My eBid Cap Trip to Laos & Cambodia!

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So glad everybody is enjoying the ride so far! (as I am)

This post is especially for deanosaur.

The European Guesthouse Phumi Kantuot in Siem Reap Cambodia x 4 pix

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Warning - boring content - for some? Mostly Orchids

These pix are for my benefit (hope you like em too) & are mostly orchids from a mixture of locations during the trip so far!
As I said to bro - If it wasn't for sniffer dogs - my luggage would be chocca! (ie. full)










Street sellers stock


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More Orchids








Drool drool:

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I love orchids. I had them in my wedding bouquet

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Siem Reap Night Markets & Relaxing!

Hello fellow Simians.
It is going to take me a while to put up the photos from Angkor Wat etc so here shortly will be some pix of the local night markets.
We are a bit over the whole T-shirt and tourist stuff scene so Ken had the fish foot-nibbling Spa treatment and Des had a 30 minute back massage.
Add to this the USD $0.50 draft Angkor beer schooners, dodging of scooters, cheap eats & noisy bars and it's a good way to spend some time before heading back to your digs (via a USD $1.00 Tuk Tuk ride) for a well earned rest.

Night Market

Great name for a street

I want one in my shed

Stalls

Ditto

Sil caught trying to leave without paying

Is shown the finer points of towel origami

Is this where you keep your wallet madam?

OK OK I'll pay, I'll pay!

Whew - I need dinner after that.


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Siem Reap continued:

Bro on a diet (liquid?)

Visits the official Scottish High Commission

Followed by piranha feeding

Now has to buy slippers 2 sizes smaller

Is magically drawn to a 1 ltr. JW Red label at $16.40 US

Meanwhile, back at the hotel - & still refusing to pay for her dinner!


Some people - Tsk tsk,tsk!

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This post is especially for deanosaur.

The European Guesthouse Phumi Kantuot in Siem Reap Cambodia x 4 pix

Thanks for that . I think that has to be the same place, albeit with quite a few updates. I remember the Guest House being surprised by my arrival... not for the fact that I was covered head to toe in red dirt, or for the fact that I had blood running down my left arm - all of that was how most people arrived, bleeding and covered in dirt. But my arrival time meant that I had come overland from somewhere other than Phnom Penh and on checking my passport they could see that I had crossed into Cambodia from the Poipet border - which was officially closed and had been for years...

I see your brother and sister are resting up before the experience of a lifetime...

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Thanks for that . I think that has to be the same place, albeit with quite a few updates. I remember the Guest House being surprised by my arrival... not for the fact that I was covered head to toe in red dirt, or for the fact that I had blood running down my left arm - all of that was how most people arrived, bleeding and covered in dirt. But my arrival time meant that I had come overland from somewhere other than Phnom Penh and on checking my passport they could see that I had crossed into Cambodia from the Poipet border - which was officially closed and had been for years...

I see your brother and sister are resting up before the experience of a lifetime...

No worries - you made it, that's the main thing!

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Angkor Wat

Hello again.
Angkor Wat is a massive, ancient World Heritage Site located only 5 or 6 kilometers from Siem Reap. It was built in the early 12th Century as a Hindu 'Temple City' (this being the translation of the words Angor Wat).
Very approximately 100 years later it was reconstituted as a Buddhist center and so it remains today.
There is so much history attached to both this and the other nearby structures that I won't insult anyone by pretending to know much about it all. Look it up on-line, it's fascinating.
I have to say it is a hugely impressive site and very few other places in the world would be as affecting.
We took 314 photos here (and many more at the other nearby locations) so we can only hope the few photos here give you a taste of the majesty of it all.
Pix of Angkor Thom, including Bayon with the huge faces of Avalokiteshvara, and the vine-covered Ta Prohm will be put up later.












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Angkor Wat continued:












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