Amatao Tropical Residence Siem Reap

... go past me and it made me laugh. Our hostel was very chilled and our room was nice and spacious. We relaxed for the afternoon and that night we went to check out the night markets but the people were SO annoying there. The minute you look at something they are right over next to you staring at you as you looking around and following you and some of them pick up things and
ask you if you want them. I walk away whenever they do it because I cannot bare it and ...

... or, more elaborately, a little cart like the one I shared with someone from my hotel!

The wait for sunrise was fairly long, and the morning air was a little breezy. This was the perfect time to play some more with the settings of my camera!

This place is a nightmare, all the tuk tuk drivers are really hassling me as well as the begging children. I have booked a day tour to Angkor Wat tomorrow though, which should be really good. I am just relaxing today, although the weather really is too hot! My hotel room is nice and ...

... your imagination. Let's just say the dancers all look like they're at their second chacha lesson.

Siem Reap is a highly dichotomous city. It exists mostly to support the tourism industry for nearby Angkor (which means "holy city" or "capital city") 7 kms away. Some parts of the city are clean and very beautiful, other parts are very poor and dirty. Some roads are surprisingly in extremely bad shape and since there are so many tourists ...

OK it's REALLY hot here!! It is also monsson season so it will be sunny and then pour down with torrential rain and thunderstorms! We are now in Cambodia and I have very little time to write- we are getting about 4 hours sleep a night and the days are packed- I think I will go insane shortly. I keep waking up thinking about dollars and Bahts- bit annoying. We are sharing our room with a few lizards and mosquitos- very cosy!! Its SO nice here!! Less daunting ...

... from a construction project and should be OK. It takes some degree of bravery to obtain these. A stack of bricks left unattended in this country soon attracts unwelcome visitors, cockroaches, scorpions and snakes are common.

The bamboo schoolrooms themselves, situated to one side of the main courtyard were deeply impacted.

In the former sandpit, now a lake two foot deep, a little girl is having the time of her life on her new waterslide.

... 8217;t be the same without them.
The final site we visited was the infamous Angkor Wat. It was magnificent. We arrived there at the best part of the day too as the morning had been grey and misty and not ideal for photos whereas by the time we got to Angkor Wat the sun was shining and beginning to make towards sunset while the clouds had lifted and the grey dull been replaced with much brighter, fluffy clouds to cheer the place up. The building was just so impressive. There ...

... welfare system here. So I have been trying to give something whever possible, but there are just so many that there's no way you can help everybody. It really is so sad that people survived all the horrible things they must have gone through under the Khmer Rouge only to be randomly maimed or killed by a landmine decades later. You would have though anyone who survives the Khmer Rouge would have already been through enough ...

... photos that I saw were having more brownish color but surprisingly ours are very much like shooting ...

... tired the next morning, but got up at 4:15 in order to catch the 5:55 train out of Bangkok to Cambodia. The train was fairly decent, especially since it cost us $1 each. The morning passed pretty nicely. The cars weren't air conditioned, but large open windows provided a relaxing breeze. By about 10am, though, it was too hot outside for the breeze to sufficiently cool us, so we spent the last hour and a half roasting.

The ...