yup, still in Siem Reap. Today I traveled by car with 3 others to some of the temples outside the main Angkor Temple area. But this almost didn't happen. John and Birgit arranged for the transportation. Our guesthouse wanted to charge $75 to rent a car and driver for the day, but John wanted to shop around. He had an offer for 70, then his guest...

Argh Just wrote a really long entry and it didn't save!!!!! Here goes again! Got to the border of Cambodia early in the day and immediately the corruption was clear. There were no signs for tourists, leaving them merciless prey to touts and once through immigration you were shuttled through to the Government Transport office - a shop front with ...

I'll finish this another time. but we went to siemreap stayed in a nice place right in the centre of town. saw some cool temples for 2 days then left early in the morning the next day to go to bangkok!

Angkor Wat (the biggest religious monument anywhere in the world) has to be the most amazing man made place I have been to on earth. I ended up buying a weeks ticket ($60 but worth it) as the site is so massive. I couldn't be ***** with the tuk tuk/moto guides so opted to cycle to and from the gaff. This is a nice 5 mile ride through flat terrai...

This morning we were going to see the tomb raider temple. Yes the Cambodian government in all its wisdom (read greed) rented a real archeological relic to Hollywood so that Angolina Jolie could be seen running through the temple. Now when you see it you realise why Hollywood would rather pay production fees and use this place than try and recrea...

August 22nd: As mentioned in our previous entry, our trip to this fishing village deserves its own entry - it is simply too different to bunch it in between ancient temples.... Our guide from the previous day had told us about a couple of projects he's doing with some extremely poor people in one of the fishing villages nearby. We had talked to ...

Hello again, The Angkor empire began in 802 when the warrior Jayavarman II declared himself king. He unified what had previously been numerous, independent city/states. By the 12th century, the Angkor empire was one of the largest in the world. Angkor Thom was home to over 1 million people. By comparison, London's population at that time was onl...

Hallo zusammen, hier wie versprochen der zweite Eintrag aus Siem Reap. Zunächst nochmal zu der echt super gastfreundlichen Familie, bei der ich gewohnt habe. Die leben in einem kleinen Haus in einem ebenfalls kleinen Dorf in der Nähe von Angkor. Abgesehen von einem Generator, der von 18 bis 22 Uhr läuft, hat es im Dorf keinen Strom. Fliessend Wa...

Well the photos really don't do this place justice. it is the most magical place Ive ever been to. Absolutely loved it everybody must go! Angkor Wat is situated just outside Siem Reap, I imagine this is why Siem Reap is quite a tourist place to go. It was a lot smaller than Phnom Penh and a bit more rustic. There were all the usual western place...

Cambodia has been quite the experience so far. It is a country still recovering from the grips of a civil war that resulted in the genocidal killing of over 2 million Cambodians. However, despite a rather dark and gruesome recent history, the people here are quite jovial and talk frankly about what happen. Pol Pot's regime was intact no less tha...