Tag: Cambodia

  • Phnom Penh

    I’m in a bar making the most of the wifi yet again, I am with the Cambodian president of the football federation, and a couple of fellers from Hertfordshire who are making the most of five jars of Sangria. One of them I met on the boat the other day, he’s a breath of fresh air with that foul mouthed British whit that leaves a vew raised eyebrows around the table. I was gently coerced into making a free website for the Cambodian Football Federation, I don’t mind, they don’t have two pennies and apparently even have to pay TV stations around here to broadcast matches so they need a punt, I might as well help spread the word.

    Tomorrow I am off to Vietnam, apparently the internet connections are faster and the food is better, but I have enjoyed my stay around here. I’ll come back and have a better look around, but for now I’m motoring.

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  • From Baphuon to Phnom Penh

    The Baphuon is a temple inside Angkor Thom that is not fully open to the general public because it is still being built. Or re-built should I say, I was lucky to be given a guided tour by Maric, a French architect who has been working on this temple.

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  • Spicies sauce with peantits

    Ok, so I know that if I were to write a menu in Cambodian I’d probably end up with worse gaffs (actually I don’t speak Cambodian so it’d be a very short menu) but we did have a chortle over this one….

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  • Some flowers for Baffy and Isis

    These are what they put on the bed when they have made it in the morning, one each for my girls x

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  • About Asia

    I had the privilege today of being invited into the world of one of the local philanthropists today in Siem Reap. Andy Booth became comfortably enough off by the age of 37 to ‘retire’, but not being of the thumb twiddling sort he has set up a business in Siem Reap that offers quality guided tours in Siem Reap and Angkor Wat.

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  • Golden Banana

     Nope, that’s not my nickname it’s the name of the hotel I have fallen into like a lover into his lovers arms.

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  • Phnom Bakheng

    Ok, so I nipped up Phnom Bakheng which is on top of a hill meaning lovely sunset shots and I’m starting to realise that I have seen only a tiny bit of this place. The map below shows the scale – if the moat in my picture in the previous days post is the moat surrounding Angkor Wat, you can then deduce scale of the whole site itself, it’s huge.

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  • Angkor

    I slept in until the afternoon today as my body seemed to have needed it. A cross between jet lag and the heat takes its toll, but I want to get out to Angkor so I drag my carcass out there for sunset.

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  • To Cambodia

     The train ticket costs 48 Baht to go almost all the way to the Cambodian border. That’s less than a quid – and this morning I managed to get on the train. Hurrah.

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  • The Halifax

    So I get up at 3.30 am because I can’t sleep due to the excitement of it all, then sit in the foyer chatting on MSN to people who are enjoying their Friday night in the UK. I then get a taxi to Hualamphong station to get my train to the Cambodian border.

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