…….The World Without Borders
All of the posts under the "Cambodia" tag.
Bayon and Ta Prohm are two of the most famous temples in Angkor Wat. We went there as part of the Mini Tour together with the grand Angkor Wat itself.
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When I first arrived and walked around the temple of Bayon, I realized instantly that there was something about it that was uniquely different from the other temples in Angkor Wat. Read more →
Previously on my trip to Cambodia, I blogged about us doing the Grand Tour at the Angkor Wat temples. Of course, we had to spare the Mini Tour for the next day because we wanted to do what most people would do when they come to Siem Reap – to view the Angkor Wat (which is part of Mini Tour) at sunrise.
Riding on a Tuk Tuk at five in the morning, we knew instantly that we had made a HUGE mistake by coming to Siem Reap without a single piece of thick cloth and we now had to face the consequences. It was so smiting cold that none of us could even mutter a word without stuttering so everybody chose not to talk at all. Brrrrr! LOL
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People were already piling up when we arrived at the entrance to Angkor Wat. A cycling event was about to take off so there were more people than it would have been if there was no event going on at all. Read more →
We woke up on our first morning in Siem Reap with so much excitement. It would be the day when we’d finally get to see for ourselves some of the most famous historical buildings in the world, the Angkor Wat temples!
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Siem Reap had just recovered from a major flood so it was quite dusty. Although flood is quite common in Cambodia, the one that they just had was quite unusual and it had dragged on for months together with the one in Thailand.
At the heights of the flood crisis, a number of tourists had to be airlifted from the temples because all the exit roads were submerged in water.
We were lucky because we got there when the floods had already receded. The flood had done pretty much damage to the road especially those within the township area. There were damages and cracks here and there and much of the roads were covered in clay dust. Read more →