Lotus Angkor Siem Reap

... line each study my paperwork intently, look something up, then stamp something on one of my multiple pages. Then passes it to the next man, who does the same. And so on, and so on down the line. At the very end, my passport is returned to me, with a huge thick page pasted in with my visa, photo pasted in, and several stamps. I was to later learn each of these men works for a different government ministry, all of whom ...

... Bangkok all the way into Siem Reap with border crossing and all.! Well tip top sharp at 7.30 am we got picked up in front of our Palace and stepped into a little mini-van. Perfect! if this mini- van would bring us all the way to Siem Reap....it could not be better.Okay we were not the only ones..there had to be some other people to be picked up, and one of them was straight away my favorite NR 1 all time!!! This red haired girl from Oz-land stepped in, sat ...

... sheer size of the temples are breathtaking to behold and the number of them is pretty amazing. Tomb Raider was filmed here, of course we all take loads of pictures of us each being Angelina Jolie much to the amusement of the Korean tourists.

Head back to Bangkok and party hard yet again, LOVE Bangkok, so many things to do and see, go for fish massage where hundreds of tiny fish nibble away all the dead skin ...

... nine years ago. With it's famous 'Bar Street', surrounding restaurants and numerous markets, Siem Reap offers the weary traveller many home comforts and it's hard not to warm to the town. We hadn't felt this comfortable since we left Chiang Mai nearly two months ago.
There is, however, only one reason why people come to Seam Reap and that is, of course, for the temples of Angkor. Built over a three hundred year period, with both Hindu and ...

... laughed uncontrollably like a child with a new toy every time he nearly crashed or went over a big bump too fast.

The happy guest house is a really nice place, a short walk from the main town centre, but is in a nice quiet area of the city away from the big hotels and so away from the locals trying to sell you postcards and books on the street. The staff are friendly, welcoming and all willing to help with anything (we ...

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... some volunteer work at a school in Siem Reap but had the afternoon off. She said she was interested in seeing some other centers so I invited her along. We went down the street and rented bikes (from the same bike shop I used to go to!) and then headed off to Sangkheum. I had warned her that it would take 45 minutes. However, the road had been repaved and was actually navigable!! It was a lot more pleasant, a lot less scary, and took a lot less time than it used ...

... situation a middle-aged Thai (?) women who was sitting in the front row yelled at the bus driver to fix the AC. Insulted, the bus driver stopped the bus and told her to get off (we were in the middle of nowhere). She refused until she got her $7 back. At this point the driver stormed out of the bus and she proceeded to scream at his assistant. There was almost a lord of the flies moment where the 40 some odd backpackers were ready to throw her out of the bus because ...

... really awkward that they were just standing there watching us eat the whole time... I kept asking Felicia throughout the courses if they were still staring, and yup... the whole time.. but the minute a dish was finished, it was just as quickly whisked away and replaced with something else. What service! In the afternoon we visited the Temple called "Ta Prohm", it was the place where Angelina Jolie filmed Tomb Raider. Unlike many other Angkorian ...