Monthly Archives: November 2011
Siem Reap and Phnom Penh for the last time
Unfortunately this was to be the last full day of our adventure through Vietnam and Cambodia and although we were ready to move on from Vietnam, we were far from ready to leave Cambodia. This friendly, stunning nation had only been our home for just over a week but I’d certainly fallen in love with [...]
Temples (There are quite a lot around here)
Manil was due to collect us from the hotel at 0700 (we’d run into him at the Night Markets the previous evening) so we had to set the alarm for an 0600 start. Breakfast was bacon omelette and breads, as was now the norm. Manil was a little late getting to the hotel and begged [...]
In and Around Siem Reap
I managed to sleep right through the night, waking only a few times with no idea what time it was, before finally getting up around 0700. I was still feeling a little jaded but nowhere near as bad as I’d been feeling the day before. Jo had postponed our early morning tuk tuk arrangement with [...]
Temple. Fatigue.
Apparently there really is such a thing as temple fatigue. The average length of stay in Siem Reap is only two and a half days – not really long enough to see everything properly. Temple Fatigue occurs when you become literally templed out – you’ve just seen too many temples. I had both on this [...]
Almost visiting Angkor Wat
We finally arrived at Siem Reap at 0100. The five to six hour bus trip that we’d paid for lasted 7 1/2 hours… that’s good buying I guess. A tuk tuk driver picked us up as we were told but he wasn’t 100% sure where our hotel – The Moon Boutique Hotel was located. We [...]
Village Kids
Rhonda and Kathy, the Australians that bailed us out on the Vietnam/Cambodia border had recommended a pretty special trip that departed from town each Sunday and we’d decided to stay on in Phnom Penh for most of the day to make sure we could get a spot on the minibus. A local expat group called [...]
A Tragic Recent History
Breakfast at the Landscape Hotel was a huge buffet of mixed Khmer and Western foods. Needless to say we both went with the bacon toasted sandwiches. The plan for the day was to rent a motorbike and take it to see Tuol Sleng and The Killing Fields… two memorials to the victims of the Khmer [...]
Holidays in Cambodia
Breakfast at the hotel was awful and Jo had to go to the counter to ask for our change that seemed to have been forgotten about. We were loaded onto another wooden tourist boat and went less than a kilometre before we stopped at a tin house, one of the hundreds that was floating alongside [...]
Mekong Delta
This was to be our last full day in Vietnam and whilst we had enjoyed most of the three weeks or so, we were ready to move on. The return to the traffic, smog and noise of Ho Chi Minh City convinced me it was time to go. Breakfast at the hotel was a basic [...]
Easy Ridin’ Dalat Style
Son, our potential Easy Rider tour guide was due to collect us at 0730 so we were up early on the off chance he showed up. We packed, checked out and I went out to make sure our motorbike hadn’t disappeared overnight. It was still sitting where we left it and furthermore still had the [...]
