We had a lot of fun staying in Siem Reap from riding around ancient temples to kicking back to some very cheap/free beers at night.

We hired bikes to visit the local sites which included the famous Angkor Wat and its surrounding temples in various stages of ruin and rebuild. We also rode out to a village that is floating on the Mekong River but when we got there it looked like such a production line of tourists piling out of buses and scrambling onto big boats that left one after another that we were no longer interested in joining in. Instead, we did ride along the river side as far as we could to get a taste for the whole thing.

Siem Reap itself is a thriving tourist haven with everything surrounding two main streets, Pub Street and The Alley. Pub Street is, as you could have guessed, full of pubs, loud music, flashing lights and 50c pints of beer on tap. The Alley is a little more tame and full of "top end" restaurants where you could pay as much as $9 for a meal. As you can imagine, we enjoyed the cheap beers but chose to eat around the corner where mains were a much more reasonable $1.50 each. Surrounding these two streets are night markets, produce markets and the ever present tuk tuk drivers.