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Siem Reap Slideshow
Siem Reap
Travel Blogs from Siem Reap, Cambodia
The wonders of Angkor Wat
This is a top pick! ... sculptures and other artworks. The room I had was very spacious and was decorated in traditional Khmer style. Loved it. Siem Reap itself is a charming town with a wide variety of restaurants, bars and cafes. The large expatriate community and ...
Phnom Penh to Siem Reap
This is a top pick! ... a local popular Cambodian dish and although she suffered from the usual arachnophobia's, decided it was a 'must see'. We had been in Cambodia for a while now and Tilly was a little despondent that she hadn't seen any to date. We were happily sitting on ...
Another Visit
This is a top pick! ... it was a nightmare. We were in a Toyota Camry, and we were flying. Since we had mentioned to many tourists that we were going overland to Siem Reap, they all said we are crazy and that we should fly as the road is to bad. Well fuck me, I wish I had a ...
Girls see more temples @Angkor
This is a top pick! ... the tree temples. One in particular was used in a Lara Croft film and is the current cover of the Lonely Planet Cambodia guide. It's a fabulously mysterious and atmospheric place, with trees melting all over the walls, inner courtyards are filled with the ...
Phnom Bakheng at Angkor Wat, Cambodia
This is a top pick! Phnom Bakheng at Angkor, Cambodia, is a Hindu temple in the form of a temple mountain. Dedicated to Shiva, and built at the end of the 9th century, during the reign of King Yasovarman (889-910 A.D.). Phnom Bakheng was constructed more than two centuries ...
Angkor Wat?
This is a top pick! ... . The rumour is that the airline with a monopoly pays a significant bribe to keep the road from the Cambodia border to Siem Reap in such terrible shape because other roads in the country are not nearly as bad. I have driven ...
Bayon at Angkor Wat, Cambodia
This is a top pick! Bayon - Doesn't look like much from a distance, but once you get an inside you're treated to an endless variety of angles and compositions of the 216 heads carved into the stone of 54 towers . It was one of the last temples built in Angkor, ...
On the Road to Angkor
This is a top pick! ... and jumped on a tuk-tuk at 5:30 in the morning, getting to the airport just in time before our plane took off for Siem Reap, Cambodia... When we landed in Siem Reap, the first thought that crossed my mind was 'Who's crazy idea was it to leave Laos ...
Just one more photo.....
This is a top pick! ... an hours apsara dancing which means heavenly nimph. Not really my cup of tea but nice to do something different. So after a week in Siem Reap we are much lighter of pocket and we've taken over 7 rolls of film including a black and white. Definitely ...
Eating! Eating! Eating!
This is a top pick! Siem Reap, Cambodia - The bus ride to the border with Cambodia was only ten minutes. Dave boy and I were standing, along with our new Canadian friends, Sarah and Amy and another ten people! The border crossing took two hours of sitting, well, if you ...
Khmer kindness
This is a top pick! ... end I resorted to giving them all my old sweets to shut them up. Seemed to work. Really surprised when we arrived in Siem Reap as the poverty seemed to have vanished and the rubbish and dirt and swamp was replaced with french colonial style houses and ...
Angkor What??
This is a top pick! ... square km. Together they make up one of the great must-see cultural sites of the world, up there with Macchu Picchu and the Pyramids. Siem Reap has recently been transformed by a tourist boom. Only just over 10 years it was still a bit of a no-go area ...
What amazing Wats
This is a top pick! ... around. People would come and stare as they did in Pakistan. Some/all of the wooden thatched houses didn't even have outhouses. Siem Reap is the base town for exploring Angkor Wat and surrounding temples. One half day I hired a motorbike taxi, and on ...
Cambodian Happy Meals - Beat this, MacDonald's
This is a top pick! ... of years, it is firmly climbing its way back onto the SouthEast Asian backpacker trail. Older, moneyed tourists who fly into Siem Reap for personalized guided tours of Angkor Wat, can stay in hotels and resorts fit for royality and live like ...
