Siem Reap, Cambodia Travel Blogs

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 ...

A travel blog entry by fyrelizard
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... , 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 ...

A travel blog entry by stephen.j.booth
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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 ...

A travel blog entry by stephen.j.booth
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by mills-mcshea
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... = 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 ...

A travel blog entry by sirrocko711
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by zee
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... 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." ...

A travel blog entry by sirrocko711
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... & 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 & ...

A travel blog entry by sirrocko711
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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 ...

A travel blog entry by fyrelizard
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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 ...

A travel blog entry by christinasworld
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by rachel_jodie
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by madman96
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by charlietravels
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 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 ...

A travel blog entry by hancocjb
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by madman96
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by marshallmatters
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by cleff
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by lucinate
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by lucinate
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by lucinate
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... 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. ...

A travel blog entry by arlash
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by fyrelizard
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by laurenandkris
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by charlietravels
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... , 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 ...

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... 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. ...

A travel blog entry by petenic360
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by emanddave
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by charlietravels
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by andy_jillian
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by gonetilwhenever
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