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Just a short visit in Angkor Wat, a little sorry but James still feels lucky to visit Angkor temples in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

My last night here in Siem Reap before flying out to Bang Kok tomorrow – it’s been all that I could have hoped for in a short visit, one that I luckily was able to squeeze in at the last minute! Goes to show you that as much as you want to plan the itinerary in advance, it’s always good to have some space for places you didn’t quite think of.

Spent the morning and afternoon seeing Angkor Wat (the largest religious building in the world, and one of the Wonders of the World…for good reason), and some of the temples of Angkor Thom, one of the largest of the Khmer cities and likely its capital until the 17th century.

Bas relief detail

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This 3- days cycling tour brings travelers to explore Siem Reap in Cambodia, not only its highlighted Angkor Complex, but also small local villages, markets, pagodas, to have an opportunity to interact with local passers-by and immerse in Cambodian cultures.

Upon arrival in Siem Reap, travelers transfer to hotel in Siem Riep for check-in. The rest of the day is free to explore Siem Reap, the gateway to the impressive Angkor Wat which is located 7km south of Siem Reap. With its many bars, café’s and restaurants, Siem Reap is a bustling town that relies on the tourism industry and has all the amenities travelers need when travelers travel.

Cycling Angkor Temples, Cambodia

Second day, travelers start exploring Angkor Wat by bike. Angkor Wat is one of the biggest religious monuments in the world and represents the Khmer heritage. Its stunning base relief, massive towers and huge entrance way will simply awe travelers in every sense.

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Peter used to visit Angkor three times. In this entry, he told his last visit and how Angkor’s changing

Angkor Wat

My first visit to Angkor was in 1995. It was the year before the coupe of the two prime ministers but after a long period the Khmer Rouge had controlled the land and had brought the country into a state of chaos, turmoil and fear. I had arrived in Phnom Penh by flight from Bangkok. At the time I was told it was the only safe way to come to Cambodia, although I learned that the overland route from Vietnam was supposedly open too.

Phnom Penh was a surprisingly interesting and relaxed city at the time, especially considering the hectic previous years. I had come at the right moment; it was festival days with dragon boat races at the Mekong.

But I had not come for the dragon boats, this was just the cream on the pie, so to say. I had come to learn more about the recent and not so recent history of Cambodia.

Cambodia has such a history that no one in the world can ignore. The pictures of Angkor Wat had always made a huge impression on me and now it was possible to visit them.

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Christopher Parkin told his interest when traveling around Angkor temples.

September 15th 2008

Stare at the sun

Let me start this off like I always do…short bus ride…tuk tuk drivers and hotel offers…we know where we are going…so leave us alone…get our room…done. Now the fun begins.

Well the first day was not much fun… We had some planning and some business to tend to so it was spent mostly on searching around all the travel offices pricing out the best flights and buses. After a quick bite to eat we were off to bed because the 2nd day was going to be a long one.

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This entry is about Galacticnick’s visit around Angkor temples with his impression, especially in the children vendors.

May 30th 2008

Rise and shine, Angkor
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Alone at dawn standing in the company of two hundred and sixteen faces of Jayavarman/Avalokiteshvara (depending on which legend you believe in) almost brought a tear to my eye. Good times were spent chilling on the window ledge watching the ebb and flow of package tourists making a fool of themselves with the gargantuan gnarly roots. Sunrise at Sras Srang must be the most underrated attraction. Angkor Wat, on the other hand, was underwhelming. Never mind, though, because the real stars of Angkor were the children.

As soon as I sat my ass down, I was hit on by a bevy of sweet young things. I was the centre of attention. Everyone wanted a piece of this prime meat. I was the royalty. And I’m lovin’ it.

“Where you come from?”

