Angkor Holiday Siem Reap

... that in few years there will be enormous changes in the economy and the general wellbeing of the place. A huge proportion of people are under 16, thanks to the Khmer Rouge. They are well educated and sharp and I don't think they will continue to allow themselves to be expoited byThailand, Vietnam and us tourists. Get here now while the beers are only $0.50!
Cheers Dean and Wendy

Back to head office this morning for my first morning back, having been working from my hotel for the last fortnight, only to find a new resident has moved in. A rather unfriendly one foot long snake fast asleep amongst our files. Not a hazard I face every day in Brighton it must be said. A local managed to deal with the problem whilst we did what most sensible people do under these circumstances and beat a hasty retreat.

Meanwhile I have crossed over from Pub ...

... tuk home ... there was water and flooding everywhere.
It then rained all night ... and all day today ... so the flooding is now even worse!
We left for Angkor Wat at 8.30am instead of our scheduled 4.30am ... and unfortunately it rained all day - so our photos won't be great.
Its an amazing place though ... most of it from the 10th and 12th centuries ... so pretty impressive.
Guess we'll just have to buy postcards of the nice sunrise pics!
Wasn't too impressed when ...

... see anything of interest. Finally I passed a group of locals that were eating by a small fire. They waved me down and I went over to talk to them. I tried to ask them if there were temple ruins nearby but their English wasn't very good. They were very friendly though. They obviously weren't used to seeing tourists and they were eager to talk to me despite their poor English. I told them where I was from and they let me try some of their food.

After ...

... were 23, which on the one hand made me feel old, but on the other, reassured me that I was hip and down with the kids. (Please note I have cleared this line with them).

People had warned me that Siem Reap was an incredibly 'touristy’ town and said that I probably wouldn’t like it. I doubt they could have got it more wrong. ‘Touristy’ here meant amazing restaurants, clean accommodation, and a brief reprieve from the Asian squat ...

... the next week so we'll get a chance to relax and soak more of our beautiful surroundings in.




Day 14: Phuket


We woke up this morning and stuffed ourselves silly with the free breakfast buffet - again. While there, we grabbed some buns for lunch "sammies" and headed off to the hospital to get Matt's wound cleaned and redressed. As we were leaving, we managed to lock ourselves out of our room which was funny for us at the time because we wondered ...

... deities, carved into the walls, leading archeologists to believe that this was a temple for women. Then, we were on the long journey back to Siem Reap Town.

At night, we went to Pub Street, just behind the Old Market Area, to have dinner. We saw the Cambodian BBQ with a range of exotic meats and decided to give it a go. We ordered kangaroo meat too.