Siem Reap, Cambodia

Its hard to believe that we are already packed to leave Siem Reap and making way to Hanoi, Vietnam. So far the current theme of our travels is that everytime we go somewhere new it becomes "our favourite place." I suppose that a good thing though!
Our time in Cambodia was short but amazing. We could not get over how much we loved the city, the people, the food, and the attractions. Nothing against Thailand (because we really loved it there too) but the people in Cambodia seemed to be more sincere and welcoming.
Briana and I spent three nights and four days in Siem Reap. We visited the ancient ruins of the old city of Angkor Wat, where we toured many ancient temples and other such buildings. If you are unfimiliar with Angkor Wat I highly suggest you wikipedia it or something because it is beyond interesting and hard to believe that such an ancient civilization was capable of so much.

Bri and I in a tuk-tuk on our way to the night market

Scooters are the all purpose vehicles over here. This one is the family car model

This is called the Dr. Fish pedicure. You stick your feet into this pool of fish and they eat off all your dead skin

we inspected to make sure there were no parihanas

it takes tickling to a whole new level

the local tuk tuk super hero

in front of the moat the surrounds the Angkor Wat temple

In front of Angkor Wat temple

Gates to the ancient city

In front of the Jungle temple where they filmed Tomb Rader

Bri hurt her toe again :( I think she is finally going to watch where she is walking

This 500+ year old tree died then another one grew arround it. Way to cool!

The next day we went to a town called Kampong Phluk, otherwise known as the flooded city. I don't think either one of us have ever seen anything like this including anything I have seen on the Discovery or National Geographic channel. We took a long “Tuk Tuk”ride which is just a name for a carriage towed by a scooter to this remote port. From there we hopped on a boat which drove us for half an hour through flooded plains which were very aesthetically stimulating until we reached the flooded village of Kampong Phluk. In this village there are no roads, side walks, or dry grounds of any kind. The only way to get from point A to point B is to boat or swim. With such restrictions on a town you would not expect there to be many people however, this village was made up of 3000 people and had everything from houses, elementary and secondary schools, hotel (not that I would want to stay there) and restaurants. It was really quite something. After boating through the village, we got off at a restaurant, where we then hopped on to another boat this time being powered by to woman who took us to through the flooded forest. Unfortunately all the pictures from the actual village were taken from Briana's camera. I will update this blog with some of those photos in a day or so, so check in again there to see photos from the village!

some houses

The guy let me drive !

through the flooded forest

thig guy kept good company

floating cattle ranch

Unfortunately I have to go, as our flight to Vietnam is in 2 hours. So I will leave you to enjoy these pictures in the mean time and I will update this post as soon as possible!




Here are more pics from Kampong Phluk!