Siem Reap Travel Blogs - Page 8

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

I wrote this on my personal blog last year. Decided to transfer it here to share it with fellow TravelBudds. Enjoy... ******************************************************************************************** Written on May 04, 2007 I just came back from my backpacking trip to Siem Reap, Cambo…

If Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ book, “Hundred Years of Solitude” is one of the required academic readings for humankind, without doubt, Cambodia is one of the must-visit places in one’s lifetime. Such claim is staggering – The experience and sensation one feels as he steps into the vastness o…

We had been warned of the journey by bus from Bangkok to Siem Reap.  We were told we would be in for quite an adventure and that we should bring a cushion for the bus trip in Cambodia.  While the roads in other areas of Cambodia are quite good, supposedly there is an airline who has a mon…

Start 24 september 2006 ends 6 oktober 2006

A flat landscape of green fields and water logged floodplains could be seen out of the window as we descended into Siem Reap. Occasionally we'd catch a glimpse of a settlement, but by and large the vista outside was one of countryside. The aircraft made a smooth landing and we taxied to the termina…

We're still in Siem Reap! We caught a 3 hour, $15 boat from Battambang to Siem Reap which eventually took 7 1/2 hours. At the port, the boat was swarmed with tuk-tuk drivers desperate for ouy $1 fare. It was incredibly, incredibly stressful, mostly because we we hot and tired and hungry and sick f…

My best trip . . .. . .

We left at 8am this morning, eschewing a sunrise start. We started first at Pre Rup, an unfinished temple that was abandoned following a bad omen. It was a slightly scary climb to the top, but after yesterdays practice scaling temples I was as sprightly and deft as an antelope, with the grace of a …

i visitted Malay-Viet Nam, Cambodia and Thailand. in this trip, i felt i have been to different world. especially in cambodia, I learned a lot! i wonder if there is any way i can help poor children in Cambodia... i would like to visit there again hopefully in this year. i have met so many nice people. i was helped a lot by people. now i love them!

Today was the first chance we had to sleep in. With no early morning transportation plans. No place to be except here. Nothing to see. With some fantastic thick cut toast and black coffee, it started out perfect.Walking along moist, hand in hand. Picking up supplies for the impending bus trip. Cros…

Temples of Angkor, Siem Reap

Ouais, Siem Reap, ça ne dit rien à personne, mais Angkor Wat, ça, j'espère, ça vous sonne une cloche.  J'avais 3 jours à perdre avant de commencer, et fallait quand même pas que je reste à la même place à faire du shopping (c'est à peu près la seule chose à faire ic…

Thailand, Lao, Vietnam & Cambodia

Relieved to set off at a normal hour, we went to one of the furthest away temples - Banteay Srei - to see a pink sandstone temple that was heavily under refurbishment, with bricks layed out all around like someone starting a jigsaw. Then it was back to the main collection of temples to see a c…