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Asia » Cambodia
May 25th 2008

Published: October 6th 2008

We must be getting good as this travel lark - we entered Cambodia without having to bribe the immigration officials to stamp our passports as many travellers do, and even manged to haggle the money changers down to a decent rate. Riding away from the border post we entered a surreal world of high rise hotel casinos, neon signs, bars and expensive cars. Could this Las Vegas-like border town really ... Read Full Entry

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Erika Bird and Robin Searle

Banchory to the Bosphorous by Bike

We are Erika and Robin from Scotland and in April 2005 we quit our jobs and set off to cycle from Scotland to İstanbul. We reached İstanbul in October 2005 having discovered that cycling truly is the best way to travel and so decided to keep going beyond the Bosphorous...... We had never cycled any long distance before but had been wanting to travel for a long time and had finally saved enough and realised ıf we didn't set off now we never would. We decided cycling would be the best form of transport as we wanted to learn more about the countries and people we passed through at a s... full info

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Angkor Thom, south gate.

Head Case

Bayon Temple, Angkor Thom

Bayon, Angkor Thom.

Bayon Temple, Angkor Thom

Pyramid inside Angkor Thom

Angkor Thom

Big Footed Khmer

Rambling in the Ruins

Nothing Changed

Carved scenes in Angkor Thom depicting cock-fighting - still a popular 'sport' for gambling on in Cambodia today.

Pyramid Temple

Spot the tiny Erika for a sense of scale. Also the top of this was not the best rain shelter in the world, but since the ultra-steep stone steps had become waterfalls there wasn't much choice.

Roots of Time

Ta Prohm, one of the temples archaeologists deliberately didn't clear the jungle from.

Ta Prohm

Moss growing fat , Ta Prohm

Buy my flute

Buy my flute, Buy my flute, buy my flute. This guy followed us for nearly a kilometre keeping that up the entire time. We didn't buy his flute.

We no longer need guns

Which may be true, but methinks the government paints a better picture of Cambodia's economic development than reality would suggest.

Tree Temple

Buddha Tree

Peacock Dancers

Inside the famous Angkor Wat

The Famous Angkor Wat

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