Banteay Srei Temple

After leaving Kbal Spean, we drove by tuk tuk to the ruins of Banteay Srei Temple, which is on the way back to Siem Reap. Banteay Srei is the most elaborately decorated of all Angkor’s monuments, Czytaj więcej
After leaving Kbal Spean, we drove by tuk tuk to the ruins of Banteay Srei Temple, which is on the way back to Siem Reap. Banteay Srei is the most elaborately decorated of all Angkor’s monuments, Czytaj więcej
In the morning we went back to Angkor Thom to visit complexes that we did not go to on Christmas Day.
We started with the imposing Baphuon, the eleventh-century state-temple of Udayadityavarman II. Czytaj więcej
Craig and I had our last breakfast in Siem Reap this morning before hitting the road for Preah Vihear. I had my usual rice noodle soup with a delicious broth and Craig had a nice omelette.
We took a Czytaj więcej
After a roadside lunch near Preah Vihear, we drove a couple hours south to another set of Angkor ruins called Koh Ker.
Koh Ker was briefly capital of the Angkorian empire in the 10th century. The Czytaj więcej
We hired car and driver for the day and spent the morning driving about 1 1/2 hours to Prasat Preah Vihear, an ancient Angkor temple (and now a World Heritage Site) located in a dramatic mountaintop Czytaj więcej
After a few days exploring several (but by no means all!) of the major Angkor temples, we headed east to the fairly small town of Sen Monourom, the capital of Mondulkiri Province. After a crowded, Czytaj więcej
Craig and I made a 2-day visit to the Mondulkiri Project, a great organization not too far from where we were staying in Sen Monoroum. The project is an NGO that rescues elephants from farming and Czytaj więcej
Let’s start with the night before! We and a couple from NZ were the only guests at the project camp that night. We had a nice dinner featuring a traditional soup cooked in a bamboo tube over a Czytaj więcej
Today we took the ferry back over to Kratie town, which has a nice sized open market and a few small hotels and restaurants along the river and further inland. We hired a tuk tuk driver to take us on Czytaj więcej
Kratie (also spelled Kracheh) is the capital of a province of the same name in northeastern Cambodia. We were there from January 4-7.
The minivan ride from Sen Monorom to Kratie was about 6 hours. We Czytaj więcej