Siem Reap, Cambodia Travel Blogs

Being Lara Croft
Jan 26, 2008 (26 photos)

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
Mar 19, 2009 (59 photos)

... , 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 ...

Fish Massage
Mar 20, 2009 (7 photos)

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 ...

Ankor wat wat wat?
Jan 12, 2006 (21 photos)

... a cold drink! Amoung the hussel and bussle there are also musical bands by victims of land mines, a very stark reminder of Cambodia's history that still treatens today. In all the guide books and from other travellers you hear never walk off the main paths ...

Day 71: One Dollah, You Buy?
Jul 31, 2008 (23 photos)

... = Zero Malaria Vaccine = 50% complete Green Tea Milkshakes = 3 Bug Bites = Less than expected Bug Repellent = Almost gone in Siem Reap, totally gone at the time of writing Bugs = Less mosquitoes than I thought there would be, Nepal probably boosted my ...

Templed out
Feb 23, 2005 (11 photos)

... 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 to ride on ...

Day 70, Pt.2: The Pizza Company
Jul 31, 2008 (6 photos)

... time gave them an eerie, spiritual look that they wouldn't have otherwise had. After getting a good fill we set off back to Siem Reap to return our bikes and go wherever the night would take us. ...a dining booth in the local branch of "The Pizza Company." ...

Day 70, Pt.1: Camera Vs. Monsoon @ Angkor Thom
Jul 30, 2008 (13 photos)

... & ATM, both of which were conveniently next door to one another. The ATM was difficult to find, being somewhere inside Siem Reap's indoor mall, tiny by our standards but a mall nonetheless and a symbol of the main wealth difference between Nepal & ...

Deep fried spiders
Jan 24, 2008 (13 photos)

We had a full morning in Phnom Penh before we needed to catch our bus to Siem Reap. We wandered down to where the muddy brown waters of the Tonle Sap met the blue flow of the mighty Mekong. Boats journeyed up and down the rivers, and families ...

The Best Laid Plans...
Jan 22, 2005 (6 photos)

Today seemed like a good day to secure my travel plans back to Bangkok and then explore more of Siem Reap before departing tomorrow morning. I went to two different travel agencies in town here and then debated my options. There's an air pass with Bangkok ...

Shake, Rattle and Roll
Mar 28, 2005

... on sunday we hopped on a boat for four hours. this was the beginning of a tiring, yet interesting, 36 hour journey to get to siem reap, cambodia. from the boat we took a tuk-tuk to our bus. we got on the bus around 7:30, headed for bangkok, and had a ...

Into Cambodia... easier said than done!
Mar 6, 2008 (8 photos)

... in the back of a freight truck: dustiest thing I've ever done and tough on the cheeks to say the least! Showing up in Siem Reap at 1:30am (18.5 hours later) and deciding to go to the bars before heading straight to see the ruins of Angkor Wat before ...

Day in the life of a Cambodia
Dec 8, 2008 (18 photos)

... 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 ...

Crossing another border
Dec 22, 2006

 Angkor is incredible. The size of the site, the temples themselves, and of course the history absolutly blows the mind.  We'll write soon for sure, and we'll post a million photos to really describe the place.   Merry Christmas everyone ...

Angkor Wat??? Bar is a great place!
Mar 8, 2008 (7 photos)

... that provides for a great evening of chilling and watching the sunset with Tara, a girl from Arizona that lives and works in Siem Reap, of all places.  We have a great time chilling and talking about the difference in the cultures and enjoy the ...

Snooky Ville to Siem Reap - home of Angkor Wat
Oct 5, 2007 (33 photos)

... relay, running relay and sidestep relay....all in all many calories burned. Monday, today we would explore the very thing that Siem Reap was famous for... its Wats (temples).  There are several temples with Angkor Wat being the biggest of them all ...

Angkor Wat
Mar 24, 2007 (15 photos)

... Saturday night we attended a free concert put on by a Dr. Beat Richner of Switzerland who is the chief MD of the Siem Reap children's hospitals. This brilliant man travels all over the world putting on cello conerts to raise money for this hospital. Since ...

