Angkor Holiday Hotel

... far i have braved the wilds of Singapore Airport and evaded the mythical masses of Japanese tourists swamping the Angkor Wat, and now i am staying at my Uncle's Hotel After my one month stint in Cambodia my entire family came over for Christmas to get a ...

... where the last day of the Cambun festival is taking place (monks honouring dead ancestors) and been told it is a very special day for everyone as i noticed most shops have been closed as its also a national holiday.       ...

... banana chips, water and pot noodles and we returned to the hotel for a well-earned rest ! The Golden Mango Inn is proving to be a good choice – quiet, with fast Internet and lots of TV channels. This holiday is hard work – but it's paying ...

... taking a turn, passed and processed our visa paperwork and passports.  Soon we were on our way with our guide to the Angkor Holiday Hotel along the road leading into Siem Reap.  It was late so we opted for a quick snack at the hotel bar before ...

... got some nice photos but you have to ask yourself whether it’s worth getting up at 4am on holiday. Probably not.  Anyhow, they all returned to the hotel for breakfast after the sunrise show, just in time to head over to Angkor Wat again to see ...

... to reach our hotel, though many streets had been roped off and the major sights and restaurants closed in view of the public holiday set to last for the next 3 days.  In the afternoon we wandered through the crowds along the river where the boat ...

... a guide to Angkor Wat, for just 15 usd, while their face value is more than 50. The afternoon we spent exploring Angkor Thom - mostly the Bayon, where we took funny photos with the multitude of faces of the God King, and we finished the day again ...

... hours on the Thai side, an hour at the border, and about 2.5 hours on the Cambodian side.  We checked into a hotel and were at Angkor by mid-afternoon.  (Oh, and for travelers reading this:  Prum Bayon Hotel is really great.  The ...

... the sun rise over Angkor Wat. It turned out that he wasn't very well and his brother replaced him. We left the hotel at 5am and drove straight to Angkor Wat. It was a fantastic experience arriving at 5.30am just in time to witness the sun rising over the ...

... 15 minutes to get there. Once we paid our admissions ($40=supposed to have been included=rage) we head in. Arriving at Angkor Wat was totally spectacular. I don't have a large enough vocubulary to describe the awesome feeling of seeing it, but goodle and ...

... a bit, and then suddenly disappeared into a dust cloud. It was absoutely pathetic. When I think about the sunsets I missed this holiday, I can't believe I got to this one and it was so rubbish! Still the view was still pretty cool. When we got back ...

... arranged into the price of our trip to Cambodia was the following: Cambodian border visa Transport to Siem Reap Hotel for two nights Guides and tuk tuk transfer to Angkor Wat for a day and a half. Bus or taxi to Phenom Penh No bullshit. The bullshit part ...

... hotel construction, especially the mammoth sized ones. One million tourists per year and still they were adding 100's of hotel rooms. First impressions of Angkor – staggering in size. You enter via  1/2km long causeway across a large moat to ...

... duration of the journey.  Thank God for the iPod!   Due to the amount of tourists that come to visit the temples of Angkor, Siem Reap is a bustling town full of hotels, bars and restaurants.  Once again, we had been given a few good tips on ...

... is really trying to build its tourism industry, and they're doing a really nice job. We adored our hotel (FCC Angkor) - a boutique hotel that is the sister outpost of a famous restaurant in Phnom Penh (FCC stands for Foreign Correspondents Club - ...

Song of the day: Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys "And it's a holiday in Cambodia Where you’ll do what you’re told In a holiday in Camboida Where the tourists will wreck your bones." Ok, so I went for the more obvious song choice this ...

Suosdey (hello!) A three day holiday weekend allowed for a trip to Siem Reap and Angkor Wat.  Quick 1 hour flight and voila, my third country in 3 months :)  and who knew, if you don't have a picture for the visa application, $1.00 and all is ...

... at our destination town, you still had the sense of being in colloquial town in the middle of a tropical countryside. Our trip to Angkor Wat started at 5am in order to catch to sun rise over the temple. Unfortunately the clouds meant that all that ...

... were clearly very poor and it is easier to believe that the world can be just that simple - books and pencils bought for kids are meant for those in need. And now we have to run to get to the awe-inspiring temples of Angkor Watt (think Tomb ...

... we read about how visitors to Angor Wat peak during the Chinese New Year and we were going to be in Siem Reap for the holiday.  Siem Reap was busy for our entire trip and I noticed that our hotel (Popular Guesthouse) had filled up at different points ...

... from yesterday, let alone trying to catch a sunrise and another full day of templedom ahead of us! I tell you, this 8 month holiday business is absolutely KNACKERING... ;) Anyway, we got downstairs on time, met our tuk-tuk driver in the murky ...