 | Wat a high!
2005-03-09, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: arafel | | Despite me only grudgingly adding Angkor to my itinerary, I have to say that it's been the absolute highlight of my trip. Completely blew my mind. What a thrill! Though, I admit, I was completely 'wat... |
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 | Sunset on Angkor Wat
2005-02-05, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: seta76 | | Angkor Wat and the other temples surrounding it are the most amazing thing I have ever seen. When the Khmer Empire created them, they knew what they were doing. The temples are both Buddhist and Hin... |
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 | Crossing the border to the wild west
2004-10-29, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: craisen | | A 4am wake up and a taxi ride to the bus terminal, we bought our bus ticket to Aranya Prathet. The last town before the Cambodia boarder. After getting on the bus at 6.30am..which should have left at ... |
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 | Angkor Wat & Other Temples
2004-10-05, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: wts | | When the bus stops at Siem Reap there is a horde of tuk tuk drivers and motorbikes asking only 500riel for a ride to town. It is so cheap because they want you to book them for the days you are going ... |
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 | The Angkor Temples marathon
2004-08-27, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: Alex_RTW | | The flight from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap was no more hair-raising than any of the other short hops we’d taken so far in the trip - it only seemed that way because it appeared as though Presidential Air... |
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 | Landmine museum & Temples
2004-06-16, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: rachael | | Now we’ve had our three days at Angkor Wat and it was great. The temples were beautiful and some of the carvings were just unbelievable! I won’t bore you with the details because you will all have to... |
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 | Siem Reap / Temples of Angkor
2003-12-07, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: philstone | | After the journey from Bangkok the day before neither Margarita,
Francesca or myself could do an early morning for the temples, so we
decided to get up and have a long breakfast before catchin... |
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 | Bangkok to Siem Reap / The Dust Trail
2003-11-23, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: philstone | | Bangkok to Siem Reap
I got up at 5.30am, after another sleepless night thanks to the people in the room opposite,
in order to get ready for catching the 6.30 bus to Siem Reap. Luckily I was be... |
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 | Temples n that
2003-07-08, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: shatner | | 8th July
The bus ride out of Bangkok was uneventful, loaded up with people heading to Cambodia or just making the trip to get their visa re-newed. We made good time and reached the border by about ... |
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 | Amazing Temples
2003-04-20, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: clarets | | We arrived late in the day at Siem Reap after a nice 5 hour cruise up the river on a luxurious air-con boat which was showing The Scorpian King as entertainment. Needless to say we spent the journey s... |
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 | Angkor Wat and the Temples of Angkor
2003-02-19, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: cspeck | | I spent the next three days visiting the temples of Angkor. These temples were all built around a thousand years ago and the detail and immenseness of some of them is mind boggling. They are all mad... |
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 | angkor to phnom penh
2002-01-07, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: lomotravel | | angkor was one of the most amazing sights i have ever
seen in my life. no joke. this place was insanely
beautiful. temples scattered over a HUGE area, we
rented motorbikes and drove around, some of... |
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 | Into the Heart of Darkness
2002-12-09, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: fatseas | | 1 Dec 2002 Saigon to Svay Rieng, Cambodia 110km
Having being whisked to the border town of Moc Bai by a surly
Vietnamese bus driver, our last taste of Viet hospitality was to be
ripped off ... |
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 | From Thailand To Cambodia
2002-08-28, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: temppu_ | | From BKK to Siem Riep by Buss / PickUp. 100Bath / 350km / 16 hours. The "roads" in Cambodia is not the best average speed 20km/h. =) |
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 | Good News!
2002-05-22, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: oncearound | | Hello from Cambodia!
Good news via e-mail today! I (Sarah) was accepted to the University of York's graduate program! Hooray! The program is a one-year Master's Degree in Post-War Recovery Manag... |
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 | Slow Boat to...
2002-05-20, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: oncearound | | Hello from Siem Reap!
We are FINALLY here! After a "speed" boat trip of seven and one half hours, we straggled into Siem Reap. Our boat was loaded with quite a few people who recently left Bangko... |
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 | Ooooeuch!
2002-01-01, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: nsuffield | | oooooeuch!
No more beer and certainly no more steep temples, thankyouverymuch.
Stayed to see one last sunset at Angkor Wat while some young local kids came to jump in the lake and harvest the l... |
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 | This dollar note is a bit sweaty!
2001-12-31, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: nsuffield | | Up ridiculously early ... almost illegally so (4.45am) ... to see the sun rise over Angkor Wat. We walked along the main parade in the darkness with the full moon illuminating the dew on grass meadows... |
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 | Tomb Raiders and funny knees
2001-12-30, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: nsuffield | | Took our tour of the temples around Angkor Wat ... well the first day anyway ... it is rather large. The Bayon, Baphuon, Phimeanaks and lots more. But of course the most historically important has to ... |
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 | Is it meant to make that noise?
2001-12-29, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: nsuffield | | Took a taxi to Siem Reap as no buses were running to there any more ... something about some of the bridges have broken and others won't take the weight ... gulp!
The countryside zipped by. Palm t... |
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 | It's mine, all mine
2002-03-26, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: dan | | Blink blink. Sweated my way into Cambodia a couple of days ago, doing the dance of the border crossing for oooh about the 3 billionth time, along with a shedload of other steaming farangs. Found mysel... |
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 | Phew.. that was close...
2001-11-26, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: cpeely | | Looks like no more Kareoke for us.. the other night in Phenon Penh was the last not only for us, but the rest of Cambodia...
23 November '01
Nightspots Closed Down
Cambodian Prime Minister H... |
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| Back to Thailand Tomorrow...
2001-11-26, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: cpeely | | Yesterday... I finally managed to break my circle of inactivity with a 1 hour swim in an immaculate pool... all for the princely sum of 5 dollars. I felt a little like scum, in my old board shorts, s... |
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| Extra Happy....
2001-11-23, Siem Reap, Cambodia. By: cpeely | | As far as learning goes.. people fall into many categories, but for arguments sake lets define 2. Firstly...those who learn by being told information and Secondly those who learn from experience or t... |
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