Cambodia
Travel Blogs from Cambodia, Cambodia
Angkor Wat....$1 lady, you buy? $1 sir, you buy?
Dec 14,15 & 16th were our designated Angkor Wat days. Dec 14th- We got up at 9am to set out on our first day of exploring this massive complex. We had hired a tuk tuk from our hostel for the three days as this comlpex is stretched out for miles and ...
Being Lara Croft
Our second day of temple exploration was undampened by the heavy rainfall which started during breakfast. Our driver, Mr Bon, took us to Ta Prohm as the first stop. Tiar had advised us to get up and go before breakfast, and it soon became clear why. The ...
Siem Reap - Tomb Raider 2
... $1 noodles at the roadside cafes, 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 ...
Phnom Penh
Version traduite plus bas Jan 18, Cambodia, Phnom Penh Though in Bangkok we had managed to buy e visas for Cambodia, we had to go to Phnom Penh to buy visas for Vietnam.... big city, noisy with all the vehicles honking all the time and quite dirty! Lots ...
Fish Massage
Do not go to Siem Reap and not visit the Fish Massage pool at the night market. Guarenteed smiles on faces or your money back. I think they're called kissing gouranis, others say they're baby Piranhas (they might well be both). It tickles like ...
Phnom Penh
... singing and the peacefullness of it now seems very deserved and approapriate. Before he leaves us our guide tells us that Cambodia is a matriachal society that places high value on the position of women. Subsequently it is the man who has to pay a ...
Day 71: One Dollah, You Buy?
... to the merchant, Cambodians hate Thais & Chinese and don't get along well with Vietnamese. Laos, Cambodia's equally impoverished, sparsely populated northern friend has similar feelings and has bonded with Cambodia over their mutual trouble with ...
Siem Reap, Cambodia
Verson traduite plus bas January 14, Siem Reap, Cambodia "I never thought I would miss my purple bucket (to wash clothes), nor my tent!" mentions Peggy, unhappy to be sitting on dirty carpet. That is the problem now with our new way of travelling: being ...
Day 70, Pt.2: The Pizza Company
... to live in Hamburg?" - "Eh, it iz Hamburg. Vat is there to say..." And so ended our first full day in Cambodia. By this point, having biked around a good chunk of the surprisingly green town center, and having been blown away by the temples, I ...
Day 70, Pt.1: Camera Vs. Monsoon @ Angkor Thom
... 's indoor mall, tiny by our standards but a mall nonetheless and a symbol of the main wealth difference between Nepal & Cambodia. Unlike Nepal, there are visible signs of foreign investment here and big money floating around (whereas it was pretty ...
Phnom Penh - better than everyone says!
... banned victims from crying when they were whipped. Lastly we visited the Royal Palace with the Silver Pagoda. It's hard to understand how Cambodia can be home to such decadence, when many live in relative poverty, but that's the way it is, the palace ...
End of Nam ...& a good start to an amazing country
... some banter with the locals... the kids are fun to mess around with, its just a bloody lovely and amazing place..... i recommend Cambodia to everyone... and i formed that opinion after taking 10 steps from he bus.... i still have the same opinion 1 week ...
The Best Laid Plans...
... States. Land mines will more than likely claim many more tens of thousands of lives here before they are found and deactivated. Cambodia teams with land mine victims and their presence is felt everywhere. They are the very young and the very old and they ...
Deep fried spiders
... roads were rather dusty and bumpy, but in reasonable repair, threading through the flat rural landscapes where most of Cambodia's population make a subsistance living. We drove past emaciated cattle, languid water buffalo, and wooden houses on tall stilts ...
Templed out
Boats are cool. Therefore fast boats must be uber-cool. This was our reasoning as we paid triple the bus fare to catch the fast boat to Siem Reap, home of the most beautiful and complex temple region in the world. The boat was uber-cool, and being able ...
Day in the life of a Cambodia
... classroom (and the doorway and windows) and distributed the gifts. We then toured a pagoda and learned of Buddhism in Cambodia. From here we harvested some rice which lead to the discovery that i was a cycle wielding natural. Considering this career ...
Into Cambodia... easier said than done!
... drive to Siem Reap: 12 hours and the bumpiest ride of my life! Flat tire after about 50 kilometers into Cambodia: Lateˇ my bet was on going down after just 25 kilometersˇ Inability of 25 people to change the flat tire ...
Phluk and Temple
... in the first place they should never have served this. For a place of this stature and allure this was unacceptable, even in a country like Cambodia. We did not let it ruin our day and the second try of the Chef was better. But when we were almost done ...
Back to Hong Kong
Today we have to leave this wonderful country as Chinese new year demands our presence back in Hong Kong, or actually in Taiwan, as the whole family will go there to celebrate the new lunar year. But not before we take a last spin around the town of Siem ...
Shake, Rattle and Roll
... be an understatement. We were finally able to walk away, and walked in a stunned sort of silence across the border, into Cambodia. around 3:45 we boarded the minibus with about 20 other people. it certainly wasn't as crowded as it could've been, and ...
Exploring Phnom Penh
Sua s'dai from Phnom Penh, Cambodia's vibrant capital. We hope to put some detail down to accompany the photos very soon. All the best ...
City Views
We made it to our next country Cambodia! Grabbed a taxi from the airport, which charged based on how many stops they make (surprising pricing method). Found a hotel right on the river and checked in, then went and found some dinner. We found the city to ...
Reading Time
... power of the French leading to the Vietnamese tightening their control over the Mekong Delta and hence restricting river access to Cambodia) and its beaches have made it popular as a tourist destination. According to the Royal Government of Cambodia, some ...
Angkor Wat??? Bar is a great place!
... ; It's very nice but the main section (the old market) is so commercial that it appears as though you're in Europe and not in Cambodia with no proper roads in any direction. I walk around the market and snag a pair of shorts for $10 after the lady ...
Goodbye Cambodia ;(
... rest to the following site http://www.flickr.com/photos/discozo/sets/ ... if you want to take a gander you can :) (there are around 400 pics of Cambodia) Love to all Tom x x x p.s A very merry christmas to all.... enjoy your xmas grub ...
Next up.. Cambodia
... . Thank god everything went according to plan this morning and we arrived on time at the tiny airport of Luang Prabang, next stop Cambodia. A boring wait and a short flight later we landed at the airport of Siem Reap, in the middle of the country of ...
Snooky Ville to Siem Reap - home of Angkor Wat
6:30 am start, tuc tuc to bus station, bus to Phnom Penh change to bus to Siem Reap. 11 hours in total and a bus driver with a death wish! All in all a good day really. It was during the last leg of the bus journey that we encountered some interesting ...
Easy Rider, Part II
... as negative suspension?) that we were in dire need of some wind in our face and some bugs in our teeth. Truly. Despite Cambodia's legendarily awful potholed dirt roads, this streth of highway was quite nicely paved all the way and took us through some ...
Border crossing Trat - Koh kong
... inflated ($15 for a 4 hour ride on a busboat not dissimilar to a garbage scow.) Some initial impressions of Cambodia-- 1. There does not seem to be any formal public transportation, only private motorcycles/boats/Toyota Camrys, all too willing to ...

