Wednesday, April 16, 2008

11 to 14 apr 2008, siem reap

motor ride to the bus station


Ta Prohm

mobile sugar cane drink

Bayon


care for an elephant ride?
Angkor Temples


performers outside a pharmacy celebrating the New Year.
market
a bigggg 3D advertisment
but thanks to this man, he stopped his car to help fix our taxi
our taxi broke down...
finally arrived at Cambodia

thai-cambodia border at chong chom didnt ask for "stamp" fee too but the taxi to siem reap was overpriced. they wanted us to pay usd 100 for the taxi where travelers only paid usd 30 for one recently. a dutch couple paid 2000b (usd 65) for the taxi and we paid usd 30 to share one with them. it took us 3 hours to bring the price down. the taxi driver told us to keep mum about it. sigh...

the ride to siem reap was bumpy and dusty. there were no road signs on the way. we arrived in siem reap with a sore throat probably bcos of the crackers that we ate and the dry air in the taxi.

in siem reap, there were many japanese and koreans shops and guesthouses. we checked into one of the japanese guest house bcos of the cheap price. only usd 2 a night for a dormitory bed.

we spent one day cycling to and around the Angkor Temples. a day's rental of a bicycle is USD 2. although the road was bumpy and we were under the mercy of the scorching sun, it was great fun to make that effort. 3 litres of water, some sweet drinks and bread were sufficient to last us the whole journey which started at 6.30 am and finished around 3pm.

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