Posted by: Sarah on: March 30, 2009
Learning my lessons from crossing the Thai – Cambodian border I got a bus that went straight from Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh/ Saigon. The trip took about 6 hours and meant that the journey was pretty stress free, although it was touch and go at first as I almost didn’t make the bus [...]
Posted by: Sarah on: March 30, 2009
The last bit of our tour was chilling by the beach for a few days. Sihanoukville is Cambodia’s main beach area made up of a couple of beaches including Serendipity beach.
One of our days was spent on a boat cruise round the islands off the mainland for a bit of snorkeling, sunbathing and BBQ action.
The [...]
Posted by: Sarah on: March 28, 2009
Traveling down the coast from Kampong Cham involved a long 9 hour bus journey, which wasn’t too bad until the aircon stopped working on the second bus. Although we did get a chance to get our own back on the bugs by trying tarantula in tarantula city on the way. Apparently they are meant to [...]
Posted by: Sarah on: March 25, 2009
Friday was quite a midly traumatic day by recent standards.
We left Siem Reap early in the morning to travel south to Kampong Cham (apparently the 3rd largest city – although after seeing Battambang (the 2nd largest) we werent expecting much).
The first incident of the day was at one of the breaks in the bus journey. [...]
Posted by: Sarah on: March 22, 2009
We were now in Siem Reap for a couple of days which is where everyone comes to see Angkor Wat – the 8th wonder of the world.
The temples at Angkor are spread out over a 40 mile area round Siem Reap but as we only had a couple of days our time was spent at [...]
Posted by: Sarah on: March 20, 2009
Wednesday we were on the move again, this time by boat. It was a seven hour trip on our own little boat up river to Siem Reap.
Although the boat was small, having it to ourselves was amazing and its such a nicer way to travel than by bus. Especially as this meant that we could [...]
Posted by: Sarah on: March 18, 2009
Monday we took the local bus north to Battembang which is Cambodia’s second largest city – arriving there however you would never have guessed, although it has a nicer feel to it than Phnom Penh.
After a bit of lunch the local moped drivers took us round Battambang on the back of their bikes. My driver [...]
Posted by: Sarah on: March 17, 2009
In April 1975 Pol Pot’s regime the Khmer Rouge defeated the Lon Nol government and took power. During the previous years Cambodia had been dragged into the Vietnam War as the North Vietnamese Army extended the Ho Chi Minh trail into Cambodia and trained a guerrilla group called the Khmer Rouge to help them.
Initially some [...]
Posted by: Sarah on: March 17, 2009
Saturday saw the start of the other tour I organised before I left which is 15 days round Cambodia.
On meeting my group they all seem really nice although there’s not the same bond we had in the last group I was with, but as Cambodia seems to be a lot calmer it probably works out [...]
Posted by: Sarah on: March 16, 2009
This is really the first bit of traveling I’ve done by myself, so it will be a good indication of how the rest of my trip may go. Though the fact that it is Friday the 13th wasnt a good day to start.
It didnt start well. I had to wake up at 5.45 to catch [...]
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