Thursday, December 30, 2010

Journaling from Khao San

December 16
I signed up for a tour to go to Angkor Wat. Today I spent a whole day going to Siem Reap, a city near Angkor Wat.




This is a boarder between Thailand and Cambodia, but this is like a mutual area and I had to get off the bus and walk for like 400 meter to go to the Cambodian immigration gate with my huge backpack...there are some casinos in this area.
Almost 12 hours drive to Siam Reap. I wouldn't recommend anyone coming to see Angkor Wat if you can afford flying!


Morning market in Cambodia.


What I learned:
- There was a clear different between Thai bus travel service and Cambodians. Thai beated Cambodia big times = I'm not gonna take any Cambodian bus tour....it sucked.

What made me happy:
- price in Cambodia. Super cheap.

December 17th
FINALLY I got to Angkor Wat!
I had a great tour guide Tak who speak Japanese fluently and really enjoyed there.
No need to explain. Just pictures tell everything!

It was just amazing.


December 18th
I did exactly what I did on 16th. Riding a bus for 12 felt nothing anymore haha

December 19th
My relative has lived in Bangkok for 3 years for his business and I met up with him at Siam, a big shopping area in Bangkok.
It was actually my first time meeting him but he was really nice and took care of me very well.
I had fish spa for the first time (thought fish was supposed to be smaller than this...it hurt a little actuallly!)!

And then for dinner we had Thai sukiyaki, at Coca. He ordered in Thai and we had a really good dinner!
Thank you so much Nobuyuki san!!


December20th
I was sick of staying a place with bed bugs so last night I stayed some nice hostel (900 baht I consider it gorgeous).  I stayed there right before they kicked me out and walked around Khao San a bit. Finally it's time to sightsee around the area.
I went to Wat Pho and saw the reclining Buddha.

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