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The Angkor Temples and Battambang
Blog: Kieron Clark - 21 July 2009
How many pigs can you get on the back of a motorcycle? The answer, it seems, is three. At least, that’s the largest number of porkers that we saw being given a spin around the back roads of Cambodia. Recently slaughtered and stacked neatly behind the driver, their legs swayed loosely each time the vehicle [...]
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In search of the real Cambodia
Blog: round the world - the other way - 19 July 2009
IMG_0446 Originally uploaded by littlesaint_uk During our time in Vietnam we heard a lot about what it was like to travel around Cambodia – most of it negative. Undeterred by these reports we decided to go and see for … Continue reading →
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The Temples of Angkor: Day 2, Angkor Wat & Bayon
Blog: barnz2k : Vegan Nomad - 7 July 2009
Day 2 was our planned BIG day, starting with sunrise at Angkor Wat, and a full day tour of the central temples on the Big and Little Loop. We got up around 4.15am (how I don’t know) and met a different Tuk Tuk driver, as our guy from day 1 was unfortunately already booked! There were [...]
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The Temples of Angkor: Day One
Blog: barnz2k : Vegan Nomad - 7 July 2009
Ian and I were joined by a Canadian girl from the hostel (totally forgotten her name!) and after buying our 3-day passes we headed out for our first Angkor Temple action! On the way, we got these Cambodian snacks called Krolan – sticky rice with coconut and red bean, fire roasted inside bamboo! I thought [...]
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Siem Reap and the Temples of Angkor Plan
Blog: barnz2k : Vegan Nomad - 6 July 2009
Basically the only reason people come to Siem Reap (and for some Cambodia in general) is to visit Angkor Wat – the World’s Largest Single Religious Monument – and the surrounding temples, over 1,000 of them! And wat a sight they are The temples of Angkor are almost an antithesis to the sights [...]
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Much Ado about Malaria
Blog: barnz2k : Vegan Nomad - 6 July 2009
I hate tablets. Pills. Vaccines. Drugs. They are expensive, have bad side effects, are full of crap I really don’t want in my body (both chemical and animal derived), almost certainly tested on animals, treat symptoms rather than the cause, and in many cases are simply ineffective! On my first big RTW trip, I had [...]
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Angkor with children
Blog: Oh, the places you'll go! - 26 June 2009
Exploring the temples of Angkor with young children can be challenging. But it’s also rewarding to see these wonders through your child’s eyes, as Angela Savage reveals. I first visited Siem Reap and the surrounding temples in 1992. Back then, the United Nations was running Cambodia, civil war was still raging in the countryside, and there [...]
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Siem Reap
Blog: By Way of the World - 17 April 2009
Angkor Wat is an enormous temple complex built by the Khmer civilization between the 8th and 13th centuries. The Khmer Empire at its height claimed virtually all of present-day Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and parts of Thailand. The main temple, located near the town of Siem Reap, a few hours north of present-day capital Phnom Penh, is the largest religious structure in the world. Angkor Wat is a symbol of pride for a people that have endured enormous amounts of hardship and struggle.
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Angkor Wat (re)visited
Blog: Oh, the places you'll go! - 13 November 2008
Almost 16 years to the day since our first visit, Andrew and I returned last weekend to the temples of Angkor. This time we our daughter Natasha, Roo’s mother Judie and his sister Barbara in tow. While Tash has more foreign visas in her passport than she’s had birthdays, Roo’s mum and sister had arrived in [...]
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Siem Reap and Ankgor Wat
Blog: Rice and Rock Concerts - 10 May 2008
How does a traveller make the journey from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap, around 300km north. Fly? Booked out. Boat? Dry season, lake too low. Bus? Forget about it, after the amount of travel we’d done already we were not spending six or seven hours on a bus, that and Steve was suffering from a vicious hangover (they get really bad over here!) Motorbike? Steve would probably fallen off from the aforementioned illness. No, we splashed out and got driven up in a car to ourselves. A fairly interesting journey ...
