Blogs from Central, Cambodia, Asia - page 4

Arrived in Cambodia! Ok, I admit it ... almost ended up in the wrong country! Forgot that there was touchdown in Da Nang, Vietnam - on looking out of the window I thought that the landscape was looking a lot less green than I was expecting (in fact it was decidedly brown ... and raining!) and having woken from my slumber and being a little more than dazed and not remembering that Da Nang was not the name of the airport in Siem Reap I got off the plane with a bunch of others! It wasn't until I'd completed the visa paperwork that I noticed that the silly officials had given me one entitled Vietnam instead of Cambodia .... then of course it slowly dawned on me. Hey, if I didn't have a blonde moment from ... read more

Kampong Thom to Seam Reap Sunday morning and we can have a lie in? No the funeral started again this morning at 5.30 and we can hear the lamenting voice of a woman singing out loud and clear, it makes you realise you are in a foreign country. After this came the gutterall tones of a man, it seemed like we were in Morocco and were being called to prayer. The religion here however is Buddhism and the funeral continues. Next we hear the cockerels and then the ducks and birds and figure we might as well join in. Quite surreal, singing on a Sunday morning with the light shining through pinpoint holes in the roof so that it looks like stars however we soon gave up as we didn't know the words.Breakfast overlooking the pool ... read more

I dag var dagen kommet for cruise på Mekong River. Vi startet dagen med avreise fra hotellet kl. 11:30, for å komme til båten måtte vi først lide oss gjennom en busstur på 4,5 timer.. Kjedelig! Det var et par stopper underveis, først en kjøpe drikke/tissepause og deretter en liten stopp på en gummiplantasje. På bussen snakket guiden om at det gjester fra Australia, England, Norge og Sverige. Jøss er det svensker her også sa Michael… Da måtte jeg svare som sant var at det nok mest sannsynlig var han det var snakk om..Michael er Svensk og innehar et Svensk pass… Og det stemte Svensken er Michael!! Vi kom oss endelig frem til vårt nye ”hjem”. Kom om bord og hadde fått oppgradert rom til øverste dekk . Til vår store forundring var vår bagasje allerede ... read more

HE SAID... We woke at 6.30am and headed down to breakfast at 7am. I had no appetite, but I managed a small bowl of muesli and a glass of (very) sweet fruit juice. After a final check of our packs, we jumped into our minibus at 9.30am and left Siem Reap for Sambor Prei Kuk, where we were to be accommodated with a nearby local family. We arrived in Kompong Thom (which sits approximately halfway between Siem Reap and Phnom Penh) at 12.30pm. We stopped at a great roadside restaurant for lunch which had five small wooden platforms (each with two hammocks, a table and a straw roof) jutting into the Stung Sen River. It was an ideal place to relax and unwind with a quick meal. I wasn’t hungry, so Ren opted for ginger and ... read more