Siem Reap Villas - Reviews and Rates

We arrived at Siem Reap in the dark (of course) and in a rainstorm (of course). The bus dumped us off in some pitch-black “bus depot” that was conveniently located too far from town to arrive by foot, so we negotiated with a tuk tuk driver to take us into town. He immediately tried to book us as a tuk tuk driver for getting to the te...

The group wanted to see the sun rise over the famous Angkor Wat Temple, after such a long day the day before, I really didn't fancy a 5am start and elected to stay in bed - aiming to meet up with the group at a later point. As it happened i had my own private guide around one of the 7 wonders of the world and have some amazing aeriel shots of t...

A long bus ride to Siem Reap, well four hours so not hugly long and also not the longest we'll do on this trip but we are aiming to shorten bus journey as much as possible by stopping at small towns along the way. The largest town like place we were in was paske so Siem Reap is very much welcomed by us. Western food, an opportunity to clean our ...

(Note: two previous entries before this one!) We caught the bus from Phnom Penh at 10:30am for the six hour journey to Siem Reap, the home of Angkor Wat, the national symbol of Cambodia which features on their flag. Now much to my embarrasment and horror, I smelt really bad. I had finally hit the point of smelly traveller. Not that it was my fau...

Sorry that I have been posting in a while. I mentioned before that we have a ton of reading to do.... Today we had the honor of seeing a traditional shadow puppet performance of the Reamke (which is the Cambodian version of the Ramayana). The puppets are leather cutouts that represent different characters. It's kind of hard to explain unless you...

Indiana Jones, Lara Croft, Soren White... the next tomb and relic raider. ( sorry no pics of me in Lycra ). After shortly touching down in Siem Reap, we made our way to the Temples of Angkor to start our journey of discovery into the Angkor and Khmer religious history. As you approach the temples for the first time, the hair tingling experience ...

So we have arrived in Cambodia, after a long line in immigration with hot sweaty foreigners, we took a shared taxi to Siem Reap, which took 3 hours. We spent he first day walking around as we always do to familiarize ourselves, then the next day we were off to see Angkor Wat. It was amazing but as for Siem Rep it is the only exiting thing it has...

Siem Reap 10th February 2007 Took the Mekong Express this morning ($10 each) to Siem Reap, on our way to the bus stop we got to see an Elephant being taken for a walk along the main road by the river front! It's a plesant journey only taking 5 hours and arrive for a late lunch in Siem Reap. We get picked up by a friendly Tuk Tuk driver who we hi...

Hi All I am posting this retrospectively as there has been an internet blackout in Siem Reap for the last 2 days (or as we were told in one internet cafe "Internet is closed" !!) Anyway we flew into Siem Reap from Vientiane on Saturday morning very early, no problems with the flights, they were a little delayed but we got there in one piece and ...

Looking at the newly aquired semi-water resistant sports watch with the flashing gazelles which I suppose are to symbolize agility and speed, I ponder the events of home. There are tweleve hours between my family and I, and despite my respect for their quiet morning states of slumber, I call. The sat phone is reading five bars, and if it were re...