Ailsa has challenged us again to come up with some images from our travels of street markets. I’ve always loved the colour and vibrancy of street markets and the variety of what’s on offer. Some markets may only offer produce but many offer a huge choice of everything a household could possibly need and more [...]
Saturday 06.03we were rudely awakened at 5.15am by the wedding music again. After an excellent breakfast at 6.30 of fresh fruit, fresh orange juice and two boiled eggs with brown bread, we left just after 7am and drove to Chong Khneas to take a boat to Tonle Sap (boat tickets cost 10USD each). There were [...]
The following day we got up at 6am so that we could get showered and ready to leave at 7am. We would have been woken at 6.15am even if we hadn’t chosen to make an early start because very loud music started for a wedding nearby. Apparently the earlier and noisier the music the more [...]
The next day I got up promptly at 4am when the alarm went off, got dressed and went in search of tea and coffee for us both. We met up with our guide and driver and set off at 5am, it was still pitch black. We drove to Angkor Wat to see the dawn and [...]
Wednesday 03.03 We arrived in Siem Reap at 12.35. Siem Reap airport must have been designed by the people who design Bangkokair’s airports for it was well designed and attractive. There was minimal hassle in getting our visas and we easily found our tuk-tuk driver. The drive into Siem Reap, although less than 10km, was [...]
On our last day we visited the Royal Palace, which bears more than a passing resemblance to Bangkok’s royal palace, and the National Museum. The architecture is very similar to that of Thailand – Cambodia and Thailand were part of the same country in days gone by so that is perhaps not surprising. However, the [...]
We had to get up early this morning because John had telephoned last night to say that we could join in the cookery class today. The three of us took a tuk-tuk to the Frizz where we were joined by some of John’s students from the NataRaj yoga centre (they are former sex traffic workers [...]
For our second day we took a drive into the countryside to visit the hilltop pagoda at Phnom Chisor, apparently a good introduction to Khmer architecture if you hadn’t yet seen the glory of Angkor Wat, and the Angkorian temple of Ta Prohm at Tonle Bati (I personally think this was a rather generous description [...]
Cambodia is a poverty-stricken country both in terms of economy and loss of human life during the Khmer Rouge genocides of the late 1970’s. Today the country is struggling to get back on its feet with the help of many NGO’s and foreign aid agencies. Tourism is bringing much needed money into the country and [...]
This year the Chinese New Year fell on St Valentine’s day giving the consumer market a double whammy of things to celebrate and bargains to be had. In Bangkok it was feted as being the day of Luck and Joy with encouragement in the form of advertising to go out and spend money everywhere. Many [...]
