Category: Cambodia

After a day resting by the hotel pool, today we returned to the adventure theme. A bus picked us up at 7:15 and took us to get fitted with harness and helmet. For the next 3 hours, we traversed 10 ziplines through the Angkor park. The gear was all top-notch and the entire enterprise as… Continue reading Flying with the Gibbons

We finished our tour with a ride into the ancient city to visit three major complexes. The first, and most famous, was Angkor Wat, which, aside from the tourists, was as beautiful as it’s known to be. Our guide, who was a uniformed official, explained that it was built on volcanic rock for stability, but… Continue reading Angkor

Cambodia hass definitely been hotter than Vietnam, though that may be because we’ve been on open roads. Long dusty, bumby stretches leave us coated in red and dry of throat. As in Vietnam, people call out ‘hello’ as we ride by, chilren running to wave or touch the foreigner’s hands. They spend their days in… Continue reading Red Dust

The road between Phnom Penh and Siem Reap is always under construction. Apparently the government uses it as a way to get funding from other countries, but most funds go into official’s pockets. The materials used are poor, so by the time the road is finished, work must start again. This meant that we could… Continue reading Temple Blessing