Blogs from Siem Reap, North, Cambodia, Asia - page 192

so we have just spent the last couple of days looking at temples... wow, and boy are there alot of temples at Angkor Wat... you might be under the impression that Angkor Wat, is just that one, massive, amazing temple... and yes it is, but there are so many more around Angkor. Anyway, after 2 full days of looking at them, we were pretty templed out! But impressed... so we have added a few photos for your viewing pleasure. We went to the temple where Tomb Raider (Angelina Jollie loves Cambodia hey)...was filmed, so jess and i ran around pretending to be her, ducking here and there, running in and out... so cool. We then spent a day playing at the Siem Reap Markets, practicing our bargaining skills and doing pretty good we thought. jess brought ... read more

Hi! Arriving in Siem Reap was very annoying. Taking a 5USD bus was ok until we reached Siem Reap. We thought something is wrong, when they told us free tuktuk to our hostel. Anyway, we took it. After 1 km, in the middle of nowhere, he stopped and sad in a very angry tone. "I need work tomorrow. For 15 dollar i will be your driver". It ended up in bad words, we called him a liar, he said "get out, i am no liar". Finally we gave him 1 dollar and said we never want to see him again. After that, our pre-booked hostel sent us to another place, as the "were full". The other place was full of mosquitos and by far not as good as the first. Another quarrel. we left. finally, WE ... read more

Hallo nach Deutschland. Uns gehts weiterhin gut und wir haben gehoert, dass auch ihr mit sommerlichen Temperaturen zu kaempfen habt ... An dieser Stelle uebrigens ein grosses Dankeschoen an all die Nachrichten, die wir ueber diese Seite erhalten. Wir schreiben euch gerade aus Siem Reap (im Norden von Kambodscha, beim See Tonle Sap und der Tempelanlage Angkor Wat). Und es ist wieder mal viel passiert: Aber erst einmal der Reihe nach. Wie geplant sind wir nach dem letzten Blog von Phnom Penh in die Schule von Sorya.org gefahren. Kurz zusammengefasst: ein kleines Dorf, ausserhalb, wie man es sich vorstellt: ca. 100 Familien, viele (frei herumlaufende) Kuehe, Schweine und Huehner (Haehne kraehen ab 04.00 morgens ... danke dafuer...) und ueberall asiatische Freundlichkeit. Bei einem Spaziergang durchs Dorf fuehlt man sich fast wie ein Promi, alle rufen 'Hello, ... read more

Hi there and a happy belated new year to you all! It's been a busy couple of weeks since my last update so I will just get cracking on... We arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on the eve of New Years Eve about 2 hours late which is fairly unusual as we have been lucky so far and generally have arrived at our destinations early or on time. In the usual tradition we plonked ourselves in a cafe and whilst two looked after the bags, two went on the search for our accomodation and feeling excited to be in the city I volunteered for this task....... what a silly girl! Due to it being New Year everysingle guest house was fully booked (obviously every other backpacker had the intellignece to think ahead and book somewhere ... read more

The last few weeks I've been pretty busy travelling through south Vietnam and Cambodia. Haven't had a lot of time to keep this blog updated, but hopefully now I can backtrack a bit and get some pictures uploaded. Unfortunately, despite not having much time to upload pictures I decided that today would be a great day to take over 300!! So I've tried to sort the wheat from the chaff and only upload a handful of pictures from today. Someone worked out that I must have been snapping at least one picture a minute at the rate I was going. Obviously many were deleted right after snapping, so I probably took nearer 400 in total, upping my already impressive rate. That would explain why I wasn't in awe of the size of the temples I saw ... read more