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- Phnom Penh
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- Riel (KHR)
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Siem Reap Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Siem Reap, Cambodia
Angkor Wat....$1 lady, you buy? $1 sir, you buy?
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Bigger Wow Than Angkor Wat??
This is a top pick! Visiting the Full Tummy Farms Orphanage near Siem Reap was a wonderful experience for us but I wanted to add a cautionary note for anyone thinking of doing something similar. Cambodia has lost a whole generation of parents through ...
Wonder Of The World
This is a top pick! ... that this is just a maturity issue and as many of these new travelers gain experience they will modify their behaviour). We started our Siem Reap temple trekking with the star of the show, Angkor Wat itself. By sheer fluke we got there just as the ...
Angkor What?
This is a top pick! ... picture of him and Lady E, which was nice (we later saw other nice people ask him for a snap and he refused). We then visited the Siem Reap landmine museum which was on the way back. It was a great place and seemed a good location for us to drop off our ...
Greyhound is Luxurious
This is a top pick! ... in the front row thanked me. I was surprised the nun didn't plan a novena for me she was so grateful. Arriving in the town of Siem Reap after dark was thrilling simply because it wasn't a bus. Then I hired a nice tuk-tuk driver to take me to my hotel ...
Into The Heart of Darkness
This is a top pick! ... Rouge, peace now dissipates over its provinces allowing travellers to embrace its changing landscapes. We head straight to Siam Reap, Cambodia's cultural and spiritual heartland and gateway to the temples of Angkor. Even with tourism back on the map, ...
Seeing 'em weep in Siem Reap
This is a top pick! ... ENGLAND WIN!. It was a late night of much merriment, and not the best thing to do before an early rise. I decided to get to Siem Reap by taking the express boat up the Tonle Sap lake. Five hours of sitting on the roof of the boat getting roasted like ...
First Tour of Angkor and Sunrise
This is a top pick! I'll stick to travel narrative and let Lindsey, my brilliant archaeologist, tell you all about Angkor. Copyright Lindsey Stoker 2007. "Angkor Wat is the largest archaeological religious site in the world. Its temple ruins are the remnants ...
In love with Cambodian Children
This is a top pick! ... for $2 at midnight. When a naked little boy places his hands together and bows to you from a wooden boat. I am in love with Cambodia's children. There is now no question in my mind that the best souvenir I could take home from here is a child in ...
Angkor Wat
This is a top pick! ... reminds me a lot of Tanzania: banana trees and dilapidated thatched roof huts and naked brown babies playing in the dust. Siem Reap is a burgeoning backpacker oasis in the midst of dire poverty. Although we had purchased a room in advance in ...
Angkor Wat
This is a top pick! ... surface, though, you wouldn't be able to tell. The people here are friendly and eager to please, especially in Siem Reap where tourism dollars fuel the economy. Adorable children follow you around selling postcards ("Hello, mister! Where ...
Sunrise, Sunset...Sunrise
This is a top pick! ... time in Phnom Penh. I can only now assume though that the people who feel that way spent most of their Cambodian time in Siem Reap. I got an immediate taste of the lunacy around the tourist meat market when we pulled into the bus station. The station was ...
It's the Heat - and the Humanity!
This is a top pick! Well, I've found it - the smelliest place on earth. And the winner of this dubious title is: Siem Reap, Cambodia! After all of our adventures on the bus and because we hadn't yet explored any rivers, we decided to take a speedboat to Siem Reap, the ...
Stay On the Path!
This is a top pick! ... Well, the other reason to come here is to see the temples of Angkor Wat...said to be one of mankinds most amazing accomplishments. Siem Reap is a small, pleasant city to be based out of and I love the Khmer food. Let's have a look around ...
A bit of Cambodian culture
This is a top pick! ... still alive?" "Did we actually live through that?" - a sample of the questions we asked ourselves after we finally arrived in Siem Reap. All will be explained. The bus from Bangkok to Aranyaprathet (the Thai border town to Cambodia) was a good start ...
