Hey there Cowboys and Girls its me desperately trying to catch up with the blog...before we once again jump on a bus.... Well the bus journey was a real joker. 'Youll be there by 5pm' says the man selling the ticket. We arrived at 10.30 pm after a lot of hours and a flat coach tyre on road the lonely planet describes as 'the boulevard of broken ...

Hello SATURDAY We arrived in Siem Reap on Saturday at about 2-3pm. I travelled by boat, but the girls went by bus to save a bit of money. Time wise it was pretty much the same, but the views from the boat were amazing. We were all up at about 6am, for departure of Phnom Pehn at 6.30am! What is WITH all these early mornings?! We had been chatting...

Bus to Siem Reap wasn't too bad, first bus trip during the day in ages. Booked into the guest house affiliated with the tour company we'd used after a ride from the bus station by Tuk Tuk. Then went to one of the small temples near Angkor Wat to watch the sunset, unfortunately it was behind clouds but still a fantastic view of the Tonle Sap. I d...

After a very early start we get picked up and taken to our bus for the 6 hour journey to Siem Reap. Once we arrive the bus driver asks us if we have a place to stay and as we don't he finds a tuk tuk driver to take us into the main part of the town to a hotel. We ask the tuk tuk driver to drop us off at a different guest house and we arrange for...

Sunday 16th May We left early and caught our bus to Siem Reap. It was 7 hours and the road has recently been sealed so made for a fairly smooth journey as Cambodias main roads are normally dirt track but they are making big progress. We arrived in Siem Reap late afternoon and checked into the Popular Guest House for $5 a night. We headed out to ...

25/02/2007 Final morning in Phnom Pehn and headed to the National Museum which is predominately dedicated to the Khmer empire and Angkor Wat artifacts. A good starting point to get us in the mood for Siem Reap and Angkor temples, which we headed to in the afternoon by bus. The journey was a reasonable 5 hours where on reaching Siem Reap we booke...

I cleared out of the GST Guest house at around 6.30am and went to catch my bus. I wanted to get all the way to Siem Reap in the North of Cambodia today but could only get a ticket as far as the capital Phnom Penh. Once in Phnom Penh I spent fifteen minutes or so getting another ticket to Siem Reap and was on the new bus within the hour. That was...

just visited a friend

Hardcore cycling cost my health? No it was not that tiring. But I blame on the choice of accommodation. Popular Guest House in Siem Reap has rave reviews in Lonely Planet and Chikyuu no aruki kata (Japanese travel guide book), and is a magnet of backpakers from all around the world. The cheap room $3 is steamy with the fan on and the shared bath...

We were a little late for our drivers on Friday (4th July) but it didn't really matter as we were paying them enough to wait for us! The ride to the mountains took longer than expected, very bumpy & very dusty.. we had to make regular stops for Steve as he kept getting a numb-bum on the back of Andy's bike. (Steve had totally misheard 'Pang'...

Spectacular, amazing, magnificent, breathtaking, marvelous. Any of those words could be used to describe the ruins of Angkor, and they would be insufficient. If you are in Southeast Asia, you have to come visit these ruins from the Khmer empire. There are numerous sites you can visit, but our 3 favorites were Angkor Wat, Bayon Temple in Angkor T...

Rich** We landed safely in Kuala Lumpor after a gruelling flight from London's Heathrow, after a flight from Manchester. With me so far? Good. Next came a transfer flight to Johor Bharu which took only a couple of hours, where we where met by Mel's godfather (not a gangster) who lives in Singapore. He drove us through the border as I partially f...

Nogle vil mene, og heriblandt LP(Lonely Planet), at turen fra den Thailand-cambodianske graense, Poi Pet, til Siem Reap, er den mest beskidte, ubehagelige og helvedesnaere bustur du kan komme ud for i sydoestasien. Til det kan vi kun, naar vi engang har undertrykt vores latter, sige én ting: "Tag til Burma". Vi var, gennem LP og andre rejsende, ...