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Thenewextrememimi ‘s  impression about the sunrise and sunset at Angkor temples

December 29, 2007

Angkor Wat sunrise

It’s 5AM and still pitch black when I walk across the bridge into Angkor’s Wat’s gates, the stars reflecting in the waterway below me. The outlines of the temple spires rise ominously over me as I step into the structure’s shelter. Out of the darkness, a great Buddha statue appears, swathed in bright orange cloth.
I make my way down to the edge of a long square pool that leads all the way to the main temple, and sit down. Slowly, tourists straggle in and fill out the area. Locals are selling coffee, tea and renting chairs. We wait. The sun rises in 2 hours.

I had flown into Siem Reap the evening before, and motored into town. Siem Reap is a gorgeous little town, calmer, cleaner and more genteel-feeling than Phnom Penh, if also more upscale and touristy.
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Just simply, Sharon and Jacques told us their tour in Angkor Wat, Siem Riep.

July 21st, 2007

Angkor Wat is simply amazing. It’s unlike any ruins that I have visited before. Huge towering citadels surrounded by dense jungle convey a real mystery. The largest citadel is about 3km across surrounded by a huge moat where the course of a river was diverted to form the moat. Smiling Buddha faces adorn many of the temples that are carved into huge stone columns. One temple, Angkor Tom, has more than 30 of these pillars with Buddha all staring silently into the jungle. Since these were made between the 9th-13th centuries, a lot of hard work went into them.

One of the temples was deliberately left with huge trees growing over portions of the ruins. This is where Tomb Raider was filmed and it’s easy to see where they got their inspiration from. For people traveling to this part of the worlds, its well worth it.

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“A great way to end a great city, eating delicious local food under the shelter of a tuk-tuk in the Cambodian rain.”

Mar 31 ‘07

With our brains jumbled from the ridiculously bumpy ride, we finally arrived right after sundown in Siem Reap. It must have been after looking at about 5 posh art-deco hotels later that we realized, sadly, that they were as beautiful and expensive as they looked and way out of our budget. $11 hotel, here we come!Following our “lose your expectations” travel rule of thumb, we were not even that shaken up to come back to our $11  hotel/room /guesthouse that we still haven’t figured out the name of, to have all of our things from our bags strewn all over the place. Thinking, at first, that we had been robbed (Ah! In a $11 hotel?! No security? You don’t say…) by possibly the cleanest thief as he/she had hung up one of my shirts on a hanger on the door, we were happy to find out that all our valuables were safely in the room. While we were out on the town, there had been some sort of pipe burst that flooded our room, soaking all of our stuff and the the guy working there took the liberty to remove everything from our bags and put it all over the place to dry in front of a fan. Now that’s service , even for an $11 no-name  room, although we did have to get our clothes cleaned, as they smelled a bit like the toilet and they were sure to come back a tinge more yellow than when we turned our laundry bag in. “Lose your expectations” and you’ll only ever be “pleasantly surprised.” Those art-deco hotels were looking mighty fine at this point.

Incense for good luck inside Angkor Wat.

But I digress… Before we even checked into our room, as we’re standing outside in the pitch black attempting to pay our driver, who did we run into… but our long lost friends Kelly and Ryan! The last time we saw them was in Hoi An and we weren’t expecting to see them again, as our paths parted long ago. So, of course we had to celebrate our reunion on Pub Street in the heart of Siem Reap. Pub Street is a lot of fun. There’s live music (lots of Tracy Chapman and Phil Collins, I noticed), some great little restaurants and a pretty happening night club, always dominated by “ladies of the night” here in Southeast Asia. A Swiss couple that was with us on our boat tour in Halong Bay was also in Siem Reap, so they joined the reunion fiasco.

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Ann told her experience and feeling in Angkor temples as well as in Siem Reap, Cambodia when she took part in an eighteen day travel through Asia with her husband.
Feb 02  07

Reflection pool of Angkor Wat at sunrise

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 way through Cambodia and Vietnam with the luxury of nearly everything being planned for us.

In Bangkok we met up with our group of 11 fellow travelers, as well as our guide and a new trainee. As it turns out, everyone has been great and our group is getting along quite nicely.
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