Paradise found! Of interest today was a massive Indian wedding at the resort - about 300 guests from India all accommodated at the resort, 3 days of parties eating drinking and music, wedding ceremony on the beach, grooms arrives on an elephant, bride arrives on a flower covered boat pushed across the pool by a couple of drowning resort staff etc etc. No expense spared and all paid for by the brides father estimated cost A$0.5 mill but apparently the presents gi...

Woke up at 9am in paradise! What more is there to say! This resort is perfect in everyway and the pool meanders past our doorstep from the deck This is our chill out home away from home - it's even better than last time because we need a relax after 4 wonderful weeks of touring around Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia Blogs will be short from now on - too busy doing nothing!

7.30am departure today for the long drive to Bangkok from Battambang Retraced our steps a bit till we reached the border at about 10am. We think the night in Battambang is a deliberate change to the tour to maximize the input to Cambodia because it used to go from Siem Reap to Bangkok direct To summarize Cambodia as a country it is hard to see how it is going to redevelop quickly - corruption at the highest levels, minimal long term foreign investment, high i...

Departure today at 9.30am for Battambang the rice bowl of Cambodia Visited Angkor Artisans on the way out is Siem Reap and saw some very skilful artists doing silk painting, wood carving, stone carving etc - high quality products. It is a coop training centre for rural young adults to give them a craft skill they can use to earn money back in their home villages to try and reduce the deruralization of Cambodia caused by young adults moving into the cities withou...

Off at 5.30am for the sunrise at Angkor Wat Bit of an anticlimax but Angkor Wat itself certainly made up for it A massive temple with incredible features, towers,rock carvings etc We have seen a number of World Heritage sites in all our travels but this probably takes the cake Spent 2 hours wandering around with our guide Thy whose knowledge of his country is extensive Back to the hotel for breakfast then off to Tonle Sap Lake for a "cruise" to the floating ...