13-17/12
Inaspettatamente il viaggio e’ tuttosommato decente, arriviamo e abbiamo gia’ un tuk tuk che ci aspetta per portarci in un Hotel prentato in precedenza, Hotel centrale, pulito e carino, per fortuna!
40$ il prezzo del biglietto per tre giorni per entrare a vedere le rovine di Angkor Wat, una vera meraviglia del passato, uno spettacolo. Un Read More »
Tempel und ein Dollar
Siem Reap bedeutet wörtlich ‚Ort der Niederlage der Siamesen’ und bezieht sich auf einen Sieg der Khmer über das Heer des Thai-Königreiches im 17. Jahrhundert. Bekannt ist sie vor allem als die der Tempelanlage Angkor Wat nächstgelegene Stadt, in der die meisten Besucher während ihres Aufenthaltes naechtigen. Heute so touristisch, daß es Read More »
Photos STILL won’t go in the right order! I have never had problems with the photos on this site before and this trip they are driving me crazy!
I expected to wake up more sore this morning than I did following the hike yesterday. Today is our last full day in Cambodia and we are actually Read More »
Getting in to Cambodia meant a long bus journey from Bangkok to the border of Cambodia. Here we had to get out of the bus and formally leave Thailand by having our visa stamped. Next we had to walk over a bridge in a place between Thailand and Cambodia known as ‘No-man’s Land’ – I Read More »
We booked an all in deal from Bangkok to Siem Reap for our first land border crossing of the trip as we were slightly anxious about it, especially as we’d heard a few stories of petty corruption on the Cambodia side and because we’d heard of people getting huge amounts of hassle once in Cambodia Read More »
Well we decided to make use of the free offer of bicycles that our hotel booking included. The kids were a little bit hesitant about going on a bike without a helmet but when explained that it wasn’t against the law here – they eagerly climbed on. Zara sat sidesaddle on the back of Tim’s Read More »
So we began our temple tour with what they call the “Grand Tour”. All in all we saw 5 different temples and it took us from 08:30 til 14:00.
Banteay Kdei – built in late 12-13 century, in some respects it is a smaller version of Ta Prohm (where Angelina did her stuff).
Pre Rup – built Read More »
Surprisingly having been booked out the previous night – we were lucky enough to be the only ones tonight and therefore had our own private viewing, which the kids thought was pretty special.
“Lakhoen Sbeks” (as known in Khmer) was placed on the UNESCO’s World Heritage list as an abstract art since 2000. The ancient art Read More »
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 »
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 »
