Hi, yes that fated day has arrived...Monday, the first day back at work. Holiday is over, just a memory, was it real? After looking through the over 900 photos I took while away, it was real and it was an adventure! But to catch everyone up with the detail.... The flight to Hong Kong was uneventful as you normally wish for on a flight. We got our baggage sorted out, more on the way home than we had on the way out, and found our bus to Kowloon....Hong Kong has changed a lot in the long time since I was there [View Full Entry]

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Hi all! I tried to post this morning but the ínternet' went down...in the airport now and honestly not ready to go home. I guess it is better to leave when you are not ready than cannot wait to leave at all...so many things to say about Cambodia and this adventure...of all the places in Asia I have been, my heart has been taken...the people, the country, the kids, the struggle, those who are here to help...everything....more than I could have ever imagined...this is the only place I have ever been where I really feel each and everyone one of us [View Full Entry]

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Hi there! The trip to the country to visit with Sophea's 'parents was amazing, even though I did not get to drive the tractor in the rice fields! Maybe next time....All of the kids and Lysa made the afternoon a perfect day...the trip out was not too bad and we had weather entertainment on the way home! We not had real rain since arriving in Cambodia but last night made up for it....the roads flooded for a little while and the rain was so hard we had to pull over...all good fun and laughter..... This morning was a trip to S-21, [View Full Entry]

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Well day two is in Phnom Penn and to be honest it is much better than we could have imagined. Spending time with Sophea and Lysa and their friends has been wonderful to say the least! We had dinner on Monday night at a friend's restaurant who also sponsors a school benefiting 28 kids who's parents are either not alive or cannot afford to send them to school. Proceeds from the restaurant and an amazing cookie shop are the main sources of income for the kids education...on Monday we were lucky enough to see the kids perform traditional Khmer dances! They [View Full Entry]

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Well we survived the taxi trip from Siem Reap to Phnom Penn but honestly I am not sure how! Tomorrow must be a day to visit the lucky buddah. That can be the only explaination...it was not just a white knuckle ride but an OMG duck so you did not actually see the 3 cars trying to pass whilst 2 more cars are blocking the road and cows, dogs, bicycles everywhere! I will stick with the tuk tuk! Speaking of which we had to say goodbye to Bunn our driver of several days and the staff at the Ivy....all wonderful peope. [View Full Entry]

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just another day in paradise, really I am not sure I want to leave Siem Reap! The folks at the Ivy said I could clean the rooms and get tourists to say and that would pay for my room! So tempted!! The tuk tuk ride today should have been a four wheeler ride! It was funny, we even had to dig the tuk tuk out of a sand pit on the road to the village! So after we drove as far as we could, the road basically ends in the flood plains of the Tonle Sap during the raining season...we hired [View Full Entry]

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Hello! Today was honestly a tuk tuk free day! Relazed this morning and then headed to Le Tigre de Papier to try our hand at Khmer cooking. What a fun time! Everyone (6 people in total - a couple from Sydney, an American doctor working at the children's hospital and a woman from Turkey) got to choose a starter and then a main course. My two favorites are green mango salad and a traditional Khmer dish called Amok (Tamarind, galangal, basil and lemon grass based). Rae cooked up bananna flower salad and fried noodles...We started off with a trip in the [View Full Entry]

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It seems funny how everything works. It has only been a week but it seems like so much longer that we've been away...today was amazing and the tuk tuk ride was completely worth the 'shower' at the end of the hike...still needed a shower to wash off the red dirt that caked on everything but that is a small price to pay... Today was a day of 'signs' and things to ponder. The signs can speak for themselves (assuming I can get the pics loaded) but the things to ponder, well here there are...as well as random road side goings on... [View Full Entry]

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What a day! I was not sure what to expect with the adventure today. The temples from yesterday were amazing and I was not sure how Angkor could be so much more....How wrong I was! Before that though, I have to say that Ta Prohm was straight out of Tomb Raider and was so amazing I kept thinking it was not real...it is amazing what the jungle had done and the power of a banyon tree...even one sever feet around and more than 75 feet tall...more I am sure.... We had great luck this morning and had Ta Prohm to ourselves [View Full Entry]

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I am not really sure what to say about today...first a clarification...a driver does not necessarily mean also a car...it could mean a tuk tuk...yes today was another tuk tuk day but this one was wonderful and actually much better than having a car...The weather has been perfect with some clouds, 30+ and a tuk tuk breeze to cool you off after exploring could not have been better planned....Seven temples in all today and honestly, they were all different in so many ways....Finally we just had to call it a day or start on the sites for tomorrow....Tomorrow is another early [View Full Entry]

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