Our last few days in Bangkok haven't been the most productive. We saw two more movies which puts us at 4 movies in 7 days in Bangkok over three visits. It's not that Bangkok isn't interesting, it's that we crave English media. Basically, we tied up loose ends and got ourselves somewhat organized for Japan. We picked up our suits (and we look damn good!). We bought our railpasses and booked our hostels. We finally made it to the Grand Palace (the...

So, our subscription to this site has run out. Have no fear! We can't update the site anymore, but you can still have access to it. From now on we will be posting to: http://coteselig.blogspot.com/ We wanted to be able to keep sharing our adventures with you right up until the painful end... m&j

We left Siem Reap on Tuesday for Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. The trip, supposed to take 6 hours, took the mandatory +2 hours (8 in total) that we are used to with travelling in the developing world. It was an interesting ride as we got two rides within Siem Reap just to catch the bus to leave for PP. We even got to watch an American guy flip out and make an absolute ass of himself. Priceless. We got into PP around midday and returned to the hotel where...

Day two at the Angkor Temples: We got up for the sunrise at the Angkor Wat. Sadly, it was cloudy so we didn't get the magnificent photos we hoped for. In fact, I was expecting to see God that morning, needless to say, I was a little disappointed when s/he didn't make a cameo appearance. On the plus side, we were up before the throngs on tour groups showed up so we visited several temples with being the only people around. It was a serene and wonderful ex...

Today we went to Angkor Wat with a couple that we met on our epic trip into Cambodia. Angkor is a series of temples built about 1000 years ago that were unknown to the world until teh French "discovered" them in the late 1800s. They were covered by the jungle and no one really understood how huge the site was. Now there is a 27-km road that surrounds the dozens of temples. The most well-known is the site's namesake: Angkor Wat. We decided that we w...