Gracy Bee

Cambodia 14 & 15 Mar 08

Posted on July 26th, 2008 by GracyBee.
Categories: Places, Travel.

Cambodia 14 & 15 Mar 08- ‘NU-A’ day

WE decided not to go visit the temples though we have one more day ticket allowance. Juz dun wanna spend $ on transport to see the same structure in different place. And we were also quite tired from the 2 days ultra intensive temple visiting and walking.

SO……..we decided to NUa in the hotel. We zzzz late and decide to explore the town later in the afternoon when the sun rays are less glaring.

 Here’s some interesting sights.

Black market for petrol,  seen this everywhere. Initially I
tot what kind of drink is this! DUH

OH! So familiar and yet so different!

Oh…..

Gasp..

They ’sell’ the mobile phone service like public phone

Another nua day.  Surprisingly I felt very down not because I’m homesick. But rather I felt dreaded  - very dreaded to go back to work, despite looking forward to see my colleagues and friends back home. That was a strange feeling.

We decided to finalise our shopping for souvenir today. We visited the night market juz round the corner of our hotel and trying to get some local products. But they don seem to sell any local products and very expensive souvenirs. We managed to find some souveirs and back to the hotel. Feeling unusually sad

16 Mar 08

Our flight is at 7am, and so we need to set off in wee hours of the morning. We hired a tuk tuk driver to take us to the airport. YEAH, a tuk tuk! It was a refreshing ride, when the roads are not yet busy with traffic. Cool and peaceful and not so dusty.

After checking in, we hang around taking photos then we proceed to the departure hall after paying our airport tax.

The aircraft that is taking us back to Spore

Woosh! Up we go!

End Journey trip

Finally my wish to go Cambodia has completed. Get to know how the people live, and also get to see the poorer side of them. Despite that, I’m pleased to be able to see the famous AngKor Wat with my darling. Thanks baby

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Cambodia 13 Mar 08

Posted on July 19th, 2008 by GracyBee.
Categories: Places, Travel.

Cambodia 13 Mar 08 — HOT! HOT (AGAIN!!!)

Visiting more temples today! We wanted our driver to be the same as yesterday and yes, we got it after some arrangement by the hotel. 

It shall be a short journey compared to yesterday. Yesterday was juz ……too……. muuuch…..walking…..and sunburnt~

These are the temples we visited…….. 

1. Pre Rup

From the top

The remains of the corridor - arrgh!

 2. Banteay Sei

The mini version of Angkor Wat

If you know my height, you will know how nice I fit into this

3. East Mebon

Do you find this familiar?

YEAH! After seeing so many of the temples’ photos, you may realise that all temples look abt the same!! That was our sentiments after seeing temples after temples that, we almost get temple-phobia. The only thing that is nice in this temple, is the elephant……..haha

4. Ta Som

Yet another temple of the same pattern~

The beauty of ruins

5. Neak Pean

The ‘reservoir’

I’m pretty impressed with this as I didn’t expect to see such monument. I thought it would be another temple. Yet, this is an ancient hydraulic project by the royals!! Didn’t know that they are already starting this long long time ago! Pity we visited this place in the dry season, if it is the wet season, it shall fill up with water. It would have been a beautiful sight.

6 Preah Khan

The entrance

The corridor is darn long and the door get shorter as you go deeper….they say is a sign

of respect to the deities as you need to bow as you walk through the door

I’m starting to get intrigued with all these stone carvings

7. Prasat Kravan

Very plain huh

 I was disappointed to see such a plain temple entrance though I’m pretty tired to see temples. However, there are surprises held inside the tower. The carvings no doubt took my breath away

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We were happy when the journey finally ended. The temples were breathtaking, but too much of it can be bad! Never so glad to go back hotel to have a nice and hot dinner and shower and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

End of the day

Not too bad. Though getting tired of temples, there are little details that still took our breath away. Felt sad sometimes to see how badly the temples are ruined. Perhaps that means the lack of funds to support the restoration. It must have been magnificent during its hey day nearly 600 years ago.

Comparing these ancient monuments with Egyptians one, Cambodian one are smaller and finer in details wherea Egyptian is larger and not so much on details. Nonetheless, seeing these has make take hats off these people who had helped built.

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