Now, I didn't dive into my bus ride in yesterday's entry so I want to add a little color to that debacle. Upon sitting down on the bus, I began talking with a 20 year old Finnish guy (Janne) and a ~28 year old Norwegian couple. Throughout the day we formed an invincible team avoiding all of the border scams, of which there were plenty, and learn...

Home of the Angkors and floating villages! The temples of Angkor, built by the Khmer civilization between 802 and 1220 AD, represent one of humankind's most astonishing and enduring architectural achievements. From Angkor the Khmer kings ruled over a vast domain that reached from Vietnam to China to the Bay of Bengal. The structures one sees at ...

Here the counting system is based off of a somewhat base five system. It's very interesting to learn numbers and takes some getting used to! It's kind of fun, once you get the hang of it. Definitely, shopkeeprs are somewhat surprised when foreigners are able to count in their language. 1 - muy 2 - bpi 3 - bei 4 - buan 5 - bram 6 - bram muy 7 - b...

The next day we asked the same tour guide to take us to the floating village on the Tonle Sap (Asia's largest lake). During the dry season, the water flows down the Tonle Sap river out of the lake, down in a Southeasterly direction toward the Mekong. During the rainy season (June to Nov), the Mekong river overflows and forces the water in the To...

Down the Mekong from Huay Xai to Luang Prabang Well, we ended up making the Nagi of the Mekong boat cruise. We had come into Chiang Khong in Thailand (can't remember now if that's the name now since it's been a couple of days) after the border closing but had phoned ahead and they said it was all right as there would be a few more people on the ...

We took a large propellor plane to Siem Reap yesterday afternoon. Everyone was taking pics...quite a difference from the usual jet! The Siem Reap Airport is quite elegant and traditionally modern. Breezed through immigration and there was no customs? We took a small bus to the Freedom Hotel right outside of the downtown area. Very comfortable wi...

We arrived in Siem reap at 17.30. Everything went smoothly. We needed to pay 20 US dollar for the visa in Siem Reap (and we will pay 25 US dollar when we go out). As soon as we went out of the airport we met a young Norwegian couple who are travelling around the world, really interesting: they have lot of time but no much money ... well, I have ...

Hey all. Finishing up at Siem Riep. Only spent a couple of nights here. Went and saw the sunset at all the temples up here. The clouds disipated as i predicted right when sun sun hit the horizon. Rae said it was to cloudy but used good old Aussie know how and predicted the disipation. As you can see from my Pullitzer prize winning photography of...

We were lucky the owner of our guest house had scheduled a fantastic trip for the following morning. It was to an area where tourists are rarely seen. We would take a ride in a van for about 45 minutes to a small village. The road had just been put through to this area recently, before it could only be reached by boat. The village was really nea...

Just a place holder for some amazing pictures we took at the Angkor Wat temples in Siem Reap.