by Kyra | Aug 3, 2015 | Travel Notes
After our long days of temple-going, we needed some different activities to entertain us at night. On our first night in Siem Reap, we went to the apsara dance show, as mentioned in my previous blog entry. On the second night, we went to the circus!...
by Kyra | Aug 3, 2015 | Travel Notes
The majority of our time in Cambodia was spent visiting the +1,000 year old ancient city and temples of Angkor. Every morning, our friendly and informative tuk-tuk driver, Khan, would drive us about 20 minutes from Siem Reap to Angkor, the ancient and...
by Kyra | Aug 3, 2015 | Travel Notes
Our 6-hour bus journey from Bangkok, Thailand to Siem Reap, Cambodia was the closest I have come to experiencing culture shock on this trip. Because the online ticket purchases were all written in Thai, we needed to go to Mo Chit station the day before to secure our...
by Kyra | Jul 28, 2015 | Travel Notes
Transport There are over 16 million people living in Bangkok, and all of them have somewhere they need to go. They may take their car (at 360% tax on car purchases, you must be WEALTHY), taxi (slow, but cheap and reliable), motorbike taxi (exhilarating...
by Kyra | Jul 26, 2015 | Travel Notes
Early Saturday morning we hopped in the back of a minivan and went a couple hours west of Bangkok to the Amphawa floating market. We weren’t sure what to expect, but our stomachs were pleased to find a bunch of long-tail canal boats cooking freshly...
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