Ree-hup) and since we set foot in Cambodia, its been nothing but pleasant. (Except the heat maybe). We were very surprised by the fast and efficient service at the airport when ...
Temples Day 2 : Be Prepared !
... in this HUGE building, with nooks and crannies and halls and passages. Really awe-inspiring. But the negative is that everyone in Cambodia knows this, so it looks like a stadium on cup-final day. Really jam packed, hawkers, tourists, camera-junkies, ...
Angkor Wat och resan till Thailand
Mycket har hänt de sista dagarna! Vi har besök Angkor Wat, åkt en satans massa minibuss, bytt land och grälat med en taxichaufför. Vi hade en trevlig resa till Siem Reap, man fick se väldigt många små byar på ...
Temple Hopping day 1
Angkor means the "Holy City" in Khmer, the Cambodian official language. Angkor is the region of Cambodia which flourished from the 9th to the 15th centuries. The temples in the Angkor area are more than a thousand years old ...some of them only piles of ...
Siem Reap
The main reason people go to Siem Reap is obviously how close it is to all the Temples of Angkor. The town itself is a nice little place and we did do a couple of other things while we were there, like a pottery lesson and visiting an artisan ...
Bakong
Built a few years before Preah Ko, this temple is also dedicated to Shiva. The temple mountain in its centre represents Mount Meru. Not the one in Tanzania, but the mythical one that represents the centre of all universes in Hindu ...
Travel daze
Nothing very interesting to report from the last couple days! Our last morning in Mui Ne consisted of last minute sun tanning before we caught a bus to Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon in the afternoon. That journey = 6 hrs. We found our hostel (located in a ...
Day 19, Angkor Wat
... dedicated to Vishnu then Buddhist. Built around the same time as Westminster Abbey and Chartres. Lonely Planet informs us that Cambodia like Vietnam has a corrupt government. To privatise Angkor was a terrible idea, the locals who live their are not ...
Day 20, bye Siem Reap. Hello Bangkok!
A beautiful day chilling by the pool. We took a cab to the Airport, 5pm Bangkok Baby! Two trains later with a massive backpack we decided to jump in a taxi... Big mistake! At rush hour we moved less then a block in 25 minutes... Ridiculous, way worse ...
Day 23, Goodbbye Bangkok, hello Khaolak
7-30 am start, already very warm. I hit the gym hard this morning, great start to the day. The swimming pool is on the 33rd floor, what a view! And the pool is gorgeous, and it has a big kids pool, whirlpool and jacuzzi's in the changing rooms. After 40 ...
Leaving Cambodia today
We are on our way to Dubai! I'm a little sad to be leaving Cambodia- it was a crazy, amazing place. On the way to the airport this morning we passed a guy on a motorcycle with a big rack of dead chickens hanging from their feet! The Golden Banana Boutique ...
Toto- we're not in Kansas anymore
Ooohhh my goodness...Cambodia is crazy and wonderful. We got picked up at the airport by a tuk tuk which is basically a small motorcycle attached to a trailer. Had about a 20 minute ride into town with crazy traffic of all sizes going everywhere. At one ...
Dec 7 - Angkor Wat
Dec 7- Siem Reap Our night at Memoir was decent. For some reason our booking gave us the family room which had two twins and a gigantic oversized king, two bathrooms. We weren't about to complain but the first thing I did was to look out the window. ...
Angkor Wat
Na een zeer korte busrit aangekomen in Siem Riep... En wel om half 6 s'ochtends op een verlaten parkeerplek. Dit zijn van die momenten die je zo niet gaat missen als je weer thuis bent.. Het stinkt er naar vis en je hebt geen idee waar je bent en waar je ...
Day 18
7-30 am start, already very warm. We began at Pre Rup temple. Built as a state temple of Khmer King Rajendravarman, dedicated in 961/962. The temple's name is fairly modern, meaning "turn the body". This reflects the modern belief that funerals were ...
Another day of amazing experiences
So, we managed to drag ourselves out of bed at 4:30am this morning so we could be at Angkor Wat for sunrise. Hmmm...what can I say? My recommendation to other travelers would be to stay in bed! With our new and improved guide Sapo, we joined the throngs ...
Day 12 Thursday Cairns Australia
Lovely hotel the Pullman Cairns International ! It is so hot and humid here ! Up for very early run at 0600 as the sun was coming up. Not sure about Richard , so on my own. They have a really great well presented and well laid out esplanade. Loads of ...
Living on the Water or Up on Stilts
... of each year the lake drains and the river reverses its flow, leaving very fertile land for growing rice. One million of Cambodia's 14 million people's live on the lake in floating villages, changing locations several times per year as the water level ...
Up and Down, In and Out through Angkor
Angkor was the last capital of the Khmer empire -- a huge fortified city containing the ruins of a king's palace and many Hindu and Buddist temples. We toured the South and North gates of Angkor Thom, Bayon temple, Baphuon, Terrace of Elephants, Terrace ...
Day 14 Siem Reap Cambodia
Up early for a tut tut ride to Angkor Wat . We had a breakfast box of rolls eggs and lychees interesting! Say the sun rise amazing lots of people there very new age . Visited three temples took loads of pics. Back at hotel at 1pm for lunch then s nap , ...
Say (Angkor) wat?
Not prepared to go through another overcrowded mini-bus ride we had booked on a Giant Ibis bus to take us to Siem Reap. This bus company started at the beginning of the year offering a "luxury" experience complete with Western size leg room, leather ...
Siem Reap
Georgia had prebooked a hotel for them and managed to get us both a room in the posher sister hotel which had a pool! They also arranged our bus transfer! Siem Reap is the town closest to Angkor Wat. We ventured out to pub street for dinner and Georgia ...
The adventure begins
... an effect. We were accompanied by both locals and other travelers heading to Aranyaprathet, the border city before we cross into Cambodia. When we arrived, there were already a crowd of tuk tuks waiting for us. Without hesitation we hop on with ...
Soooo many temples
We hired a guide and started off fairly early to see some temples- our guide Chea told us that it was some sort of Buddhist holy day and we would not be able to climb around on Angkor Wat so we decided to save that for tomorrow and see some of the other ...
Waterfalls and Boat People
What a wonderful day we had on Boxing Day. We travelled into rural Siem Reap.the farmers have no electricity and all rely on battery power from car batteries, but ironically running along the road was an over head cable for a mobile phone network. You ...
Getting to Cambodia
... and says, "see you on the other side". We make our way out of Thailand. We pay for our visa and are accepted into Cambodia at the entry office and then we head to the next checkpoint. We are told to pay or stay........our guide finally comes and finds us ...
Dec 8 - Siem Reap day 2
Drama with our guide!! We made some last minute changes with our plans last night. We decided to catch an afternoon flight to Ho Chi Minh so we went to our hotel front desk to cancel our appointment with the guide for the next day. We thought it was ...
Day 13 Friday Cairns to Siem Reap Cambodia
... back on stand, we did some jobs and had time to shop. Bought some trinkets. Settled into the flight only 6 hours to Cambodia. Listened to Jack Daulton , who gave a good talk all about Angkor Wat. The biggest stone religious building in the world. Quiet ...
Cambodia update
... Cambodian food. We spent a very long time at the S21 museum where we discovered a great deal about the recent history of Cambodia and the tragedies that took place under the Khmer Rouge. We felt very overwhelmed and quite emotional after this visit! We ...
Cambodia Day Two!
... temples and many buda statues inside for worship although a civil war between buda and Hindu resulted in many decapitated figures. Cambodia is really quite interesting because they are a French territory ( or something like that) and they all learn ...
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