Siem Reap Travel Blogs - Page 7

Some photos from the few days i spent in Siem Reap about a year ago.

25th - Bus ride to Siem ReapSpent the day riding on the bus to Siem Reap. Made a couple of pit stops and saw some interesting foods sold by local vendors.26th - Siem Reap1. Visited the temples at Angkor Thom and Ta Prohm in the morning2. After lunch, drove out to Tonle Sap Lake and took a boat ride…

This morning we drove out to the distant temples from Angkor. We started out with Kobal Spien, or the river of one thousand lingas. There was a long dirt road (full of pot-holes, water buffalo and kids) out to the forest, and then an hours hike through the forest to reach the river. The river ru…

I try not to live life with too many regrets as on the whole they’re pretty useless things, however I’m often taken by the notion that life would take on a whole new level of wonderfulness if I looked more like Lara Croft. Regret is perhaps the wrong the word because there’s not much I couldâ…

pictures from my trip to seim reap

Siem Reap was mainly to go and see the temples. The city itself isn't that interesting. The Foreign Correspondents Club wasn't as good as the one in Phnom Penh.Bayon was my favourite area in Angkor Thom complex. Then Angkor Wat - I was expecting to be WOWed by Angkor Wat, but I wasn't. It was still…

having 2 days of intense temple climbing in my knees i've seen it all and probably had enough temples for the rest of my life :)the angkor wat area is huge! on the first full day i did the big circuit and the next day i visited the more remote temples. as clearly visible on the pictures, it's a lot…

we boarded a bus from Siem Reap (Angkor Wat) and headed out for Phnom Penh. we would again pass through more poverty yet I can say that at least central and easter Cambodia seems a bit more prosperous as well as a bit more lush with crops and vegetation.it really made me wonder... why don't the peo…

Got to lie-in today til 4am. As previously arranged with Lat the taxi driver we got picked up at 5am to reach Angkor Wat for sunrise. I thought it was a bit daft going so early but as it turns out we weren’t alone. You pay US$20 to enter the area on a day pass, a 3 day pass is available but not a…

Not quite as good as the temples, but for a real life experience in Siem Reap it was amazing.  We took the tuk tuk 20 minutes or so outside the main city area to the edge of the lake, Tonle Sap.  Here there is a small dock where local fisherman sell their catch and various boats for …

To be honest , the thought of going on this weekend's trip to Cambodia (a war-torn, relatively undeveloped country) scared me just a little bit. We had heard horror stories of Malaria-carrying mosquitoes and active land mines. I'm sure Mom was thrilled! But in reality, Cambodia is a beautiful counr…

We had attempted to take the balloon ride near Angkor Wat yesterday but it had been closed due to high winds (there was no discernable wind at ground level but there you go ...) so we thought we would give it another try without any great expectation it would be operating today. After yester…

Wow, we can hardly believe that we've been gone two weeks already. The trip so far has been fun and vastly interesting. Too much so to recount all the details. But we'll do our best here to hit some of the highlights, good and bad. Decidedly bad highlight number one was going through security in …

We toured the ruins at Angkor for 3 solid days. There is so much to see that you could spend 2 weeks here and not see everything. Angkor Wat was my favorite but I think Amy likes Bayon the best. Most of the ruins are within a few kilometers of each other so we hired a tuk tuk for the 3 days to taxi…

Much better interaction with the locals here than in Phnom Penh--still a lot of tourists, just not the same type.  Jammed a good while with a couple of fellows out in front of a cybercafe--including a security guard who could actually play quite well...