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Gemma Cakebread Joined: March 8th 2009
Logged in: March 13th 2009
Logged in: March 13th 2009
Travel Blog Posts
If you are visiting Cambodia, a trip to the temples of Angkor is a MUST!! A one day pass for foreign nationals costs $20 (in 2007). This is all the time I needed to see all the temples, though some people like to spend up to 5 days enjoying them. What we did was go to the temples at 5pm, the one day pass covers you from 5pm one day and the whole of the next day as you cannot spend too long there. This was enough time to enjoy Angkor Wat, the largest religious temple in the world and watch the sunset behind it. Also going at this time avoids the crowds so Id highly recommend it. The next day we left our guesthouse at 4am and climbed the Bakheng Hill inside the temple complex. ... read more
Phnom Penh market stall
Phnom Penh is a fairly busy place and certainly not clean by any means, but it is the poorest country in south east asia afterall! Lakeside is the backpackers haven. A side street from the main city next to the lake. I would recommend the Numebr 9 or Sister number 9 guesthouse. Sitting on the lake with very basic rooms but excellent common areas. A pool table, hammocks, tv with a variety of movies for your enjoyment, 24hr food and drink and the staff are pretty cool! Not to mention the lake that it sits on. Lakeside has plenty of tuk tuks, restaurants and bars. The Drunken Frog is a good bar, more so if you go up the stairs to the roof. Don't be fooled that you have to go downstairs for the loo, that ... read more
Having returned to Phnom Penh after a 4 week stay in the Cambodian forest, myself and some of the group I had met on the trip took a bus up to Siem Reap. It was a 6 hour journey on a rather pleasant air conditioned coach arranged by our guesthouse. When we got there we got some tuk tuks to take us to the guesthouse of our choice. Unfortunately they had no available rooms so we asked the drivers to take us to a cheap place not too far away from the centre. We stayed at the Bakong Lodge. Clean rooms with air conditioning with helpful staff who dropped the price for us when we were unsure of looking elsewhere. For food in Siem Reap I would definately recommend visiting The Butterflies Garden Restaurant. It's a ... read more
