Blogs from Siem Reap, North, Cambodia, Asia - page 212

Well it's my last day in Cambodia, and I must say I am really going to miss the place! It's crazy, but the people are so friendly and the country is amazing! The weather here today is well hot, but it's probably been my best day so far! Visited the floating villages on Tonle Sap Lake, it’s amazing what they keep on the lake. I saw pigs kept in cages, a floating school with its own floating basketball court! They even cater for the western tourists by providing urinals! The smell on the lake is a bit funky, this is due to the number of people living on it combined with the fact that they cure all the fish here. So if you can imagine rotten fish combined with raw sewage, you’re pretty close to how ... read more

After escorting Steve back to Bangkok, I wanted to get out of town as fast as possible. The next morning I was on a bus bound for Cambodia. It was filled with a god crew of backpackers. The ride to the border was an easy 3 hours filled with travel stories and suggestions. The border crossing was long and tedious. I already had a Cambodian visa, but I still had to wait in a long line of people who had to apply for one of their own. Oh well, live and learn. Fortunately, a girl named Shawna who was seated next to me on the bus had heard about the dramatic change in road conditions once in Cambodia. Was she ever right! Shawna and I managed to rally two more passengers (Katrina and Erica) and we ... read more

Hello and welcome to the year 2644 (cool futuristic music playing in the background)..... Yes, in Laos where we rang in the new year it is in fact the year 2644, as they adhere to the Buddhist Era (BE) calendar date which began earlier than the Roman/Christian calendar we use. Funny, it feels a lot like 2006 to us. We hope everyone back home partied like it was 2599! When last we wrote we were in Luang Prabang, and since then we have been on the move, stopping only briefly in the Laos capital of Vientiane before making our way south into Cambodia. The bus trip from Luang Prabang to Vientiane was typically Lao --- that is, not a straight stretch of road to be seen for hundreds of kilometers through mountainous terrain. We did get ... read more

Grabed the afternoon bus from Phnom Penh up to Siem Reap (I decided to pass on the boat trip which I heard was long and costly). For some reason there were a lot of mozzy's on the bus so I spent the 6 hours killing them as they flew by my window. I arrived at Siem Reap as the sunwas setting and I grabbed a scooter ride to the Happy Guest house as recommended by Beatrice (from Sihanoukville). I did not know at the time there were two Happy Guest houses but oh well. After dropping of my stuff, I headed to town for some food. The city center was very busy and much more upscale then I had imagined with a few streets closed-off to cars. These streets housed lots of bars and restaurants with ... read more

13 - 16.12.2005 Sihanoukville Z Phnom Phenu sme sli expresnym busom po vcelku fajnovej ceste do jedineho morskeho pristavu v celej krajine - mesta Sihanoukville. Je to taktiez zatial jedine miesto v Kambodzi, kde sa pomaly zacal rozvijat primorsky turisticky ruch. Samotne mesto bolo dost nepekne, ale plaz Seredenpity Beach na ktoru sme dorazili bola celkom pohladna. Bolo na nej vedla seba zo 7 skvelych restauracii/guesthousov na sposob slovenskej Carovne (BB), alebo trebars Verne (BA) s perfektnou atmoskou, skvelymi jedlami a povacsinou europskymi majitelmi. Na drinky sme chodili napriklad do jedneho baru, ktory si prenajali 5-ti europania, ktori tam cely den kvasili a obcas aj obsluhovali. Ubytko sme mali perfektne vo vlastnom romantickom bambusovom bungalove s vyhladom na more. Bungalovy vlastnil jeden mlady britsky par.. Vseobecne sme stretavali dost europanov, ktori sem zja... read more