Thursday, July 12, 2007

Siem Reap - Day 1

Upon arrival at Siem Reap airport, we were greeted by a representative from the hotel which I’ve booked. He then fetched us to the hotel to check-in.


I’ve read from forums saying that the air is very dusty in SR. Therefore, I’ve prepared mask for us to use there. Here comes the Ninjas from Malaysia. Yeehahh!!


Below are some of the snapshots taken along the way to our hotel.


After checking in, the tuk-tuk driver fetched us for lunch. We'd requested the driver to fetch us to someplace where we can eat cambodian food at a cheap price. He suggested his cousin's place. So we had Khmer food for lunch.

Khmer Curry @ $4
Angkor Beer @ $2.50
After lunch, he fetched us to the old market to do a bit of shopping because there's no where else to go. We did not go to Tonle Sap because of the weather. It was very very hot. So we just walked around the market.
After an hour walking aimlessly, we decided to go somewhere where there's air condition and to relax a bit. Guess what will that be? Massage of course! :) We went to try their traditional massage - Khmer Massage @ $6 per hour. Not too bad.


The massage was superb... After the massage, we went to meet up with our driver again and then off we went to purchase tickets to visit the temples the next day. The entrance fee is $20 per person for 1 day. With these tickets, we were able to catch the sunset at one of the temples for free. So off we went to our first temple in this trip. I can't really remember the name of this temple but it's situated on a hill top and we had to walk up for about 20 minutes.



We didn't manage to catch the sun set because the sun was blocked by the clouds.. So we just sat there for a while and take pictures. :)


After that, we went for dinner. We went to have fried rice at a very cheap price near the pub street. One plate was $0.6 and the place is clean. The food was quite tasty too. What's next then? Drinking again. There's not much to do besides hanging out at the pub street and get a few beers.


There goes my first day at Siem Reap. To be continued......

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