Ta Phrom Hotel Siem Reap

... are melting over it. It's a cool place but overrun with tourists.
We then stopped at a Khmer place for lunch - great spicy soup and terrific amok. Then headed home for a nap.
Greeted with the news that Sammi (our dog) had been taken to the pound after escaping. Stressful having to deal with that.
Kids woke very late so we decided to forgo the rest of the Angkor complex today. We decided to hit the Night Market. Immediately, we found the kissing ...

So this morning I wake up to discover I have a major hangover and also a gorilla in my bed goig by the name of Pete!!

Oh jesus I was so drunk last night!! I remember being sick like FOUR times!! It is meant to be Pete who does this kind of thing not ME!!

I begin to pack up the remainder of my stuff and then wake up Pete. Good job we are moving to somewhere with a pool whereby I can get rid of my ...

... country. It was raining when we arrived at Angkor outside the main moat (30m wide!) and embarked across the cobbled causeway sans flash light, or a good idea of where to go, but followed the general flow of tourists. Somewhere inside the outermost wall, we were approached by a Khmer, who offered us coffee. Yes! Expecting some strings attached, we followed, but the guy delivered value, offering up facts about buildings we passed, and more importantly, showing ...

... of the worms to the dying of the silk to the weaving itself.

You know I cant go long without popping something in my mouth though. We were walking through looking at the process used with the silk worm and our guide started talking about how people eat these silk worms. So, another continent, another worm. He picked up one of the boiled worms and handed it to me. I chomped down and the juices squirted into my mouth. I couldn’t think about it; I just swallowed.

... students decided to go to Phnom Penn a day earlier because of that, and I decided to stay behind, not ready to give up. Not wanting to sit around doing nothing, I teamed up with another guest in the hotel and hired a tuk-tuk, trying to go a lake south of the city, over flooded roads, but we finally had to turn back and when we stopped at a roadside restaurant to have lunch we found out that they just killed a big cobra that day so we had run into a good meal without ...

... this amazing technology, and the same design is used in buildings here today.

The stones fit together in an air-tight seal. The walls that are still standing - you couldn't fit a butter knife between the joints. The stones are kept together using tongue-and-groove, key-fit, and other joints. The stones were cut from both a mountain over 50 kilometers away, and from a local source less than 15 kilometers away. See the ...

... tuk driver at the end of the night that $1 is, in fact, the market price for a ride from zone 1.

Lessons Learned:

1. We picked the wrong night to drink buckets of mixed drinks...The next day was, by far, our longest day of traveling
2. You can take the boys out of Le Meridien, but you can't take Le Meridien out of the boys - ahem Rob, Justin, Ryan - glad we could pry you away from the resort to hang in town with us

... Buddhism to Hinduism by one of the kings. Thus I always believe that there are 2 things which have the most influence on people ...

... worse so decided to sit in the shade while I explored a little more. The stairways were very steep and the walkways around the buildings were narrow and close to one another but I had a great time climbing all over it. I made my way to the east side where there was a huge terrace ith the mandatory naga railings and lion statues. Once I was done I made my way back to where Theresa was – but she wasn’t there. Thinking she had ...

I was, as Dickens would say, 'up betimes in the morning,' for the ready to wait for the bus to take me on the last leg of this part of the journey. There isn't much to say about it. The town, for one thing, was fairly non-descript, rather shabby. I strolled over to the market, bought something to consume, and came back to the waiting place outside the hostel.
It was nice getting to know the Danish guy. He'd been spending a few months from home travel-ling ...