Soooo, as I was saying, we booked a mini-bus from Koh Chang to Siem Reap for about $25 each. We thought that a reasonable amount considering the distance and border crossing. I had heard that the road in Cambodia was not paved and quite painful on the rear, but that’s what you gotta do when Read More »
We arrived in Phnom Phen to have tuk tuk and moto drivers attack us as we left the bus. Our attention was drawn to a slightly less harrasing tuk tuk driver with a distinctly australian accent, called Sam, who went on to become our regular driver. He took us to the backpacker area on Boeng Read More »
When we last updated, we were about to leave for the sunset over Angkor Wat, our first encounter with the temples. We got a taxi with our Dutch friends, Wacco (pronounced Varco) and Dim, and climbed a massive hill for about 15 minutes and found ourselves at the base of a temple, on the only Read More »
The next day Erik, Frank and Lou picked me up at 9am. Our first stop was to one of the gates of Angkor Thom which was pretty impressive. As we headed up to the gate, we had to cross a bridge that was on top of a moat. The bridge was flanked on either side Read More »
by Kerry So.. Cambodia was our last stop in mainland S.E. Asia. It seems like we’ve seen a lot and we have! Anyway, see our next blog for our general 6 month round up. Siem Reap & The Temples of Angkor After a 4 hour bus ride from Bangkok we walked into Cambodia from Thailand Read More »
Day 3…. Got up early today, as had to check out from hotel by 11am, plus we had booked our ticket to the airport for 11am, want to try and check out the bus times to Rayong again so this will give us enough time as don’t fly till 3.15pm. Had our first wander around Read More »
We woke up and drove out to the Angkor complex. First we went to Angkor Thom which was one of the biggest Khmer cities. We went to Bayon temple which was really cool. It had 54 towers with 4 huge faces on each tower. We walked in and went around into these corridors. Every wall Read More »
Our trip from bangkok to Siem reap went very smoothly compared to some of the horror stories we had read at talesofasia.com. This was probably due in part to the fact that we arranged all of our own travel instead of going with a packaged trip from Khaosan rd, which are supposedly riddled with scams. Read More »
First thing to note about the temples of Angkor is that there’s just so many. Before this trip we, like most of you I assume, had heard of the magnificent Angkor Wat, but we didn’t know of the literally hundreds of surrounding sites and ruins. With this in mind, and intending to save the best Read More »
We begin the day, once again in the trusty hands of Mr Na our tuk-tuk driver but now acting as quasi guide too having saved the $25 today, with sunrise at Angkor Wat. Big crowds here and we’re a little disappointed with the sunrise (it just got lighter) and in ourselves for yet again forgetting Read More »
