Cambodia Travel Blogs

  To keep from having to carry my tennis shoes externally on my day pack, I left them for the staff at Siam Huts. Someone there could use them. I won't need shoes until my return flight at the end of March and I already picked out the ones I'll get for that trip. They are like a plastic slipp…

We finally arrive at the border and I have to admit that I wasn't so quiet at customs but there wasn't any problems with Aioh (remember armored comflict between Thailand and Cambodia) Once in Thailand I suggest to DON'T TAKE THE TRAIN! She told me that we will take the bus that carries people…

I wanted to take the train with a scenic view to Aranyaphratet, the border to Cambodia of Thailand, but Kuya Chok insisted that we should take a bus instead because he told us that the train with the scenic view also comes with not so scenic smelly people.  I tried to argue but my friend Eka h…

  Typhoon Ketsana had spun from the South China Sea, crossed Vietnam, and swept into central Cambodia. Its flooding was evident as my flight descended on approach to Siem Reap airport. It cost $2 for a motorbike taxi on badly pot-holed roads into town. I rode directly to the Funky Munky, sis…

  With two hours to wait before my bus to Sihanoukville, I walked over to Wat Phnom to look for the monk who had tied a red cloth bracelet onto my right wrist for good wishes last January.[See 'Going East' of my 'SE Asia for the Winter' blog]  The monk's blessing seemed confusing a…

When we exited the room and officially entered Cambodia, we found our new bus that would take us to Siem Reap. The small bus was considerably less comfortable than the vans on the Thai side and the bus driver had a serious lead foot. The road to Siem Reap is called "The Dancing Road" and it wil…

Our journey from Koh chang to Cambodia was a long one, Charleigh and I first got the boat from Ko Chang across to Trat dragging our luggage behind us tirelessly and then it was another long and uncomfortable bus journey, everyone and luggage literally squashed in, one guy didnt …

After i spend 1 days in the bus and another one day finding the accomadation and survey Seam Reap city. IT's time me to heritage Angkor wat from nowon. Today i plan to have a small circle tour as heritate all Angkor wat and some part of Angkor thom..Are u ready t…

8.30pm it was a 5mins walk from the guesthouse to the night market. it was a little too clean for us though..hah.. we were expecting some place a little more rundown and more suitable for price haggling. items there weren't really that cheap and bargainning was significant harder as…

Update: Yay! Staples fixed my memory card, I finally got Youtube working, so the video of me shooting the AK47 is now up! ******** Everyone in Cambodia thinks I'm Japanese. Nay, are convinced I'm Japanese. I'll walk down the street and they'll be all "Konichiwa!" to which I smile and respond "No,…

the temples at angkor were so much more than i had anticipated... enormous in scale but with incredibly fine detail . there were places that were absolutely tranquil, still, almost absorbing sound. i was surrounded by magic every day it became like visiting old friends, certain faces, carvings.

Today was our last day in the village. As much as I'm not an emo-nemo-cry-baby person, I was feeling a tad sad about leaving the village (even though I was dying to go to Siem Reap and Bangkok after). We ended off our projects in the school by having an outdoor movie screening in the scho…

Oh good bejeebles loord I almost died (again) today! Jear and I were almost burnt alive! Oh good bejeebles... it was a bit crazy!As we were making our way back to our last stop in our very well planned and researched city tour, our tuk-tuk just suddenly burst into flames after super mega overheatin…

Rikh picked me up at 4:30, and apologized for being a bit late. We had to hurry to Angkor Wat, to witness the sun rise just behind the majestic structure. It was getting crowded already, photographers lined the pond area with their tripods, all ready to capture the first light. As we all watched th…

On the bus to Cambodia. Aim of the day? To try and get a visa for as close as possible to $20 (the official fee) and avoid being cheated by the Poipet border control officials. Once that is out of the way, grab a taxi to Siem Reap. After 6 hours on the bus from Thailand, we hopped on a pick-up ta…