SamODell

On our Tuesday off from work me and Tina visited a Dinosaur park in a nearby city called Changzhou. The park was quite big with some model dinosaurs as well as a museum with some dinosaur bones, there were some rides like small roller-coasters and some shows, 4D movie and Bird, Elephant and other shows. The weather was very good, warm and sunny.... Price of the park was 160rmb per person... read more

Today I arrived in Singapore in the morning, I was meeting my brother Oliver the next day so he said I should stay in the same hotel he had booked for us for the next day it was quite difficult to check in as I needed to pay a deposit which was more than I had, even my full days withdrawal limit from my bank card would not cover it so i had to contact Oliver and have him fax his credit card over to the hotel...thankfully it was only 3am in the UK so he was still at work. After checking in I took a walk and found there was an open top tour bus i could take around the city, generally the city looks very clean and modern although there are some very nice ... read more

Today I took the plane from Siem Reap to Kuala Lumpur, it was kind of annoying as my bag weight was 25kg the limit was 15kg so i had to transfer some things from my checked in bag to my hand luggage, who would choose to fly eh? Once I was in Kuala Lumpur I took a wonder around the town alittle bit, I was in China town so was able to get some nice cheapish food. After that I took a walk to a large observation tower which is in the middle of park in the center of the town…it is the 4th largest Communication towers in the world behind Canada's CN Tower(Visited), Moscow's Ostankino Tower and The Pearl TV Tower in Shanghai (Visited) if only I had realised the one in Moscow was so ... read more

Today I went to see the killing fields which is a momorial area to the people who Pol Pot (the former Cambodian leader) had killed...there is a large monument to the dead, it is built on the former area of some of the death camps.... read more

Today I met up with Murt and her friend in the morning, we first went to visit a floating village which is a village full of houseboats on a lake about 10km outside of siem reap it is quite an interesting place and to me it seems strange that people would choose to live there. We went for dinner in a western style restaurant which I think was a very special thing for the girls. Neither of the girls really knows how to read English and the menu was only in English…Murt says her friend cannot even read Cambodian. Whilst eating I realized neither of them used knives and forks or chopsticks at home as they were both struggling with these strangely advanced tools. In the afternoon we went to a market in the town, which ... read more