We are having a relaxing day after our excursion yesterday.
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Compliments to the person who “heated up” the sausages. I can only assume that the method used to achieve this was they sat on them.
We found them in Siem Reap!
Oh, How I’ve missed you, you delicious Australian God send!
We need another suitcase…
5 minute walk from our hotel. Great food. Great service. We were in and out there within 50 minutes. Perfect dinner for a knackered day looking at temples in the blazing heat.
I little more expensive that the average restaurant, but the price is reflected in the food. No complaints from us for this meal.
We went for the Beef Lol Lak, and Chicken Amok.
The beef was basically steak in a sauce, with chips, but really well executed. Lovely spin on the on the usual steak and chips you’d get in any steak restaurant. Light yet very filling… still had a Death By Chocolate for dessert, though. I earned it from all the walking I did today.
The Chicken Amok was great too. Can’t say a lot about it as I didn’t have it, but trust us, this restaurant is definitely worth the extra money.
For 2 mains, 2 desserts, 1 cocktail, and a large bottle of water it was only $30.50.
Arguably still cheap!
This is what walking around the temples will do to you.
Total litres of water consumed: 8
Temples visited: 5
Hours in direct 37℃ sunlight: 6
We opted for a tour with a very nice tour guide by the name of Rath Sopheap. He was very informative and funny without being too dry and overloading you with information.
He took us round the temples in a good order because each one was more interesting to look at than the last (with the exception of Phnom Bakheng). In order, we did:
- Angkor Wat
- Ta Prhom
- Bakheng
- Angkor Thom
- Phnom Bakheng
There was a nice Mancunian couple in the same tour group as us. They have been traveling around Asia for a long time and are heading to Australia to work after they have toured Asia.
It was great having another British couple to share our annoyance at the arrogant drunk man in our group who boasted about every aspect of his life. His children are great, he is great, travelled everywhere, retired at 42, likes beer (chuffin’ clearly). I just don’t know how he isn’t a God. Total prink.
We visited the last temple at the top of a hill to watch the sunset. Only 300 people are allowed up there for safety reasons, so our guide dropped us off there earlier than the crowds so we could get a spot.
We were dropped off to go up the hill at 4pm. Sunset is not until 6pm here. I was well aware of the 2 hour gap, but wanted to see the view anyway. Once we’d got to the top, I checked out the view. I was nothing special. You couldn’t see any other temples and it was just greenery.
We all swarmed to the shade and sat on the roasting ground. But after 40 minutes of waiting, we called it day. The pictures of the sunset are not worth it on our opinion.
While sitting waiting for the sunset, this Asian guy next to us was too hot sitting on the stone ground. So he put his straw hat on the ground… he was visibly bracing himself by hovering his bum above it for a few seconds. He then lowered himself on to it and it very audibly crunched and he did not look in a good way according to his face. Once his arse reached the ground and the crunching stopped. People had turned heads and started laughing. ourselves included. Ruined a hat for that. He got up and left 3 minutes later anyway. What a waste of a hat!
The 4 of us (us and Charlotte and Scott the Mancunians) got tuk tuk back to town just before 5pm. Laura and I want straight to the pool after a shower and watched the sunset. We still had to wait 35 minutes for it and were glad we didn’t waste the time up the hill at the temples.
We had a great day. Extremely interesting, but the sunset thing is overrated.
p.s. the drunk man isn’t pictures here and wasn’t with us during any of the temple tours themselves. He just sat getting drunk, talked to dogs, and waited for the next stop. He reminded me of one of my uncles… I wonder if he thinks the earth is flat…
This… this isn’t right…
Cambodian chocolate leaves a lot to be desired…still had to eat 3 bits to make sure, though!
Siem Reap is a couple of degrees hotter that Phnom Penh at the moment. That doesn’t sound like much, but I’ll tell you that it is 37-39℃ during the day. Mental!
This place is very tourist oriented, with far more tuk tuks, street food, and restaurants. People will pester you a lot here for business, but you just have to be brutal and say no until they leave you alone. You get used to it and they do expect it anyway.
It’s like an Asian mini-Vegas as it reminds me of the strip there. It has music blaring out and lights everywhere!
I wanted to go here for dinner, but it might have been a tad adventurous for us. We settled on a place that was busy and the menu looked OK. We just got pizzas as it was easy. Couldn’t remember the name of it so I just Google searched it and it is called “Happy Special Pizza”. They did a lot more than pizza, though, so we didn’t know that pizza was their thing.
Sitting there starving, our food took 40 minutes to come. This place is a pub that serves food, and we were the only ones eating as far as we could see. The pizzas arrived, and they looked great, but we’re nothing special, in all honesty. Not terrible in any way, just not a decent pizza.
The bill was only $18 including a cocktail and a large bottle of water, so it was fine for the price.
After dinner we went to the night Market to have a gander. Basically, it’s endless amounts of tat, with added gumph. And they just don’t leave you alone. Mildly infuriating, but ignoring them is yet only way to deal with it.
As it happens, I left my favourite sunglasses on the bus (gutted when I realised! I was having such a relaxing time in the pool at the time too) on the way here so I had to find a half-decent pair to use for going to the temples tomorrow. Got some “Ray Bans” for $5 haggled down from $8. Rubbish but they’ll do. I’ll never get a pair like my favorite ones again. I’ll pull through.
I’m glad we started the trip off in Phnom Penh, as it is a generally a nicer, less touristy place.
Water we got with dinner tonight. If I ever need to ask for this in a shop, I won’t be able to keep a straight face.
The hotel was lovely. The staff were very welcoming and got us settled in our room within 10 minutes. They explained were we were in relation to the main areas of town. Showed us placed of interest to have a look at, or where we could get food.
This place has 2 pools. One at the front and one at the back near the breakfast/dinner area and bar.
The whole place is enclosed so you don’t see or hear any traffic.
One say we had lunch at the poolside. I just got a chicken and bacon club sandwich. This sandwich was fantastic! It was more than enough food and came with a pound of chips. You won’t be disappointed by the food, and the goes for breakfast too.
Lovely room. Air con was very much needed. We had a mosquito net on our bed too.
9 Reb points
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(1 deducted because the wi-fi was sometimes annoying)
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