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Most Cambodians consider themselves to be Khmers, whose Angkor Empire extended over much of Southeast Asia and reached its zenith between the 10th and 13th centuries. Subsequently, attacks by the Thai and Cham (from present-day Vietnam) weakened the ... [read more]
Most Cambodians consider themselves to be Khmers, whose Angkor Empire extended over much of Southeast Asia and reached its zenith between the 10th and 13th centuries. Subsequently, attacks by the Thai and Cham (from present-day Vietnam) weakened the ... [read more] Blog: Siem Reap and Angkor Wat
Date: July 3rd 2009
Siem Reap is a good few hundred kilometres from PP, so to get there we had to take - you guessed it - another bus. We used the same bus company we used from Saigon to PP, but the bus was a lot crappier and less comfortable - literal inches for the legs. The journey was long and bumpy, interspersed by a couple of stops at a local markets. We stopped at one where at one a local girl was walking arou ... read more
Date: July 3rd 2009
Siem Reap is a good few hundred kilometres from PP, so to get there we had to take - you guessed it - another bus. We used the same bus company we used from Saigon to PP, but the bus was a lot crappier and less comfortable - literal inches for the legs. The journey was long and bumpy, interspersed by a couple of stops at a local markets. We stopped at one where at one a local girl was walking arou ... read more
