Wat Oulam down the road from the palace and museum Wat Ounalom was big yet I only discovered it when I saw it online tourist research and went in search. It was 'round the corner' from where I ate most nights, had looked for hotels (in fact, that may be how I discovered it!) . …
Category: Cambodia
10th Century Angkor Wat
Here at Siem Reap for a week, hotel with pool and air con (although it stopped working last night), here to visit Angkor Wat and other temple ruins from 11th-15th century. Meeting Patrick at the hotel, we chatted as travellers do for a couple if hours, and he advised me not to go straight …
Group dinner in Siem Reap
Patrick was a handy guy to know, and Monica too who helped him become a great companion, one of those, like Monica too, who enrich your travelling on a stop over! "Up At 4am tomorrow for sunrise at Angkor Wat! Another fun night with the other travellers in Siem Reap! Patrick and Monica ate grasshoppers …
Meet ups around the world!
Siem Reap was hot in the daytime, warm at night and always busy and bustling. About a 30 minute walk from the hostel, I eventually found my way which Patrick tested me on as we walked back, because I'd said I always got lost and rarely able to get my bearings easily wherever I travelled! …
Discovering Siem Reap
Much more than just the city to visit Angkor Wat ... This, for me, is what travelling is about - meeting people, making connections, making new friends and contacts and learning about other cultures. And here I certainly have!! Some people make an impression for different reasons, some you bond with, have a deeper connection …
Tonle Sap boat trip to Siem Reap
It was a new way to travel for me here, and one again discovered on researching the internet for ideas and transport information. It wasn’t cheap but OK, and probably easier than the roads and buses! It was a long day and so hot, on a noisy, smoky boat with other tourists but we did …
Pol Pot & Tueol Seng
Tueol Seng Prison, Phnom Penn A prison of horrors the world sadly knew of but never stopped. My guide whose family and he suffered under this regime I had heard of these places, the tyrannical dictator Pol Pot and his regime, when I was in my teens and it was going on or just over. …
Travelling Siem Reap ..
This, for me, is what travelling is about - meeting people, making connections, making new friends and contacts and learning about other cultures. And here I certainly have!! Some people make an impression for different reasons, some you bond with, have a deeper connection with, others just in passing but all have an impact on …
Volunteering…Touch a Life
Patrick introduced me to Monica from France, who was here volunteering in a children's charity, Touch A Life, and she took both him on the Saturday to also help out, feeding the children and families in the water-borne villages at the edge of the city, and then me the Monday for a day in the …
Cambodia Siem Reap Angkor Wat complex
Here at Siem Reap for a week, hotel with pool and air con (although it stopped working last night), here to visit Angkor Wat and other temple ruins from 11th-15th century. Meeting Patrick at the hotel, we chatted as travellers do for a couple if hours, and he advised me not to go straight to …
