Articles tagged with "cambodia"
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Posted on: WhatATrip | 2008-07-14 16:21:07
900-year-old Preah Vihear temple on Cambodian border
On July 8 in Quebec City, Canada, UNESCO, (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) announced 27 new additions to the organization’s list of cultural and natural
Posted on: Further Wanderings | 2008-07-12 08:34:41
The Angkor ruins are a HUGE series of buildings (mostly Hindu/Buddhist temples)constructed between the 9th and 15th centuries AD. They were built by the Khmers when they were at the height of their power and their empire encompassed most of southeast As
Posted on: Further Wanderings | 2008-07-09 02:04:55
Following our surprisingly simple journey into the country, and a very pleasant night in Battambang, we woke up nice and early to catch a bus to Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital.
When I'd visited Cambodia about 3.5 years before the roads in Cambodia rang
Posted on: Further Wanderings | 2008-07-04 05:42:12
A quick entry just to get us up to date:
We left Chittagong at 14:35, with the only hitch being a minor disagreement with our autorickshaw driver about exactly where he'd agreed to take us and for how much.
Chittagong harbour from the air
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Posted on: myrainasia | 2008-05-23 04:27:56
This is still the shorthand version and, believe me, you all missed a lot!
Went from Siem Reap to Battambang where I took my first all day motorbike tour with a really nice guide who told me bits and pieces of his life story throughout the day. I hav
Posted on: THE ODYSSEY | 2008-03-18 09:16:50
greetings, dear readers, from hanoi. in case you never knew, hanoi rock - so much so that a heavy metal band named themselves this very thing, "hanoi rocks". hanoi is in northern vietnam. it rained here today, the first rain i've seen since the first of f
Posted on: Honeymoon Around The World | 2008-02-20 02:24:00
We debated and debated during our travels through Laos whether or not we should go to Cambodia. Before leaving the U.S. way back in Aug., we were dead set on going, but once we arrived in southeast Asia, many other travels told us to skip the country-
Posted on: Barry Backpacks Around the World | 2008-01-28 22:12:50
Due to an afternoon bus departure, I had a morning to kill in Kratie. To that end I went back to the bookshop where I ...
Posted on: Traveling here and there, without a spare.... | 2008-01-21 00:24:19
It is impossible to visit Cambodia without seeing and experiencing the sad aftermath of the 20th century civil war which culminated in the genocidal rule ...
Posted on: Traveling here and there, without a spare.... | 2008-01-18 12:33:23
We arrived to Siem Reap early in the morning and were overjoyed to find that we could stay in a very nice guest house for ...
Posted on: Barry Backpacks Around the World | 2008-01-18 06:53:47
I caught a morning bus to Kep and got dropped off at the boat docks for the trip to Koh Tonsay. I found a man ...
Posted on: Barry Backpacks Around the World | 2008-01-12 03:37:28
I walked outside at the appointed time to catch my ride to the boat dock for the trip to Battambang. My ride wasn't quite what ...
Posted on: At Home in the World | 2008-01-07 08:33:03
A Floating Village on Lake Tonle Sap, Cambodia
I first saw it from the air as we approached Siem Reap, Cambodia. B'loom. The familiar muffled chime ...
Posted on: Barry Backpacks Around the World | 2008-01-04 03:39:02
After my first day of temple exploring, I was hungry and decided to try some of the food stalls around the market. They run about ...
Posted on: Barry Backpacks Around the World | 2008-01-03 04:29:35
I woke at 4:15 am on New Year's Eve so that I could catch my train to Cambodia and finally got to bed 24 hours ...
Posted on: The Offside | 2007-12-29 14:00:47
Things to read as you love and cherish your Blackwater Christmas card:
Good god, Carles Puyol is bald! (Goal.com)
That high altitude ruling of FIFA's? Still full of holes. (Reuters Soccer Blog)
The 20 best clubs at the close of 2007. (SI.com) ...
Posted on: Cindy and John's Adventures | 2007-12-15 22:31:41
We started our final day at Banteay Kdei. For some reason we didn't go through the whole thing the first time through and we liked ...
Posted on: Cindy and John's Adventures | 2007-12-15 22:11:49
Bayon. The Lonely Planet was right in saying it looked like a pile of rubble until you get close to it and saw the magnificence ...
Posted on: Cindy and John's Adventures | 2007-12-15 22:03:16
I can't believe we decided to get on the bikes today. But we figured if we didn't at least get on them for a little ...
Posted on: Cindy and John's Adventures | 2007-12-15 21:51:17
So today we rented bicycles. We were so happy to be on bicycles. They were a bit shady bicycles but they had brakes. And 2 ...
Posted on: Cindy and John's Adventures | 2007-12-15 21:07:07
So, since we had the 7-day pass we decided to use it. Armed with our trusty can-opener teethed tuk-tuk driver, we went 2 hours outside ...
Posted on: Cindy and John's Adventures | 2007-12-14 22:31:47
So we arranged with a tuk-tuk driver the night before for a 6 am pick-up at our guesthouse. Well, our tuk-tuk driver came; along with ...
Posted on: Cindy and John's Adventures | 2007-12-14 22:10:34
We were here! Siem Reap! Closest city to Angkor Wat!
We stayed at this guesthouse pretty close to where all the bars/restaurants were called ...
Posted on: Cindy and John's Adventures | 2007-12-14 22:01:34
In Phnom Penh - we didn't do much; hit the internet cafe; hit a couple more Wats; went to the Central Market (which was huge) ...
Posted on: Cindy and John's Adventures | 2007-12-14 21:51:41
Our guesthouse had the most comfortable bed. I mean, maybe our standards have gone down the toilet but we've never slept so well. ...
Posted on: Cindy and John's Adventures | 2007-12-14 21:47:01
Okay, I really hate that term 3rd world, but if the shoe fits...
We kind of started things out with typical fashion. We slept in ...
Posted on: Wanderings: A Travel Journal | 2007-12-12 02:48:35
The incomparable Ted Chang, who I think has now seen every place among the 21 finalists for the ‘New 7 Wonders’ competition held earlier ...
Posted on: Circumspencing the Globe | 2007-11-26 07:55:49
Determined to squeeze in as many sites as possible, my brother Daniel and I took a plane from Thailand to the Kingdom of Cambodia on ...
Posted on: The Tranquilo Traveler | 2007-09-20 07:29:25
Check out the remarkable collection of photos of The Ten Most Amazing Temples in the World (via Neatorama.com). The collection is exclusively Buddhist and Hindu ...
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2007-09-19 06:58:38
It is ironic that people who suffer from the worst oppression seem to be the most able to thrive and "find themselves and their calling," ...
