Siem Reap
Travel Blogs from Siem Reap, Cambodia
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
... , 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
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 ...
Day 71: One Dollah, You Buy?
... = 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 ...
Day 70, Pt.2: The Pizza Company
... 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 ...
Day 70, Pt.1: Camera Vs. Monsoon @ Angkor Thom
... ; 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 & ...
The Best Laid Plans...
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 ...
Deep fried spiders
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 ...
Templed out
... 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 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!
... officer who is standing right below the sign that says $20 and just begging for a problem! "5 hour", 153 kilometer drive to Siem Reap: 12 hours and the bumpiest ride of my life! Flat tire after about 50 kilometers into Cambodia: ...
Shake, Rattle and Roll
... 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 ...
Angkor Wat??? Bar is a great place!
... 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
... 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 ...
Cambodia - Overview
As with Vietnam, the current generation of Cambodia is haunted by the country's recent history. Our day in Phnom Penh, facing up to the horrors of the Pol Pot regime, was frighteningly difficult to comprehend. The nation has had to move forward and it had ...
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
... us to the river side where we see the houses build on stilts hanging partly over the water and the contrasting gates to the royal palace. Siem Reap is not a pretty town by all means, dusty dirty and poor. But it feels safe and friendly and it is the base ...
Tomb Raiding in Siem Reap
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. ...
Angkor Wat
... 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 ...
Ankor wat wat wat?
... 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 ...
Siem Reap
... 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
... 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 ...
Kampuchea Hosue
... , 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 ...
Next up.. Cambodia
... 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 Cambodia. The landscape is noticeably different here, and it actually looks a bit like Holland from the ...
The extension to The Villa Siem Reap
... ... 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 ...
Holiday in Cambodia
... is 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. ...
Angkor - not the ship kind. Temple Tour Day 3
... 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 ...
Amazing Angkor
... we found out that the taxi we had booked in Bangkok for this part of the journey would not drop us anywhere except the outskirts of Siem Reap unless we booked a guesthouse ahead of time. Big scam of course but what can you do! The drive from the border to ...
Angkor - not the ship kind. Temple Tour Day 2
... 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!
... 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 ...
