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497 Taphul St. Siem Reap, Cambodia, 855-63-964-044
Siem Reap 10th February 2007 Took the Mekong Express this morning ($10 each) to Siem Reap, on our way to the bus stop we got to see an Elephant being taken for a walk along the main road by the river front! It's a plesant journey only taking 5 hours and arrive for a late lunch in Siem Reap. We get picked up by a friendly Tuk Tuk driver who we hire to take us round the temples for the next 3 days. Our hotel is excellent (Auberge M'ont Royal) and only cost $33 a night but it is set in tropical ...
Siem Reap, Cambodia danielandrachelWell we made it to Siem Reap early this morning. We left our apartment in Singapore at 4am, were on the plane and in flight by 7am. After landing and going through the e-visa check where the agent questioned why on my e-visa it said I was male (thanks Dan), we walked out of the airport to a man holding a sign for Gillian and Erica. As we were riding to our hotel, Auberge Mont Royal, we noticed a hairy white man running in short shorts down the main street. It was hilarious. Almost everyone is...
Siem reap, Cambodia eblockA 6am landing into Cambodia........When I looked out the window during the sunrise and saw a delta turn into farmland with scattered temples and palm trees, I knew I was in for something good, I could sense it. The airport at Siem Reap was a large, beautiful traditional-style building that reminded me of landing in Tahiti (only no girls to greet us with Frangipani flowers). Erica and I had both done e-visas on-line, so we went through a bit faster than the other tourists. Still, it took ...
Siem Reap, Cambodia haveyouseenherCe matin il pleut. C'est la première fois que le mauvais temps contrarie mes plans de promenade. Mais en fait cela ne tombe pas trop mal car je dois changer d'hôtel. Au revoir l'Angkor Star Hotel, bonjour l'Auberge Mont Royal. La rue de mon nouvel hôtel est assez boueuse, on arrive tout crotté après un gymkhana entre les flaques (photos prises le lendemain par temps sec...), mais l'endroit est plaisant. Pour une fois ma fenêtre a pour seul vis-à-vis un bougainvillier et un palmier :-) Et ceri...
Angkor Wat, Cambodia otherguruMon pass pour les temples expire aujourd'hui. Finies les visites à pied ou en tuk-tuk, vive le vélo ! Il faut encore trouver une machine en bon état. $2 pour la location à la journée, c'est très bon marché, mais je ne vous dis pas la bécane que vous récupérez en échange... Dans le premier magasin que je croise, personne. Il y a du bruit au fond... « Hello? ». Et voilà qu'arrive une gamine de 5 ou 6 ans qui tient le magasin à elle toute seule ! A part « Bicycle, 2 dollars », la discussion est ...
Siem Reap, Cambodia otherguruWords can't descibe an experience at Angkor Wat so I'm giving it to you in a slide show. I focused on the more obscure temples. Enjoy!
Siem Reap, Cambodia pujitaSoooo........where do we start?!?! It feels as though we last entered a blog a year ago but it was only 2 weeks ago. OK, so we've done a lot over the past few days.
Our first whole day in Siem Reap was a cultured with a man fish callled Wanda!!!! He was a tuk tuk man that dropped us around the temples of Ankor Wat. These temples were truly incredible. Old, big, pretty and Tomb Raider was filmed. As we approached one temple in particular we were dupped by a Cambodian man for a tour ...
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Soon, we were walking within it's walls, through the hallways that were really empty corridors as many of the temples no longer have roofs (those were built from wood). It wasn't until we walked in that we started seeing the stone carvings that Cambodia temples are famous for... and yes, they are every bit as extraordinary as I imagined. I can't even draw half the things they carved, much less create these figures in 3D. Somewhere along the ...
... s the sort of place PP is, particularly the lakeside...
Anyway, I had to move on, and the title of this update has probably given you a clue to where I am now - Siem Reap, which you won't have heard of, but just down the road is Angkor Wat, which you really SHOULD have heard of :)
I've spent the last 2 days exploring the temples there (I know I said previously that I was feeling templed-out, but I was saving myself for Angkor:) To say ...
... vegetables like morning glory and lotus stems, rice, rice wine (brandy!) etc. We got to help cook, which was very fun. I'm a vegetarian, so I didn't taste it. But it looked delicious.
Here are photos of the meal. Click on each photo to read the description.
If you want to know how to sign up for this tour, see my entry on "Up to my knees in muck.....!"
... tho. Even the guide said I looked like I had just got out of the shower!! Its good I suppose as it allows me to drink and eat my fill every night and hopefully keep the belly down as the food i so good I will end up going home a fat b**tard. Or as my pit monkey mate Gaz was quick to point out á fatter b**tard!! Cheers Gaz. Anyway a full day at Ankor yesterday and then back for a shower, siesta and then into town to possibly my favourite restaurant in the world. Happy Herb ...
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