Cambodia

[Marmite the Dog]

^ I forgot.

[madcow]

Great photos Terry ! I wouldnt have considered going there if i hadnt seen these .

On my to see list now , Thanks mate !

[zipcode]

Thanks for sharing the pictures.

I am hoping to visit next Spring, but not sure if my parents (in their 70s) could manage it.

Also, the family might have a very difficult time with the panhandling (as would I).

[terry57]

^
Don't worry about taking your parents as my mate has taken his 82 year old mum twice.

All you have to do is hire a taxi and they can drive around in air con comfort admiring the ruins but not trying to climb anything.

Its all sorted with toilets and small restaurants at different places so it really is very easy for older people, so do them a big favor and let them see one of the great wonders of the world.

Age is no reason not to go.

Enjoy your trip.

[jasonbalmer]

I've been to Angkor a couple of times and loved it. I thought your pictures did a great job of capturing the beauty and majesty of the various temples. Thanks for sharing them with us.

[alphagirl]

I am coming to Thailand in November to visit Timber, and I think we should really take a trip to Cambodia while I'm there. It looks so amazing

[9999]

The Broken Bricks in PP is the best chill out bar known to man.

I'll pop in on Sunday if I remember.

These days its the 'Red Fox' on street 136.

[Scottish Gary]

I like this photo as it shows how the Cambodian kiddys have fun in a muddy pool without the aid of western style battery operated toys.

Hope you didn't take that one from behind a bush

[Scottish Gary]

I liked Angkor but it is easy to become all templed out. I found that two days was more than enough.
My driver insisted on taking me to the temples at 5 in the morning for the sunrise camera shot. Unfortunately it was cloudy that morning so the opportunity was gone but its meant to be amazing.

[Baas Babelaas]

I enjoyed it the first time, albeit with friends who wanted to see EVERYTHING, and a tour guide who kept on yapping.

Second time around I went with a friend with little tolerance for crowds, and an affection for all things air-conditioned - we were done in half a day.

I plan on taking my GF in January, who is devotedly Buddhist, and explore the place some more.

Problem is I'm a grumpy geezer (at 36) who also doesn't like crowds and touts.

The highlight of the last visit was gawking at an obese Chinese kid who stumbled over a vine and lay on the ground crying like a .... a .... an obese Chinese kid. Pure Gold!

[JollyRoger]

Never been over to Cambodia is this Angkor all the place has to offer ?

[Scottish Gary]

Never been over to Cambodia is this Angkor all the place has to offer ?

If your interested in genocide and torture you can visit the killing fields and the Tuol Sleng interrogation centre in the capital Phnom Phen. Fascinating place but very sad and thought provoking. If you want more info you can google it.

[JollyRoger]

Never been over to Cambodia is this Angkor all the place has to offer ?

If your interested in genocide and torture you can visit the killing fields and the Tuol Sleng interrogation centre in the capital Phnom Phen. Fascinating place but very sad and thought provoking. If you want more info you can google it.

Thanks Gary but I think Cambodia would not be for me

To be fair I already knew the place was Gary Glitter kind of country so the Angkor would be just about all there is to see for me.

[Scottish Gary]

Never been over to Cambodia is this Angkor all the place has to offer ?

If your interested in genocide and torture you can visit the killing fields and the Tuol Sleng interrogation centre in the capital Phnom Phen. Fascinating place but very sad and thought provoking. If you want more info you can google it.

Thanks Gary but I think Cambodia would not be for me

To be fair I already knew the place was Gary Glitter kind of country so the Angkor would be just about all there is to see for me.

I heard about the Gary Glitter connection as well but I must admit I never saw anything like that the whole time I was in the country. There was loads of hookers but none that could be described as Glitter territory thankfully.

[JollyRoger]

Never been over to Cambodia is this Angkor all the place has to offer ?

If your interested in genocide and torture you can visit the killing fields and the Tuol Sleng interrogation centre in the capital Phnom Phen. Fascinating place but very sad and thought provoking. If you want more info you can google it.

