A strangely subdued team got together far too early in the morning for a trip out to supposedly the most beautiful of the temples – a pink sandstone creation. It turned out to be a very unphotogenic pile of rubble and we spent the time trying to wake up whilst comparing stories from the New [...]
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New Years Eve – Siem Reap, Cambodia
Spent the day wandering round the temples in the Angkor Wat complex.
Started off in Ta Prohm, the overgrown temple made famous by the Tomb Raider movies.
Moved on to the Bayon which is covered in faces of various rulers.
Finally we came to the highlight of the trip, Angkor Wat.
For New Years Eve we’d managed to get [...]
Spiders – Siem Reap, Cambodia
Today we had the drive from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap (which means Siam Defeated, in recognition of them stealing it from Thailand).
On the way we stopped at an ordinary looking truck stop where a lady sat out front selling from a bucket of deep fried spiders, crickets and other bugs. Having eaten crickets and [...]
Killing Fields and geckos – Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Breakfast was good, having found sausages, baked beans and HP Sauce for the first time in 3 weeks. Sat up on the roof terrace you could see out over the river and into a selection of nearly homes. I spent the morning eating franks and beans whilst trying to avoid watching a man scrub his [...]
Cambodia – Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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It took 4 forms, $25, 14 stamps and 2 hours queuing to get through Cambodian immigration and customs before we met our soppy new guide for the drive to the capital Phnom Penh.
On the drive on our guide pointed at a beautiful hotel and said we were over there. What he meant was [...]
