Ivy 2 Guesthouse Siem Reap

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After we’d finished the Bayon, we headed to lunch with our tuk-tuk driver Chin. I had a very excellent chicken spicy Khmer soup.
From lunch, we headed out on a longer trip to Banteay Srei, a temple about 20km out of Siem Reap. The kids had a bit of a nap on the way and it was an altogether lovely and interesting ride out there. Banteay Srei isn’t exactly much to write home about. It’s a beautiful temple but it’s nothing incredible ...

... and western delicacies. I ordered a gourmet sandwich and Gabe ordered something local and we were in heaven!

Feeling thoroughly refreshed we walked back to our tuk tuk driver and he pointed to where he would be waiting, then we walked across the bridge into Angkor Wat. The bridge spans quite a distance and takes you over a moat that is so large it could be a lake! On the other side a long cobbled walkway led to the ...

... to Angkor What?, of course, where completely unexpectedly I bumped into a group of people I'd travelled with through Laos! It's crazy how often you bump into the same people over and over again. The Angkor draught flowed, as you'd expect for $1 a glass.

Day 3 - I was determined to do a bike ride round the temples, despite the distances being in the tens of km and me being ridiculously hungover. The girls, however, were not up for it and spent the whole day in bed - lazy. The ...

... s their website: www.concertcambodia.org Please give what you can. I'd send you to Fiona and Anthony (hotel owners), but their good works are done on a private and voluntary basis. They don't yet have an official charity set up. For that reason, your gift to the Cambodian people can be sent to ConCERT.

You can also give to the Angkor Children's Hospital http://angkorhospital.org/default.php through Friends Without a Border ...

... Thom and other temples like the one used in tomb raider, which has the roots growing over the ruins that makes it feel as though the jungle is claiming it back for its own. The whole site is amazing to see and the scale of it all is mind blowing. Most of the main attractions are in the process of being restored or have undergone restoration. There are so many collapsed buildings that it is like a giant jigsaw ...

... engulfing some of the temples rocks and walls. We visit the largest, Angkor Thom which was the capital of the city after Angkor Wat during the latter stages of the Khmer empire and through the reign of several kings. Other temples we visited included Bayon and Baphuon.

We are extremely hot and decided to head back for an early lunch, then sleep for most of the day before we have an early dinner and an early night.