Thanks Gary but I think Cambodia would not be for me

To be fair I already knew the place was Gary Glitter kind of country so the Angkor would be just about all there is to see for me.

I heard about the Gary Glitter connection as well but I must admit I never saw anything like that the whole time I was in the country. There was loads of hookers but none that could be described as Glitter territory thankfully.

Good to hear Gary

Now if there are loads of descent Hookers and an exciting nightlife scene I wish the next bloke that visits the Angkor includes that in his trip.


Cambodia could still worth a visit.

[Phuketrichard]

Never been over to Cambodia is this Angkor all the place has to offer ?

if its "things" your looking for Cambodia holds few
if its a experience and great people, get out of PP an SR

Kep/Kampot are good for a weekend

Kratie for the last Irrawaddy dolphins
Preah vihear

Just hanging out on riverside in PP

[ENT]

^ Agreed.

Lovely people, cheap food and drink,...girls are yum........nothing else much happening there unless you're in with a local family,....or doing archaeology, ...professionally or otherwise.

[SiLeakHunt]

I'd love to go and give it the once over

[wackyjacky]

BKK-REP, $120 (RT) on Cambodia Angkor Air until Xmas. LINK: Home | Cambodia Angkor Air ps: oh yeah, you've got to fly M, T, or W or it goes up $35 (EW).

[terry57]

^
Thanks for that link. Blinding deal that one.

Cheers

[donald36]

Going next week after a 10 year gap, truly one of the great wonders of the world

Can anyone give me a ball park figure for hire of guide and driver for 4 adults

Will we need a minibus

[Phuketrichard]

You don't need a guide;
my suggestion
hire two tuk tuk's (at $15 each) a car wont fit 4 adults comfortably but they run about $25-30
and buy the book ."Ancient Angkor" from one of the kids for $3-5

Show up after 4:30 and get a free sunset an buy ur pass for the ext day. $20 /day or $40 for a 3 days pass

Dont forget take a day off an do out to the fishing village on stilts on the lake Kampong Phluk, Richard Reitman Photography | Kampong Phluk High and low tide

[Phuketrichard]

BKK-REP, $120 (RT) on Cambodia Angkor Air until Xmas. LINK: Home | Cambodia Angkor Air ps: oh yeah, you've got to fly M, T, or W or it goes up $35 (EW).

fuck thats CHEAP




air asia is 5,200 by via DMK

[9999]

Now if there are loads of descent Hookers and an exciting nightlife scene I wish the next bloke that visits the Angkor includes that in his trip.

There defo is in PP. The Glitter scene is defo not in your face I stayed a week in red light area and saw none of it. Plenty of hookers and a few decent nightclubs. People were saying how good the english was in Cambo but I didn't see it in the girlie bars. One night I ended up chatting in Thai with a few girls as it was our best mediam.

Next thing they start blasting out all the crappy Thai pop songs, calling me Mr Thai, and trying to make my experience as Thai as possible. Did they not realise I was on holidays from the foking place?

[cdnski12]

I toured Angkor Wat in 2010. It truly is amazing. As an Engineer, I can appreciate the immense amount of work that went into the foundation preparations of the main site. It is built in a 6m deep swamp. Having the mathematical ability to predict the correct settlement rates, was way beyond what Europeans could do at the time 800-1100 AD. Professional Geotechnical Engineers would have extreme difficulty working in such an unstable environment today, even with all our sophisticated computing ability. The main foundation stone slabs have hardly moved a mm in 1000 years. Yes the upper temples have collapsed; but that is due to weathering, not an unstable foundation (in most cases). Angkor Wat had a population of near 1 Million in 900 AD. It was by far the biggest city in the world, at the height of the Khmer Empire. The collapse of the Hydraulic Water System, led to the demise of the area. Too much money & effort went into the construction projects and not enough money was used for the Empire's Defensive Army. But it lasted for nearly 400 years ... which is a pretty good run for any empire.