11.4 - 15.4.2008 Siem Reap. Cambodia Ranskalaiskolonialistien astuessa ensimmaista kertaa Angkorin pyhalle maankamaralle paikalliset maanviljelijat kertoivat pelonsekaisin tuntein etta: "..there are temples in the jungle that we're build either by gods or giants.." Niinpa niin. Temppeleita tosiaan on ja niita onkin sitten varmasti tarpeeksi pato...

Sunrise at Angkor was legendary. Bought a day pass and hiked around through 5 or so temple sites till sunset. The place is unbelievable and heavily stomped on. You can walk and climb pretty much anywhere, which may not be a good thing considering the amount of traffic it sees and is expected to see in the future. The amount of work put in to the...

Well Cambodia I heard was going to be a tough country to travel in, a very poor country and would offer the biggest culture shock of the South East Asian countries, but to be honest I found it completely fine. Understandably there was a bit of apprehension about the capital Phnom Penh when within the first hour of being there, quite a few of th...

soooo many temples.... crazy monkeys.... and buying a monk a bed (before trip) Siem Reap plan: lp-79 arr 16:04 (BK-1:15) PP boat/bus 4-5h

Hello I've just completed my 3-day tour of the Angkorian temples outside the town of Siem Reap, and, like the audience member enthralled by a musician's performance but denied an encore, i'm left wanting for more. For the uninitiated Angkor is a set of grandiose monuments created by Khmer kings from the 9th to 13th centuries in North-Western Cam...

We arrived in Siem Reap after a turbulent 2.5 hour flight out of Luang Prabang and lucked out in finding a room at a lovely hotel on the river.

Here goes again. I'd written a long and detailed account of our adventures in Siem Reap and around the temples with times they were built and the styles and what to look for in the photos, I then had a little nanny nap and the computer froze, and when I got it restarted my story had gone. *%#@^&%$# computers. This story isn't going to be so deta...

Daniel We left Bangkok on an early flight for Siem Reap, Cambodia. Apart from Laura, myself, and a few stragglers, the rest of the flight was booked by a group of Americans on a package tour. Now, the cliche of the brash and condescending American tourist is undoubtedly an unfair one, but it certainly fit this group snugly. I spent a good part o...

Left the dodgy guest house and found Earthwalkers (Soukah, owned by Thomas) Visited 3 main tepmles - Angkor Wat, Bayon and Ta phrom )a few others in between.

As it turns out, things didn't work out with the orphanage so we ended up leaving Phnom Penh on Monday and heading to Siem Reap. Well, that isn't totally accurate. It was more like Phnom Penh didn't work out with me and the orphanage took a long enough time getting back to us that we lost our original enthusiasm and the city soured. I had my fir...