Washed out of Angkor !!!
This is a top pick! ... way that we become bored with visiting, so we carefully chose which temples we wanted to visit and set off the short distance from Siem Reap. Soon we arrived at the ticket office and purchased our one day passes, you can get 3 and 7 day options too! ...
Crazy Bamboo Train
This is a top pick! Battambang, Cambodia - We arrived in Battambang late morning and were greeted by a tuk tuk driver with a guesthouse brochure. Seeing as we had no where booked, we opted for the free ride to take a look. The guesthouse was perfect, we chose a cheaper room ...
Siem Reap, Cambodia
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Horse Riding!
This is a top pick! On Friday 30th Sep we went for our eagerly antcipiated ride at the Happy Ranch Horse Farm in Siem Reap. Our planning was a bit last minute for this and we ended up having to rush out in the morning and skip breakfast (this will become relevant). We were ...
Magical Angkor
This is a top pick! We decided to take Lonely Planet's recommendation and do the transport from Bangkok to Siem Reap independently. The bus ride from Bangkok to the Thai border went smooth...but at the border things changed and we were tormented by thousands of ...
To Angkor Wat
This is a top pick! ... next day. There truly is no escape. Luckily these guys were quite chill and nice to just hang out with. Angkor is 6-7 km from Siem Reap and Ben and I decided it would be cheap and good excercise to ride bikes around the ruins for the day. I've already ...
Some Like it Hot!
This is a top pick! ... ' bus, which was more like 'RIP' bus, but still the fans were working so I wasn't complaining. The road trip from Poipet to Siem Reap was incredibly bumpy, and was like trying to fall asleep on a roller coaster, which is quite amusing at first, but soon ...
More Temples and the Mine Museum
This is a top pick! ... information for anyone who is interested: www.cambodialandminemuseum.org or www.landmine-relief-fund.com Cambodian Landmine Museum, Siem Reap Angkor, Cambodia 855-12-598-951 The United States is one of many countries including China and Russia ...
The sunrise over Angkor Wat
This is a top pick! ... up their tripods for the sunset, but they soon cleared it, seeing that it was too hazy for a good picture. Would I go to Siem Reap again? Angkor was amazing beyond my imagination. However, the city is very poor and it was hard for me to see little ...
Angkor Wot?
This is a top pick! ... to each other, yet are worlds apart (see 26th August). Today we took a break from the ruins and spent the day around Siam Reap. We got a lift in and decided to have a nosey around, see Mr.Bunny (see tomorrow's entry) to confirm times for tomorrow, do ...
Angkor, Day 3
This is a top pick! ... him late. There was nothing left to see, so we made our way back. Later on, we went to the street that is not Siem Reap, Westyville. This street has been purposely built for the Westerners. In fact, they block the road off at either end and place ...
Ankor What?
This is a top pick! On the bus ride from Phenom Phen to Siem Reap, we met a few Quebecois. At yet another planned bus stop, Asim must have been really hungry because the only food that she found edible was a bag of fried crickets. I was really impressed that a ...
The mysteries of Angkor - Day 1
This is a top pick! ... days in the complex. The Big Circuit encompasses a good representation of the rich variety of architecture here. This was my route: Siem Reap town - Prasat Kravan - Sras Srang (for sunrise) - Banteay Kdei - Pre Rup - Banteay Samre - East Mebon - Ta ...
2nd full day in Angkor Wat
This is a top pick! ... in him saying he should have smacked me one I threw him out. This did not bode well for me, as I was meant to be staying in Cambodia with him and Pete for the next few days. And not only that, the very next day I was meant to be going round the rest of ...
Flat tires: a gift from God.
This is a top pick! Iˇ¦ve been having a real hard time trying to figure out what to write about Siem Reap, and my experiences in Cambodia in general, so forgive me if this entry lacks the usual articulation. When I began to plan the logistics of my trip, I thought of ...