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Showing posts with label siam reap. Show all posts

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Thank Vishnu there are no trains in Cambodia


Only buses.  Crappy ones.  And it was impossible to get on the overnight bus to Siam Reap (the city adjacent the temples at Angkor), since there are only two companies in town that travel to Siam Reap after 1pm.  So I had to wait overnight and take the next day's bus (a twelve person minivan whose trunk fell open and spilled everyone's bags as it pulled away from my hotel).  At least the tour guide coincidentally sitting next to me spoke a little English, and pointed out a few things to me, like the crops burning in the fields to clean them before the next season, or the massive townhouses outside of Siam Reap, which the guide claimed were owned by people making money off of Western investment into the tourism industry in Siam Reap.  I arrived at the New Angkorland hotel after sundown, and called to set up a tuk tuk ride for a dawn trek to the temples.  Angkor Wat tomorrow morning.