Blogs from Angkor, North, Cambodia, Asia - page 87

Hello all, Now I know that I sent you all a blog only a few days ago, but since then I have been to Angkor Wat and have several photos you may or may not wish to see. Further more, I've been in a car crash.... At this point you should probably know that the said crash was in fact a collision between an electric bike (or more accuratly American Andy's electric bike) and a young ladies moto. Regretfully she clipped the back of the bike, where I was and wiped out. However, both myself and Andy were unhurt and apart from a slight graze and the expected shock she was as well. For those who may care a little more for Dylan or Liz than for me, no they where not involved and were not ... read more

so we followed them to the happy guesthouse in Siem Reap. we stayed there becuase it meant that we didn't even have to think to get there because it was all organised by our friends in pnom penh.Its not as nice as the one in pnom penh but it does provide free moto taxi service anywhere you wnat to go which is nice.. anyway the temples... theres a lot of them so prepare for an extravaganza of photos which will probably look all the same to you. they were awesome. we bought a 3 day pass and for the 1st day we did the small circuit and then on the 2nd day we did the big circuit.On the third day we got up to see the sunsrise, but were to tired after that to do anything ... read more

Hello All!! And so we left Mumbai and India behind and headed on our jet plane for Bangkok. We only spent one full day there before we left for Cambodia and we go back in a couple of weeks so I won't go into any detail as to what we did - just visited the Royal Palace Complex and a couple of Wats (Buddhist Temples) and I'll load a few snaps up of Bangkok we've been there another day or two. So we left Bangkok really early in the morning so that we'd avoid queues at the border with Cambodia which we sailed through with no problems. For some reason I expected things to be completely different on the other side of the border but of course they weren't!. We arrived at Siem Reap fairly early ... read more

I’ve never been anywhere that I legitimately thought that a poisonous dart would be shot out of the mouth of a statue if I stepped on the wrong stone. This all changed the moment I stepped into the ruins of Beng Mea Lea fifty five kilometers southeast of the main temples of Angkor Wat. Its funny how most people are so completely enamored with the main temples of Angkor, the temples that have the size or the temples that have the charm of having been taken apart and restored to their original splendor. Not me. I shouldn’t say that these monuments were unimpressive in my eyes, but rather I was looking for something more mystifying, more taken by the jungle. The Temple Of Ta Prohm, which was featured in one of the poorly constructed Tomb Raider ... read more

Made the bus trip up from Pnom Penh to Siem Reap, the jumping off point of touring Angkor Wat, and once again, the bus ride was interesting. This time merely Cambodian music videos and comedy shows, which isn't bad, but at full volume for 7 hours, it becomes a bit much. Exiting the bus also proved a challenge as all the westerners were greeted by about 50 touts, all screaming (literally) "come to my guest house, cheap," while jabbing flyers at you. At one point, I stopped to shove some books into my pack, I literally had to push signs for guest houses out of the way to put things into my pack. The only thing I could do was laugh at the absurdity of the situation, it was quickly sorted out and I was off ... read more