Siem Reap Day 02

Hi hi!

after visiting the temples in the early morning, we are now at Khmer Kitchen for lunch.

Address: The alley between Bar Street and Psar Chas

Price: less than US$10

Try: Pumpkin fried with pork, Vegetarian curry (i dun really like this but it was recommended elsewhere), Amok fish


1230pm: we took a tuk-tuk to the Floating Village after our lunch.

Floating Village (Chong Kneas being the most popular one) at Tonle Sap Lake.

Price: US$15 per person

Chong Kneas attracts the most visitors from Siem Reap probably because it's the closest. The trip took about 2 hours.

This is not highly recommended by me. Seriously. The lake was quite similar to the Chao Praya river in Bangkok and the one in Ho Chi Minh. Polluted. Dirty, muddy, brown, no fishes to see.

All you get to see is that the village is seriously floating on the lake and not docked by the sides. So u have those rubber tyres underneathe the houses! Something different. But altogether i think if u have the spare time then you could put it in your itinery.

Plus the ride out is very long and tideous. Road is bumpy and dusty. Hot and dry. NO shade whatsoever. And you really get to see how the locals' living conditions, a vast contrast to singaporean lifestyle. Be it even if u stayed in a 2-3 HDB room , once u see what these people are living, you know tat your current living homes are a lap of luxury compared to theirs.

The souvenir shop (floating one too) was quite boring as well. Nothing special from the ones on mainland.

Above from left to right: our boatman, boats to fishing village, our boatman again doing his padding and lastly wj...haha enjoying our ride as we are the only ones on the boat, all to ourselves.

Above: Ahren, that' s the floating school: beigey coloured one is the classroom, the blue one is the playcourt and as you can see, it's a floating sporting court for children to have their PE lessons!!!

Above

the first one is the "supermart" or the grocery store...the second one is just a normal floating house, third one is children in tubs!!!

ritey, that's me waiting by our tuktuk, cos our driver has disappeared!!! so we are waiting for him to come back..sheesh. Blardee hot. Anyway since we ended our floating village trip really early than expected, we decided to go back to our hotels to wash up, rest before we head down to the next stop. WE WERE DUSTY MAN.

Last stop for the day:

430pm: Sunset at Bakheng hills.

Best to leave early as it can get pretty crowded. Lots of people come here to watch the sunset which is probably about 630pm. But the tuktuk will stop u at the bottom of the hill. So you will need about say half an hour to climb up the hill and then climb up the temple.

Quite romantic but erm, tons of people ...so in the end, not so romantic afterall. i had many nice photos of the sunset but at the bottom edge of the photo had so many people's heads!!!!

Some sunset views....




after which, wj and i hurridly climbed down the hills before the sun really set as we wanted to avoid the crowds.

~DINNER TIME!!!~

hungry man....

to be continued!