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Beautiful country side with majestic temples
(Nov 22 '05)
"Grand temples amongst a serene but developing country side"
Siem Reap
Kinn, Cam, and I took a 3 day package tour of Angkor. We landed into the Siem Reap airport. Our tour guide, Piseth, met us there. ...
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Tomb Raiding at Siem Reap
(Apr 04 '07)
Day 1 @ Siem Reap, Cambodia
Where's our Driver?Touchdown at 1145am. Immigration was a breeze because Malaysians did not require visa and on top of that, we did not check in any luggage. We were ...
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Cambodia, Siem Reap: An Ancient Marvel
(Mar 24 '07)
"On closer inspection, however, enormous faces started appearing and we could see all of the carved visages in the stone towers"
I arrived in Siam Reap on Friday night. As I stepped out of the airport after receiving my visa from a haughty immigration officer, I was immediately accosted by several motorbike ...
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We left Bangkok
just before the Khmer New Year’s festivities started, which was a good plan,
since the popular way to celebrate involves dumping water on everyone or
shooting them ...
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The airport is very modern, and
impressive but for the odd transgression, like corroded mirrors in the
bathrooms and a stopped-up sink or two. It’s the ...
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The temples of Angkor Wat
(Feb 02 '07)
Independent travel has been great, but after 4 months on the road all the planning and organizing was getting a bit tiresome. We booked an 18-day guided tour that would take us from Bangkok all the ...
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Angkor's Most Incredible Little Museum
(Apr 09 '07)
"The bad pun of the day would be to say that we were "blown away" by the Landmine museum"
After the beaches of Thailand we made our way overland to Cambodia to visit the fabled Angkor Wat. The Angkor ...
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Within the first 15 minutes of our 12 hour bus ride, we fully understood why this bus trip was so highly NOT recommended.
To begin with, we were lucky enough ...
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We got very early (even before the usual Navy reveille) to watch the sun rise over Angkor Wat, which is the only temple out of about 70 in the area that faces west. We arrived ...
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