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Going home for Chrismas
Get up at 5.30 am to get ready for the taxi. Our flight is at 8.50am and with a short stopover in Abu Dhabi we arrive sound and save at Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands after 18 hours of travelling.
Last day of our trip before flying home
Today was a relexday: we took the public riverboat to the ‘backpackersstreet’ in Bangkok. The trip itself on the boat is already an adventure especially the boatwhistler who is responsable for a save arrival and departure at the pier. in the backpackersstreet (Khao San Road) we had facial cleaning a...
Meeting with friends in Bangkok
The Ibis Riverside hotel in Bangkok offers a great view at the Menam River with the fancy boats passing by. At noon our friends picked us up at the hotel and we went to Phetchaburi to visit the khao-Luang cave with its buddha’s stemming from 1910. While driving back to Bangkok we stoppen for a delic...
Last day in Cambodia and departure by plane to Bangkok
We checked out at our hotel and made a last small tour in Siem Reap before returning to our hotel enjoying the last couple of hours before our flight is supposed to leave for Bangkok, if there are no fights in the air😏 www.bbc.com/news/live/c4g5e1p585qt we arrived sound and save at the airport befo...
Angkor Wat and Apsara dance
Today we visited ‘Angkor Wat’ classified by UNESCO as a World heritage site in 1992: very impressive and for the most part restored. After visiting ‘Angkor Wat’ we visited ‘Wat Bayon’ a few kilometers from Angkor Wat. The whole area is a local heritage site with several smaller and bigger Pagoda’s....
the Phare circus of Siem Reap
The management of the ‘Prince Angkor’ Hotel was aware of my birthday - today December 7 - and prepared two surprises surprises which were offered after our short bike city tour. A very nice decoration on my bed and a very tasteful fruit pie. We ended the day with a very spectacular performance of th...
Siem Reap
We explored Siem Reap which is a rather modern city with lots of tourists facilitated by nice and modern hotels and restaurants.
The Sangker River between Battambang and Siem Reap
This morning we took a boat from Battambang to Siem Reap which give us at the same time and an excellent option to see a little bit of Cambodian life at the Riverside and the northern part of the the Sangker River take the Tonlé Sap Lake just before arriving at Siem Reap.
Discovering the area of Battambang with a motorbike
We rented a motorbike for being independent in discovering the area. Driving a motorbike can be a challenge when you are not used in driving motorbike: I my case I managed to use the break and at the main time the glashandel, which is not a smart combination. We headed for the bambootrain: a touris...
Bus from Phnom Penh to Battambang
Today we had a very comforable bus from Phnom Penh to Battambang which brought us in about 4 hours to our hotel ‘Cambana Riverside’ where we took a rest at the swimmingpool. In the eventing we had diner in restaurant ‘Jaan Bai’, a Kmer restaurant with social purposes for orphans.
Killing fields of Cheoung Ek near Phnom Penh
These killing fields are about 15km outside The citycentre of Phnom Penh. This area used to be a Chinese cemetary before 1975. From the start of the regime of Pol Pot - the leader of the Kmer rouge - the area was used for killing innocent Cambodian civilians and ‘burry’ them in of of the more then 1...
Phnom Penh
From hotel Plantation - a former French gouvernmental building - we explored Phnom Penh. We visited the beautiful buildings of the Royal palace, although it was almost not allowed to visit the interior. After visiting the Royal Palace we took a TukTuk to the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. In this forme...
From Chau Doc by boat to Phnom Penh
To day we left Chau Doc by speedboat to Phnom Penh. We had to cross the Vietnamese - Cambodian border which took about 2 hours for all passengers on the boat. The trip it self was about 4 hours. Phnom Penh is a very big and impressive city too where you can pay in dollars or in the local currency ‘R...
From Chau Doc by bike to Sam mountain
Today we went by bike from the city center of Chau Doc to Sam Mountain, a place with several pagodes. We travelled about 15 km through the rural area in the Chau Doc region, which was quite interesting. At Sam Mountain we took the funicular to go to the top and enjoy the view.
Chau Doc
This morning we left Phu Quoc with the speedboat (catamaran) and we arrived at Ha Tien on the continent of Vietnam. From Here we took a taxi To Chau Doc along the Cambodian border. Chau Doc is a big city situated in the Mekong Delta and more particular at the crosspoint of the Chau Doc River and Hau...