Angkor Paradise Siem Reap

... 9 a bottle there are one or two additions to my minibar as well.

Out and about down the Siem Reap river yesterday to one of the more outlying temples, Phnom Krom, which stands on a hill overlooking the Tonle Sap Lake, one of the largest freshwater lakes in Asia, which though currently brimming will shrink to one fifth of this size by the end of the dry season. This area has few tourists and is full of picnicking locals, eating from roadside stands or their ...

Had to get up at 04:00 to gamble on a good sunrise over Angkor Wat but the wholeday was well worth it, really hot day and really exhausting but impressive none the less. Once you 've seen one temple you've seen them all but you've still got to go to them all !

... market and tried out Dr Fish (where you put your feet in a pool of water and little fish eat off the dead skin) which was weird - and ticklish then bought a few momentos from Cambodia.
Early bus the next day, 2.5 hours to the border, then 15 mins in tuk tuks to the bus station in Thailand - 5 hours by bus to Bangkok and 30mins in a taxi to the hotel = LONG DAY!!!

PS can't believe what is going on in the world right now - earthquakes and tsunamis galore ... CRAZY!!!

We started our day off with Adam getting his birthday card from our mates at work. Then jumped on a bus at 7am to Siem Reap in Cambodia (Kampuchia).

We're meeting some cool people in our travels, and often its when we're on tours or busing it somewhere.

So we're on the bus from Saigon, to Phenom Penh, then another bus from Phenom Penh to Siem Reap. 12 hours ...

... of Angkor Thom was daunting. It measures 3km in length on each of its four 8m-high walls -- all of which was once surrounded by a moat up to 100m wide. It was really hot by the time we got here so we looked around very quickly.
We saved the best for last - Angok Wat!! It was a spectacular sight, walking over the moat and just looking at the largest religious monument in the world.
After visiting Angok Wat ...

... food then visited this landmine museum. On the way there, it rained really hard so Kim drove us under someone's hut to stay dry. In the hut, this family had been grilling some frog kebabs. They offered some to me and I eagerly accepted. I have to say this is the first food I've tried here that I found truely disgusting. It still had ribs in the meat and it tasted just aweful! I finished one of the frogs to be polite but it was a struggle to say the least.
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... by the children selling books on the street. The conversation went something like this. “Where are you from?” “England”. “I know the capital of England is London. There are four countries in the United Kingdom – England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Your Prime Minister is Gordon Brown. Before that the Prime Minister was Tony Blair, then John Major, then Margaret Thatcher....” Bloody hell, these kids were like a walking ...

... out for good. They were very apologetic and gave us two free nights stay in addition to paying for the hospital visits and the transportation to and from the hospital.


After a very productive early morning, we hung out on the beach all day. It was amazing. The day was hot, the pool was cool and Matt managed to hobble to the side of the pool and put his entire body into the water except for his foot. It looked pretty funny but the pool felt great in the heat. On the ...

... would collapse. This explained why there wasn't much restoration work at this site. However, this site was popular among tourists mainly because of the movie "Tomb Raider".

After almost four hours at Ta Prohm, we were driven to a Khmer restaurant to have lunch. I couldn't remember the name of the restaurant, but the dishes were good.

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