Siem Reap Travel Blogs - Page 5

After several days in Phnom Penh I decided that it was time to continue my travels and head on towards Siem Reap and the Temples of Angkor. So for about $5 I got a bus which had already decided to leave before I got there, lucky traffic was heavy so the bus was only crawling along as i boarded. I f…

i was wrong!!. with temperature approximately 25 degree celcius, and well kept rain forest jungle along the road, this place is a quiet comfortable place to visit or even to live in.

There is something in Siem Reap that I can't understand and explain. There is this feeling that is so deep that only in Siem Reap surfaced. Maybe it is because of the irony that you can see in Cambodia in general. Big temples and poverty live side by side. Religion and prostitution. History and sic…

The last day was quite relaxing.  We had nothing to do all day and our flight wasn't until 8pm.  So we wandered around town, sat by the pool, and did a whole lot of nothing.  This was a really great trip and I'm glad we went.  I was surprised after living in rural Thailand and s…

What an amazing country this is! The friendliest people imaginable, and all that despite their ridiculously horrific recent history. The hightlight of this trip was Siem Reap. I felt like Indiana Jones getting picked up at the station by great local kid from the guesthouse who looked after me for a few days and took me to see the temples. Steeped in more history and culture than you could imagine, its a marvel to look at the temples and wonder what went on around them in centuries past.

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…

I took my time to get up this morning but eventually I climb the step concrete steps to the guest house restaurant for a spot of breakfast. I felt a coffee was in order to wake me up as I was still feeling a little sleepy. I spent early afternoon shopping for a couple of cheap t-shirts from the lo…

I went to Cambodia for the first time for 11 days. I travelled from Kuala Lumpur to Siem Reap by AirAsia.

 There have been plenty of early starts so far on this particular part of the trip. The hostels and hotels in Asia have a nasty little habit of lying to you about the time your bus pick-up is due to depart, in the hope that you will have breakfast with them while you are waiting for your suppo…

Siem Reap attracts tourists young and old from the far reaches of the globe to marvel over the the endless supply of forgotten ancient temples including the world's largest religious building ever constructed, Angkor Wat.  The competition is fierce, sometimes even primal, for the influx of…

Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and beyond! We follow the heavy trailed backpackers path as well as making some new ones...!

one of the places on this planet that I had wanted to visit since my childhood was the temple complex at Angkor, Cambodia. I had read about its re-discovery by French archaeologists in the 1950's and seen pictures of ficus trees growing through walls of bas reliefs topped by towers decorated by car…

Nachts hat es ordentlich gewittert, draußen sowie ich in meinem Verdauungssystem. In der Annahme, in Angkor Wat gäbe es ohnehin genügend Toiletten, bin ich also aufgestanden und war um fünf Uhr bereit, abgeholt zu werden. Der Tuk-Tuk-Fahrer, der mich hätte abholen sollen, kam aber nicht - also…

After all that walking we were both tired so we got some rest.  At night, we are walking down the street with most of the restaurants and we spot this one restaurant offering Kangaroo, Ostrich and Snake meat, and I was so onboard and knew where we were going to have dinner tonight!!! We si…

      This morning on my way to the LCCT airport (KL), I pulled such a Susan moment, I realised half way that I left my wallet at home. Uncle Anthony could not make a u turn, thus we had to stop at a rest stop and make an emergency to my folks. For some reason, I think my d…