Orient D Angkor Hotel Siem Reap

... town, a little market and a coffee and walked back to the Croc House..!! Okay, no action from the Crocs...and I admit neither from me the Lion King..eeuhm.. But my Blondy and I were still doing our Brother From My Mother bit........" We Have A Dream.!! good night!
We woke up the next day about 12-ish. A good sleep and we strolled after breakfast around town a bit. Dark clouds were forming, but it all looked good towards Ankor Wat, ( Temple Heaven) we ...

... and remain on the opposite side of the road until another car approaches. Driving with a mobile is ok, and we have seen a few instances of whole families travelling on a two seater motobike (e.g. child, adult, 2nd child, 2nd adult). Other things to note are that the roads are dusty and travel is quite smelly, and so sunglasses/ maybe bandana are advised.

We plan to spend the next few days visiting the temples at Angkor Wat.

... undiscovered and forgotten place and you definitely feel taken back when it appears in front of you. Sometimes the serenity of the temples is disturbed by loud, photo snapping visitors (I was only the latter) but it is good for Cambodia that tourism is becoming so established and they can share they country with the rest of us.

Visiting Siem Reap after Phnom Penh made me view Cambodia as a dichotomous country as they balance their horrifying recent past with the ...

... budhistische en hinduistische beelden. Na een enorme rondtour kwamen we rond half 3 een stuk wijzer terug in Siem Reap.

De tweede dag ben ik zelf op pad gegaan, we waren allemaal behoorlijk uitgeblust na gister. Maar omdat ik amper foto's had (wel van de zonsopkomst gelukkig) heb ik met m'n persoonlijk tuk-tuk chauffeur nog een rondje gedaan langs de tempels en uitgebreid de tijd genomen mooie foto's te maken. En ik heb nog 2 andere tempels ...

... but at this point we had 5 minutes till the plane left).

So after a rather bumpy and disconcerting flight, we are now thanking God to actually be in Cambodia, which seems like a very friendly lovely lovely non-Laos airport type place, which is a relief. Dave, having paid for the tickets on his credit card, is emailing Beezlebub to try and get all the money refunded and wired to collect tomorrow. To be continued.......

p.s. ARRRGH

... Project No.1 – Mar 17, 2009

... made Siem Reap something of a second home. We were in the ruins today where most of "Tomb Raider" was filmed, and this is also the place where Jolie apparently fell in love with the people and atmosphere. We ate lunch today at Mick Jaggers favorite Cambodian restaurant.... I guess load's of celeb's like it here.

We are both happy, healthy, and doing fine. Getting a little bit bummed that our trip is almost on the downhill slope however (though thats probably a good ...

... job. The stones are around and the country is working *************struct the the temples using the old stones around and some new material as well.
Walking around the field of stones was kinda creepy. It's in the jungle and we heard these strange music coming from within the forest. I tried to figure out where it was coming from but the ants starting biting my legs HARD and Becca wanted to go. The music kinda reminded me of that strange tribal sound from ...

... were used several times per passport. And oh yeah, Felicia got her luggage searched. But eventually we got thru ok, and met our personal tour guide for the week, Kim San. He had sign held up with felicia's name. He took us to meet our driver for the week, Tahn, who drove a Honda CRV. We had to hire both a guide and a driver because by Cambodian law, if you're a guide you can't be driving, and if you're a driver you're not ...

... I am not prepared to take the risk of leaving my passport with anyone. I enquired as to what would happen if my passport was lost while in the custody of the hotel? She eventually backed down and I paid for the night and checked into my room. I was not happy with the state of my room. Because I was only staying for two nights, I was not to bothered. I unpacked my stuff and decided to see what the city had to offer, Siem Reap is very dusty, the dust gets all ...