Leaving Singapore at around 6 am and arriving in Siem Reap just after 7 and being met at the airport by our driver and being taken back to our guesthouse in a tuk tuk was an experience and wonderful. Mom's guesthouse was an awesome place to stay (highly recommend it), it was close to town, near the river within walking distance to anything you needed. We were lucky and had a drive on hand for the while time we were there. The cost for him was US$60. He took us anywhere we wanted to go with our grumbling, explained a lot of things to us.
First stop was a floating village...hard to believe these people live on these boats and only go onto land for serious shopping. the have boats that visit them that are like our Four Square back home...they sell anything and everything.
The next morning we went to Angkor Wat...I was not prepared for how huge they actually were and how impressive. We had done some reading about them but this didn't prepare me! The other thing I was not prepared for was the heat...Singapore is hot...but this was in the high 30's. We went to see the sunrise but there was too much cloud.
The floating shop.
young boy filleting fishing
Firewood for the cooking fires
on the boat on our way to the floating village.
looking down a long corridor
The many faces of Bayon
A great view of Angkor Wat
The only bit of sunrise we saw at Angkor WatWe have so many photos of these lovely temples but can only put a few on here for you to see. We wandered around the temples for 3 full days and didn't get to see them all. After spending the days walking around the temples we were pleased to get into town and find a happy hour place to have a drink and quiet meal. Beer was US 50 cents a mug, and cocktails and spirits for under US $2.50. so we made the most of it!
From here we caught the bus to Phenom Pen which took 6 hours including a half for lunch. We decided to stay a bit more upmarket here and were pleased with this decision...the only thing wrong with this was that our river view was of road works being done outside our hotel... I guess you can't get it right all the time.
We visited the Killing Fields and the Genocide Museum and this was so sobering and thoughtful and upsetting that it was a relief to leave it. Although e knew what had gone on it hadn't really hit me as too how much affect it had on the country and people. I guess I have now grown up a bit more.
Eating our Amok Fish, that we had cooked.
Making the spices for Amok Fish - mine had no spices, and Wayne's had chili.
An amazing number of different eggs available at the market.
The supra at The Killing fields
This flower smelt so sweet...the sign says you will pay for your sin by picking a flower.
