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National Road No 6, Phum Kasekam, Khum Sra Nga Siem Reap, Cambodia, 63-965000
I stayed for more than a week but tell you, 3 days is enough if you just want to see the major and famous temples. The most famous is Angkor Wat but it turned out after seing all their temples, my favorite was the Bayon Temple its a 4 sided face of Budha (very interesting!) Angkor Wat is just the biggest of all temples. Worth to see Bantey Srei, Ta Phrom (famous because of the movie Tomb Raider)Phnom Bakeng (view of the whole Angkor can be seen there), Elephant Terraces, Prasat Pre Rup (this ...
Siem Reap, Siem Reap, Cambodia chenselisanaI finally decided to do a rewrite on this place, looking back on it now I didn't do it justice and of course Ma has been onto me since I put the original entry up to tell me it was rubbish and do something about so here we go. This is the big one. We spent 3 days going around this place and still didn't even get close to seeing everything although we did see the main temples. Its bloody huge. And in our 3 days we got up for 2 sunrises and 2 sunsets. So as you can imagine we were pretty tired ...
Angkor Wat, Cambodia edsanozWell we left Ho Chi Minh the morning of the 9th on a 13 hr bus trip to Siem Reap via Penom Penh to meet up with Marcie and visit Angkor Wat. The bus trip was really long but enjoyable with beautiful countryside and villages to keep the kids distracted from the movies that were playing on the bus. The kids did a great job keeping it together through the whole trip which made it even better. When we arrived in Siem Reap we were met by a fellow that took us to the bungalow where we stayed, this ...
Siem Reap, Cambodia mchochimins
... we got through all the checkpoints and made it to the taxi pick up! On the way there, I almost puked from the smell - it was like rotten fish on the worst level ever!!!!!!!!!!<br><br>So 1 long taxi ride (on a very straight road) later, we were dropped off to get a tuktuk to our hostel. As we got out a monsoon descended upon us - u dont get rain like this is scotland! The ride to the hostel was quite menacing in the rain, we were clinging onto our bags for dear life! When we ...
Siem Reap, KH.16, Cambodia toributler... London was a small town of 50,000. <br><br>As we walked around, Paul and I commented that "we just don’t make ‘em like we used to". It was amazing to us that these could survive in the jungle for almost 1000 years and still be standing. The carvings were amazing and they’ve been worn away for over 800 years, it would have been something to see these things in their heyday ...
Phumi Ângkôr Krau, KH.16, Cambodia paulfeuerborn... being unsafe, so was a bit sceptical, but there was no need for this. Takeoff and landing were absolutely fine. The first stop was at Pakxe, further south. We had to disembark, then head into the terminal, go through immigration and get our exit stamp, then customs. It was only after sitting down in the departure lounge bored and looking in my wallet that I spotted that I still had £10 worth of kip, and I remembered reading that kip was not exchangeable ...
Siem Reap, Cambodia alastair6... with sandstone, others with granite. Some have moats and others are characterisized by the enormous fig trees that wraps its roots all around the ruins. Each temple had its own specific function and mastered water systems all around. I myself have visited Aztec and Inca temples and ruins and let me just say that those civilizations seem like amateurs compared with the Ancient Khmers. The stones were brought in to built the temples from 55 km away and were put together ...
Siem Reap, Cambodia izunia... rain could potentially put a damper on anyone's vacation, but for Asia and I, it was the icing on the cake! We took shelter in one of the many hallways and watched as the rain poured through holes in the ceiling, where bricks had crumbled and fell. The air was warm and humid, so walking to one end of the temple to the other wasn't uncomfortable, even when we found ourselves to be trapped ...
Siem Reap, KH.16, Cambodia triss68... all manner of creatures, from birds to bats. After taking a nice long stroll around the complex we decided to leave and after snapping away a few more times our tuk tuk driver took us to the next temple.<br><br>Now, I didn't really have a clue as to how far the temple was but it ended up being 40 miles away. Which, in a tuk tuk is a long journey. At the end of it, the sweat on my face acted as a kind of glue that had trapped a small layer of ...
Siem Reap, Cambodia apoc100... that visit the ruins (I don't envy those who have to do the visit in one day). I survive to the hordes of hawkers that try to sell you everything (for once, I come back empty-handed, so no need to worry, there is no gift as Buddha head or replica of khmer frieze). And I hope as well that you survive to the dozens of pics that I have uploaded to this post.<br><br>Despite my fever, I have to admit that Siem Reap is really a magic place.<br><br><br>
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