An Interview with Tene Dara
This is a top pick! His name is Tene Dara, a bookseller from the town of Siem Reap in Cambodia. For years after becoming disabled Dara was a begger but now with the help of the Angkor Association for the Disabled he has his own business. For most land mine victims AAD is ...
Amazing Angkor
This is a top pick! On Saturday 6 August, we boarded a morning flight for the short hop from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap, the busy little town which serves as the base from which to explore the ruins of Angkor. The town itself does not have much to offer, and is dominated by ...
Angkor What? and Kryptonite!
This is a top pick! Today we were up at 4.30am so we could go and see the sunrise over at Angkor Wat. We had hired a Tuk-Tuk drive for the day to take us to the different parts of Angkor to see the ruins. When it was time to get up, Lorna suggested just giving the Tuk Tuk ...
Chill out day in Siem Reap
This is a top pick! ... they were both excellent - I highly recommend this place - Oh, and Lorna said the wine was excellent too. Actually, I highly recommend Siem Reap. This really is a fantastic place and is not just about Angkor. It's just a great place to chill as well. I ...
Silent Partners
This is a top pick! If you spend enough time in Thailand, you're bound to see some pretty freaky things. Like monks smoking cigarettes while talking on their cellphones, or two-year olds balanced precariously without helmets on the handlebars of motor bikes. One ...
Angkor - not the ship kind. Temple Tour Day 1
This is a top pick! Temple Tour Day 1 After brekky we met up with Josh and went down to our allotted rickshaw driver who immediately threw all his toys out of his pram about having to drive three people round and not two, so we told him where to put his map of Angkor and ...
Incredible Angkor
This is a top pick! ... for the rest of the ride. A minor insult, only $5, but the bus company owner's rudeness was a sour introduction to Cambodia. The roads to Siem Reap, as in much of Cambodia, are astoundingly bad. Many are laterite and dirt, which devolves into a rut-field ...
Seeing Angkor Wat at Sunrise: PRICELESS!!!
This is a top pick! ... no, it only meant that today was as good a day as any for an adventure! I really want to experience the temples of Siem Reap properly and decide to not even bother waking up Janne, the finnish guy from the bus who I split the hostel room ...
Pedalling around Angkor
This is a top pick! ... would have been the same as LA with about one million inhabitants! Anyway, the closest town to Angkor nowadays is Siem Reap so this was our first stop in Cambodia as there were pretty cheap flights to it from KL. We decided to hire bikes for the 3 days ...
Anchor What Mate..
This is a top pick! ... in all The Temples of Angkor have rocketed into a top 3 position in our overall highlights list, they are simply sensational. Siem Reap as a base is a great little spot as well, certainly a tourist town now but with a nice quiet vibe about ...
Don't look back in Angkor
This is a top pick! ... potential girlfriend who he has been seeing for a couple of years (it can be quite hard to hear on a tuk-tuk). The town of Siem Reap lies very close to the hundreds of temples (296 to be precise) that were built hundreds of years ago (12thC to about ...
The Ancient Temples of Angkor
This is a top pick! ... trip to Cambodia wouldn't be worthit if you didn't go and see the Ruins of Angkor (a World Heritage Site), situated just outside Siem Reap and near the Great Lake. Angkor is a region of Cambodia that served as the seat of the Khmer Empire which ...
Tomb Raider country
This is a top pick! ... country over the last century. The journey continued in much the same vain for another 10 hours or so until we eventually reached Siem Reap about midnight. After such a journey we were gagging for a beer and likewise so did another couple, Dave and ...
Border incident to Angkor...
This is a top pick! ... to Cambodia's tourist economy's detriment (not one case was recorded within her borders), three childrens hospitals in Phnom Penh & Siem Reap recorded a record 9,000 cases of Dengue fever. We didn't get to hear about that though, why?, no westerners ...
Chapter 40: "Misteryoubuytshirtnow!"
This is a top pick! ... Siem Reap. In the end we bought tickets for 450Bt for Tuesday that included a VIP bus to the border, and then a "minivan" to Siem Reap. We also handed over our passports and had the travel agency get us Cambodian visas on Monday... we figured it would ...