La Residence D Angkor Siem Reap

... strongly to look after the weaker members. However one young gentleman assured our lovely three year old Sophon that as she was no longer the baby of the family she would have to leave. A heartbroken Sophon was retrieved on her way to the gates in floods of tears. She has been very much reassured otherwise with lots of hugs and TLC. Someone will be doing some extra work cleaning out the toilets today, and Sophon might just get an ice lolly.<br><br>

... we headed out the other direction then where we came. On the outskirts, 2 young kids in a flatboat met us and latched on to the back of ours. With a grove of trees on both sides we stopped and our two rowing kids pulled along side of us and the boat crew motioned us to and helped us climb aboard their smaller flat boat. I was none too excited about this because I don&#8217;t have the best of balance since I haven&#8217;t been able to practice yoga in over a month but I ...

... won't help. They just roll up their sleeves, work hard, and get it done, all of them together. I think after Katrina, they would have had New Orleans cleaned out and rebuilt within a few weeks. Lack of government support would not even be an issue.<br><br>All of the rice paddies I saw were flooded. I have since talked to an actual rice farmer. Many rice fields can go up to a couple of weeks under flood water. More ...

... reflection pools on either side, appeared gradually from the darkness - the immense The Angkor Wat! The building itself is much bigger than we thought and we were quite surprised tourists are allowed in and all through the different chambers. All the pillars, steps, walls etc have amazingly intricate carvings. It is insane. The sheer size of the structure with such detail just blows your mind.<br><br>As we made our way from one ...

... We have spent the last two days fully cycling from temple to temple. <br> <br>Angkor Wat is Bloody Impresssive I can tell you! these huge temples just seem to emerge out of the jungle; some detailed with carvings, others crumbling from the jungle. So we are most certainly very warn out from the last two days. <br> <br>We were ...

... Casey, and off we went. <br><br>The first thing I noticed was the landscape. Instead of the lush green sweeping mountains of Laos, Siem Reap was flat, dry and dusty. Apparently there is still illegal logging going on and the forest has been pillaged from 70% covering the land, to 30%. In the papers currently, the King is pleading for everyone to plant trees... <br><br>Siem Reap is very touristy, as it's the town closest to the ancient Angkor temples. Now I knew ...

... time. We missed most of the sunrise crowd and beat the tour buses crowd. It was a bit <br>busy while we were there, but we felt like we had some space and could go at our own pace. The bas-reliefs were incredible. The book that we bought a couple of days ago, Ancient Angkor, was very good at explaining the details of the reliefs. The upper part of the temple is closed. There is scaffolding on the 2 main towers, so that was a bit disappointing. <br><br>Angkor ...

... dashed. The midday sun was high but compromised by opaque skies that should have been deep blue and were otherwise polluted by the air caused by vehicle pollution.<br>The Wat was thronged with other tourists. There's not much to say about the interior: crumbled and crumbling-away forecourts, pillars, corridors, statues of religious icons; you felt 'turfed out' by others who were determined to be 'turfed in.' I suppose the place was uniquely interesting ...