Bakong Guest House Siem Reap

... housing is traditionally a large wooden house on stilts, with a cool area underneath, where the family can breed animals, cook and carry on daily life. When the rains come this area can be abandoned if required.

In our school this area has been built up to provide accommodation and a cooking area. All will now need repair.

Opposite we have our office and were able to save the electronics. All of our desks now rest on some old bricks left ...

... the kids provided made it all the more worth it. We came to the conclusion this must be where the family lived as well as worked - with one hammock and one platform under the roof but not enclosed with walls for the whole family. No toys to be seen, certainly no TV’s or anything of the like and yet even with their Mum working hard the kids never once got in her way and the little one only made his presence known when it was indeed time for a feed. Even that he ...

... brought literature and the same fierce determination she brings to getting complimentary hotel services– [Andrea: I want to point out that rabies causes excess saliva, comas and aggressiveness. Jenn should be grateful that I am determined to save her from herself. If she starts frothing at the mouth, she’s on her own.] I’ve limited myself to only whispering nice things to the dogs that pass by outside of Andrea’s earshot. On a ...

... For the entire ride there weren't more than two or three minutes that would go by before he would honk on the thing. The thing is his honking was really inconsistent. He would honk at bikes that were clearly on the side of the road and not in the way, he would honk at chicks walking away from the road, he honk at the trucks with ten people in them and then, when we were on the open road and there was no one left to honk at, he'd just start tooting anyway. What the hell! This ...

... and looked at all the meat, fish and veg stalls. It stank and was very dirty there were live fish in bowls, whole dead chikens that had been plucked but were complete with beaks, feet and eyes but still worth a visit.

After that we continued our relaxing theme day by having another type of massage - a fish massage. We sat with our feet in a ...

... reach the other side. Up to now the quickest team is 16 mins. Thats from us trying to explain what they have to do, to all of them being on the other side of the room. The differences between the groups has been amazing, with some carrying the little ones across, whilst others just going across 2 at a time and one having to come back to deliver the plates back.!.

We went to a quiz night last night at one of the bars. The aim ...

... in size) and was nearly a kilometre wide. A truly epic feat in that period. The actual complex was in a really good state with not too much damage. The central pyramid was constructed from sandstone. Elephant carvings could be found on the corners of every tier, with pairs of small shrines on their flanks. The main complex was surrounded by 6 brick towers, much in the same vein as Preah Ko. Why change a good thing? It took about an hour to ...

... which is really a roadside shop next to the Cambodian Consulate sign. We were escorted thru Thai departure, thru the health check, thru Cambodian immigration and Cambodian visa procedure by a young man in a yellow shirt we couldn’t seem to shake. We did end up paying 25 bucks for a visa instead of 20 but what can you do. On the other side we tried again to shake our yellow shirted friend but he was joined by another yellow shirted escort and it was impossible to shake them ...

... tuk driver to take me around the temples as it's a vast site and a good 10/15 min drive out of town. I can't really do justice in describing what they were like. I'll just put some pictures up on here when I get back home and they can do the explaining. Parts of the Tomb Raider scenes were filmed here with the temples in the jungle and trees literally growing out of walls. It's pretty crazy stuff. Spent the whole of my second day in ...