A discovery trip to the Great Gate of Angkor to celebrate +reema bhullar's 25th birthday in early January.
Did you know the name Siem Reap translates literally to the 'Defeat of Siam' - today's Thailand, and refers to the centuries-old conflict between the Siamese and Khmer peoples. Maybe it's because of the old war conflict greatly affected them, Cambodians tend to have this peaceful friendly characteristics, it's like a PEACE NO WAR aura surrounding them. It's a different type of friendliness compared to the Thais.
We loved this peaceful little town albeit it's dusty air and bland taste of Khmer food. Khmer food is neither spicy nor sour, doesn't suits this Missy's taste bud here ;)
And we are very surprised to learn that some of the elder locals can speak French due to the acquisition of Angkor by the French in 1907, jakun us.
For a 5 days 4 nights trip, i only brought USD250 for accomodation + food + drinks + transportation. Not to forget the Angkor temples visitation and an elephant ride up to the mountain to catch the sunset. I was literally trying to find things to buy on the last 2 days as I still have money leftover. The only thing I managed to "forced" myself to buy was some scarfs and handmade notebooks.
Very important tips: DO NOT give money or let the children / young mother carrying baby pull you into convenience store to buy food / milk / slippers for them. They usually sell it back to the store again to get the cash.
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| Our crib - ApsaraCentrepole Hotel, very good service |
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| Happy Pizza - i still feel like puking when i see this photo, it's the green thing with pizza, better off smoking it |
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| Birthday girl looking out to see if there is any hot guys in the jungle |
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| Me just trying to rest my legs and nose coz it's so dusty i sneezed non-stop |
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| The only spot you can capture all 5 towers and the lake into 1 frame |
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| The lost & found Khmer Kingdom temples |
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| Simply simply amazing architectures |
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| Scary shit ride, look how narrow the road uphill is |
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| Sunset at Phnom Bakheng hilltop - need to come up around 330pm 'chop' a good seat and sit under the hot sun and wait |
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| Where we hang out every night |
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| Floating Village - where people bath drink eat shit at the same place |
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| Can't imagine how I could survive in this kind of environment |
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| Women's job - take passenger on the boat around the mangrove area |
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| Selfie on the boat |
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| Reema trying very hard not to rock the boat |
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| And spent the last day by the hotel's gazebo sun-tanning and reading novel |