Angkor - not the ship kind. Temple Tour Day 3
May 18, 2006 (50 photos)

... all looked at each other and nodded - I don't think so!! It was 9.45 and there was no way we'd be done and back in Siem Reap by 11.30. The guy was dreaming big time! We were off to the The Rolous Group which includes Preah Ko, Bakong and Lolei, and ...

Angkor - not the ship kind. Temple Tour Day 2
May 17, 2006 (125 photos)

... that they were on the same road and that we're not diverting from the original route. He had to pass them to get back into Siem Reap but he thought we were asking more of him and demanded more money. We gave him a couple of options. Leave us there and ...

Not Impressed, but excited!
May 13, 2006 (11 photos)

... in the markets and watched people buying up on fresh fishy dinner treats. Anyway, David decided to celebrate this return to Siem Reap (which apparently means 'Siam defeated') with a dinner of the local speciality of Amok fish. This is a dish prepared ...

Siem Reap
Dec 14, 2004 (20 photos)

... to tour the temples. These and other backpacker hints offered to you at no extra cost! The temples of Angkor are 5 miles outside of Siem Reap. After stopping to buy my photo ID pass, we started the tour. Angkor Wat is only one of the many temple sites. ...

Cities of temples
Jan 25, 2008 (21 photos)

... a magnificent temple. Ornately carved, though not as delicately as Angkor, the carvings were lively scenes of everyday life in Cambodia 800 years ago- hunting, fishing, celebrating. A man bent on one knee, proposing to a woman, Chinese merchants carosing ...

Holiday in Cambodia
Mar 25, 2005 (10 photos)

... now surrounded with a tarmac 'moat'. Since Cambodia opened their skies to international flights tour groups have been pouring into Siem Reap airport and being ferried from their luxury hotels in big, faceless white coaches into the heart of Angkor. From ...

The extension to The Villa Siem Reap
Nov 25, 2008 (5 photos)

... as well as a bar. This will most likely serve as the principal vantage point for my Uncle Gary, Pop and Dad to view Cambodia from when they come over with the rest of my mum's family for Christmas. The following are photos of the extension. Photos of the ...

Kampuchea Hosue
Dec 1, 2008 (23 photos)

... , a school and a general area to play. The community center is the latest project at Kampuchea House which is located 30mins from Siem Reap in a village called Dom Dek. Already present at KH are two houses, at least one of which was donated by Wesley ...

Week Twenty One - Phnom Penh to Siem Reap
Jan 21, 2004 (38 photos)

... are still in our respective positions Boat full and people steal positions when they become free. Arrive up narrow inlet to Siem Reap port. Pilot beaches boat several times. At embarkation there are loads of touts with signs waiting for their customers. ...

Angkor What?
Mar 11, 2006 (3 photos)

... in the films! Jay (who was also on our bus) literally screamed "no" and everything still continued. AT this point I thought I would hate Siem Reap and it did feel a lot like the scary side of India. Anyway, our tuk tuk driver, Sari, took us to the ...

People and their Places
Dec 10, 2008 (47 photos)

... near watatoya and took some photos different people and met a great khmer person who showed me around. When you get further away from Siem Reap the more the people stare as most wouldn't have seen a foreigner before. But on the most part they are all very ...

Angkor WHAT???
Dec 5, 2004 (44 photos)

... totally reached our limit with Thailand. Land of smiles??? Land of scams... Maybe, though, we should begin our story with Siem Reap and the spectacular ruins of the ancient city of Angkor: Siem Reap which was our base for visiting Angkor, though ...

Cambodia - Siem Reap (Angkor Wat)
Apr 21, 2007 (72 photos)

... wait.     That night, in homage to the Tombraider film, we ate at the Red Piano restaurant in the centre of Siem Reap. This restaurant was apparently a favourite of Angelina Jolie and the rest of the cast and crew of the movie - you can even ...