Hi everyone, it is that time again another update from the sunny and incrediably humid shores of Vietnam. It has been really crazily busy over here recently with one group of AYAD's leaving and another group arriving, which means we are not the new guys anymore. There are 11 of them which was a bit overwhelming considering only 3 other people ca...

We took a bus from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap through beautiful countryside. Just outside of Phnom Penh were a series of brick factories which had beehive shaped kilns surrounded by iron buildings and piles of firewood and clay outside. The finished bricks were lined up in huge rows beside the factories. We past scores of people who were working in...

A day or so after I came close to breaking down into emotional tears of financial distress to my everloving parents, we left Krabi and headed overland to Siem Reap in Cambodia (20 or so hours in a combo of buses, taxis and tuktuks), where Marge and I are taking a few days to soak up the wonders of Angkor Wat. The trip was spectacularly exhaustin...

The best preserved and most popular temple here is Angkor Wat. The largest religious monument in the world! Built 1113 to 1150 AD, this is the supreme masterpiece of Khmer architecture. The temple is protected by a moat, 570-feet wide and 4-miles long. The walkway used to cross this moat is brimming with distracted tourists... notice the lack o...

We awoke from our first night in Siem Reap. In the room we had a pet cockroach and some satisfied mozzies-yuk. After Carl negotiated a discount for the dirty toilet, cockroach and unsavioury sights, he went and found another little guesthouse cheaper but much nicer. It even had a little cooling off pool near reception. SR had seemed seedy the fi...

Hello again, My favorite dance performance in Asia is in Siem Reap. Apsara dancing. I take every group there. It's hard to find performing art here. Karaoke is king! One of my friends took me out in the country to visit her aunt and uncle. They live in a simple three-walled house made of straw with mud floor. No running water. But they do have e...

for the first two nights in siem reap i did absolutely nothing but watch animal planet and WWF wrestling! i forget how good WWF was!! it was such a luxury to have a tv in my room and even a toilet and electricity after being in Laos. When i finally got out of the comfort of my bed i went to see the temples of Angkor which are absolutely amazing....

The Visa process in Cambodia was quick and easy, made even more straightforward by the distinct lack of any customs officials! A hotel car was at the airport and took us straight to our hotel on the outskirts of the town centre. The approach road from the airport to the town was lined with impressive looking hotels and resorts, something we were...

Siem Reap in Cambodia is the home of the famous Angkor Wat, a huge temple built in the 12th century, as well as many other amazing Buddhist temples. While there I saw many of the temples the town has to offer and I went on a boat tour of the floating villages; literally small towns floating on a huge lake. Seeing the amount of poverty and the w...

Monday Feb 26th This was my first flight on Bangkok Airways and myself and Si were very impressed, the flight was only 35 minutes and they served a full meal ! We arrived in Siem Reap, Cambodia at 9pm and immediately headed to Bar Street for some beers, the local brew was pretty good so we sampled a fair few and played some pool in the 'Angkor W...