April 10 - 15, 2006 -- Siem Reap and the Temples at Angkor Written April 24, 2006 from our hotel in Ho Chi Minh City Having completed our often harrowing ride from Poipet and the border to Siem Reap we were relieved to find our hotel, Villa Siem Reap. We didn’t find it right away, mind you. We stumbled around in the heat for a few minutes before settling in to have a Coke, ask directions to no avail, and then stumble around until getting directions from a chef named Raymond (a Chinese man married to a Vietnamese woman living in Siem Reap, suspicious for his friendliness and excellent English). Villa Siem Reap is a lovely new guest house near the center of town that appears to be a part of a boom in the city.
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