The Roluos Group temples

In the morning we visited three smaller Angkorian temples that we had not visited on our trip in 2009. These temples form part of the Roluos Group, which are spread out over the former site of theもっと詳しく
In the morning we visited three smaller Angkorian temples that we had not visited on our trip in 2009. These temples form part of the Roluos Group, which are spread out over the former site of theもっと詳しく
In the afternoon, we visited the excellent Angkor National Museum. The galleries were beautiful and the artifacts were generally very well labeled, plus we bought the excellent audio guide. The museumもっと詳しく
We spent Christmas Eve revisiting two of the Angkor temples we saw in 2009. The first was the massive (140 acre) complex of Preah Khan (“Sacred Sword“ in Khmer), which was built in the 12thもっと詳しく
On the way back to the hotel from the temples we stopped at a memorial to the Vietnamese soldiers who died in the war against the Khmer Rouge in 1975. The tiled structure in the background containsもっと詳しく
We spent Christmas Eve with Voss and Todd, who had arrived the day before from their motorcycle trip through Vietnam, and Chanda and Tean, who drove up from Phnom Penh. We had a very nice dinner at aもっと詳しく
We spent Christmas morning with Voss and Todd visiting Angkor Thom and Ta Prohm. We hired a guide through the hotel, but he wasn’t that great, mainly due to his mediocre English. We had thoughtもっと詳しく
Todd and Voss decided to head back to their hotel after lunch, so we continued on to Angkor Wat without them.
Angkor Wat is the most famous of the many temples spread out over an area of 400 squareもっと詳しく
Today we headed out again in the tuk tuk with Mr. Phorn on a longer journey from Siem Reap.
First we visited the site of Kbal Spean, which was used by the Khmer as a hill retreat in the mid-eleventhもっと詳しく