Blogs from Angkor, North, Cambodia, Asia - page 14

This time round I elected to make use of the free sunset option with my Angkor pass (purchase your pass after 4:45pm and you are alowed into the park for free to watch the sunset) and pootled off to Angkor Wat to enjoy it relatively crowd free (although it was still anoyingly busy - didn't they know they were meant to be clambering up Phnom Bahkeng for sunset?) Still, managed to amble around soaking up the ambiance, in spite of the inconsiderates around me. Particular favourites are the amazing colours of the stones (alas my camera let me down, for whilst it has captured an essence of the beauty it failed to get anywhere near the truth if the matter), and also the stunning views framed by the many doorways (again camera just couldn't read my ... read more

What better way to shake off the horrors of the S-21 than by visiting one humanities greatest achievements? So it was that I headed off to the city of Siem Reap to go temple hunting. Arriving there I got caught up in a bit of a scam. Guy next to me on the bus had been recommended by his hotel in PP to go to their ‘sister’ hotel in SR and they would be picking him up from the bus stop. So I got in and headed off with him. Amazingly - their sister hotel was ‘full’ for the night, but don’t worry - they knew another place that might have a room left… For about 4 times the price. Ah, ok, so we’ll just get out and look then, thanks for the lift. Oh no, ... read more

Ok - we left Thailand... I think this place is cursed - danny and his "food poising"- i was so ill I even had to pass on shopping!!!! the only hi-light was watching harry potter on tv! Can you beleive Danny shopped without me - i knew i could mould him into a new man..not! anyway - i managed to get on the bus to cambodia - this shoudl have been relatively simple bus, border, bus- well so we thought!!!! first the bus journey was awful - there was an american guy on it who was paralysed and reaked of urine - totally minging and then we got scammed .the bus has to stop before teh border adn there are tuk tuks to take you to the border - so we duly got on teh tuk ... read more

Rany picked us up this morning at 5 am and we headed to Angkor Wat and took our places in front of its lagoon inside and waited for about an hour before the sun rose at about 6:20. By 7:00 we were at the next temple. The second was pretty neat because it was symmetrical with four small square ponds on each side of a larger square pond which had a building in the center. The third one was small and there really was only one thing to see there: the tree that grew over the back entrance. Next we went to Mebon temple and then the Pre Rup temple. These last two were nice and I enjoyed exploring them, though I think my favorite is still Ta Prohm with all the trees. We finished at ... read more

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