Siem Reap

Trip Start Sep 02, 2005
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Trip End Sep 17, 2005


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Saturday, September 10, 2005

After I came back from Laos to Thailand. I got a tourist visa for Cambodia at Same Same guesthouse agency of Chaing Mai and headed for Siem Reap via Bangkok. Needless to say, the best attraction in Cambodia or in Southeast Asia is Angkor Wat. Without the ruins, I had not bothered to visit Cambodia. Two days after I finished my course of Thai massage and strolled around the night market with a British girl, I took a bus to Bangkok in the evening. When I arrived in Bangkok, I didn't know where I was. Left behind some touts and scammers as usual, I headed for a guesthouse to book a bus to the border of Cambodia. 

At the border, I had to have lunch with other tourists on a table and it was awkward. Actually, some tourists headed back to Bangkok, because they just wanted to extend the valid term of their tourist visa and I found out "they" needed the lunch break to wait for their passport with new Thailand visa. Curiously, "just as LP guide mentions", the bus for Siem Reap got a engine trouble on the way and arrived in front of a guesthouse at midnight. But because the room rate of the guesthouse was not so bad, I decided to stay there. At the guesthouse, I rent a motorbike with a driver for 12 USD for 3 days, but eventually I stayed there only for 2 days and paid 10 USD with some tip. The 3 day entrace pass for the ruin was 40 USD. Anyway, Angkor Wat was splendid. Especially, Ta Prohm was an unforgettable ruin. At a restaurant in front of the main ruin of Angkor Wat, I lost my driver, but the local girl from who I bought postcards helped me to search for him. At the end of the tour, we ate snake soup at a local restaurant built on a river with an another Cambodian driver who my driver invited. Honestly, the snake soup was terribly bad, but a good experience in Canbodia.

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