After a long boat trip from Battambang to Siem Reap we booked into a posh hotel with a lovely swimming pool :>:> as everywhere else was full LOL. Today was up early and many Angkor Temples including - Angkow Wat with it's icon three towers Ta Prehm, East Mebon, Sras Sang, Banteay Samre Pre Rup. Increadible temples!!

Our third full day in Cambodia proves to be quite the day... the plan was simple: 1. take a Cambodian cooking class in downtown siem reap 2. Mr. Lok takes us to Tonle Sap Lake for 90 minute boat ride around a floating village. 3. Mr. Lok returns and takes us to Phnom Bakeng, a hill temple in Angkor, to see sunset. 4. We get massages. Instead, wh...

I came into work over the weekend this weekend to fit in some extra hours. I regularly find myself nervously glancing at the calendar, watching the days, weeks, months slip by so quickly. I begin my two month 'working holiday' down in Malaysia on the 31st of this month, which is just around the corner. This morning over tea I glanced at the date...

Yes, the orphanage ! I have been volunteering in an orphanage for the past week and it is awesome, amazing, brilliant, fantastic, great. The trip from Bangkok to Siem Reap was an adventure on its own : A good 6 hours from Bangkok to Aranya Pathet in Thailand at the border of Cambodia, then 2 hours going through customs, bargaining your visa with...

To mix things up a bit in our blog, we thought we'd grade various aspects of Angkor Wat with commentary... - Bogus tuk tuk driver number one. D We'd give this guy an F, but he didn't rob us or kill us. Some of these guys bargain for a price, then decide that it's based on other contingencies such as them being your personal limo service for your...

Hi All, Havent wrote in this for a few days so got so much to say. Bangkok was so hot and lizzie wanted to find a pool to cool down, so the second night we randomly found a hotel with a swimming pool on the roof with noone in it. We used it without being asked any questions so were quite impressed with ourselves. The next day was well hot becaus...

I've got 3 months in SE Asia and I don't have any plans apart from which countries I want to visit. I couldn't decide on my next destination after Bangkok and it was a spur of the moment decision to go to Cambodia. I had just enough time to pack my bag before catching my bus. I've heard horror stories about the journey from Bangkok to Siem Reap,...

Today we ventured further afield to some more remote sites. Mr Bon drove us along smooth highways which soon turned into bumpy, dusty, crumbling tarmac. As we sat in the tuk tuk we watched everyday life go by. People were hard at work; men were fishing or labouring in the paddy fields, women cooked outside on huge metal pans heated by earth furn...

January 1st 2008 - Siem Reap After a peaceful, deep and partially beer induced sleep we stuff our collective dirty laundry into May's backpack and make a start on the day. With multiple missions to accomplish we set out with steely resolve on a hunting and gathering foray. Breakfast, laundry facilities, cash and making arrangements to visit the ...

I have a lay in as yesterday was a long day. Time to call Sam the volunteer co-ordinator and get out and see Siem Reap. Sam takes me around on the back of his moto which is kinda fun as I've not had much experience of bikes. Siem Reap is not as big as I expected, probably the size of Cirencester. It is much more developed than the places I had s...