Happy 40th birthday to Cindy..... Two of my "children" are 40 now. Wow. Who would have thought the mother of two 40 year olds could climb the Harbor Bridge? (I hope I did). I love you, angel girl. Happy Birthday. And, here are multiple cakes because it's also Alice's grand-daughter's 16th birthday!!!! Two precious girls celebrating their birthda...

Siem Reap 10th February 2007 Took the Mekong Express this morning ($10 each) to Siem Reap, on our way to the bus stop we got to see an Elephant being taken for a walk along the main road by the river front! It's a plesant journey only taking 5 hours and arrive for a late lunch in Siem Reap. We get picked up by a friendly Tuk Tuk driver who we hi...

We have been having a hard time sending these out - frozen computers or whatever - hope this one works...We arrived in Siem Reap, Cambodia monday night. The Raffles Hotel - very pretty ! We have found the people here wonderful, very smiley and so wanting to be helpful ! Food has been very good ! Angkor Wat was amazing - considering when it was b...

Imagine This: Travelling from Bangkok to the Cambodian Border buy bus,in near Luxury. Greg, Cory H and myself travelling with around 40 people. we cross the border and get downsized to a bus half the size for the amount of people there are. No Problem. We then travel accross town and change buses(thank you god!). We downsize again, smaller bus.(...

This was an incredibly long and hot day. We started exploring the Angkor Thom complex (Angkor translates to "holy city"), which is where each of the temples shown in the pictures are located. It was an ancient city for worship, built between the 9th and 12th centuries, aged and looted during the many Cambodian wars. It is a 3km walled and moated...

Arrived in Siem Reap yesterday after probably the worst bus journey of our short travelling life. We had been warned well in advance about the Bangkok to Siem Reap bus journey. It's supposedly the "worst road" a back packer has to endure on any round the world trip. Its hard to know where to start, a good place would probably be the dictionary f...

We caught a late bus to Siem Reap. The bus was for local too so we found ourselves sent to the back of the bus with the roosters in the bamboo bags. Yes they'd even poked little holes in the bags so the roosters could breath. Thoughfull really seeing as the poor roosters were sideways and squashed into a tight space between peoples' feet and the...