May 2008
7 posts
“After 33 hours of continuous travel, we’re home.”
“Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand - Same Same, but different.”
One (Last) Night in Bangkok
Tonight is our last night in Bangok (and for the trip). We have had a wonderful time. There has been so much to see and experience, we’ll never forget it. Today we walked to the Golden Mount and Wat Benchamabophit. Then went took a boat to China town to see another temple with the world’s largest solid gold buddha (5.5 tons), then took another boat back to the hotel for some rest. ...
Bangkok, Thailand
This is our second day in Bangkok, Thailand. We arrived late yesterday afternoon, after spending most of the day in a bus and a van. We took a large bus to the Cambodia-Thailand border (took almost 4 hours) and went through the Cambodia departure immigration and walked across to the Thai border. After getting our passports stamped, we walked to a small restaurant for lunch, and to use the ATM to...
Cambodia
We are getting ready to leave Cambodia. It is almost 6am and we are eating breakfast at the hotel getting ready for an 8 hour bus trip to Bangkok, Thailand. The keyboard here is hard to use. We will write more later, just wanted to let everyone know we are doing great. The Angkor Wat temple ruins were amazing- so many and so big. The food has been great and really good prices. All of the food is...
Arrived in Siem Reap
We’re using an internet station in a Western Union office in Siem Reap, Cambodia (were we just cashed Traveler’s Cheques), so this won’t be a long update. Yesterday, we spent the morning with the tour group touring the museum of the prison and the place were the Khmer Rouge took over and many thousands of Cambodians were killed 1975-1979. Our local guide was excellent, although...